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Matthew Lombardo's solo-drama about Katharine Hepburn (Cissy Conner), set in her home in Fenwick, Connecticut, examines her life and loves from two different points of view. In Act 1, set in 1938, she's still reeling from a series of film flops, and the fact that movie exhibitors have branded her as box office poison. Act 2 takes place in 1983, at the end of her career, when Warren Beatty was attempting to persuade her to take on her last movie role, and deals with her declining health, the shocking suicide of her brother, and her relations with Spencer Tracy. The piece is largely a ompendium of familiar Hepburn stories, but Lombardo tells them well, and he captures the familiar style and accents of her public persona: cheerfully egocentric and monumentally eccentric, alternating earthy common-sense with movie-star flamboyance. Conner deftly captures her flavor, particularly as the aging Kate in Act 2, complete with the throaty, slightly strangled voice. It's an engaging and skillful performance, which plays on our affection and familiarity with the original.
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