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Article: Julie Harris: a Williamstown `Exile'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1994
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Not many actresses appear in a tryout that's completely sold out
three weeks before its scheduled opening. But such is Julie Harris
who, next week, makes her debut at the Wlliamstown Theatre Festival
in "Exile in Jerusalem," a two-act, two-character play she hopes will
tour and eventually reach off-Broadway. Originally written in Hebrew
by Motti Lerner and performed at the Habima National Theatre in Tel
Aviv five years ago under the title "Else," "Exile" has had
performances in London in 1992 at the National and in Detroit last
year at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre.
"It's a complex and very beautiful play," Harris said in her
papery early-morning whisper during an interview this week, ...