Excerpts from Theater Reviews - Elizabeth Baron
'...These are the play's most complex characters, enhanced by Daren Kelly and Elizabeth Baron's knowing performances.'
--- Alvin Klein, The New York Times – Radium Girls
‘... Elizabeth Baron shines as Ophelia, Polonius’ daughter and Hamlet’s beloved. She is absolutely convincing in her madness, focused, angry and intense.’
---Marianne Evett – The Plain Dealer – Hamlet
‘… Liz Baron’s earthy alto on a melancholy Portuguese ballad is a show-stopper…’
--- Mark Collins, The Daily Camera – A Pu-Pu Platter of Love
'Baron, whose performance stands out throughout the play, is especially good, too, on a throbbing rock song in the first act where she first lays down a challenge to Priscilla.'
--- Mark Collins, The Daily Camera – Priscilla: A Rock and Roll Ride Through Teenage Hell
‘…Elizabeth Baron is possessed by the dramatic vulnerability and pipes that made Edith Piaf an international treasure...’
--- Kitty Montgomery, Daily Freeman – Dance With Me
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"...Elizabeth Baron plays all the characters in LaLa Theater's new version of "Agamemnon," Aeschylus' story of a Greek king poisoned by his own fateful decision.
Baron doesn't inhabit the eight characters so much as she invites them in and they inhabit her.
Her performance during the nearly two-and-half-hour play is a remarkable display of an actor in full command of her vocal and physical instrument, and with complete access to a rich emotional palate.
Using only a scarf and her own skill, she moves between elegant, flowing, grizzled, clownish and earthy personas with striking precision and nuance. Even though the script sometimes asks much from the audience -- it's Greek tragedy, after all -- Baron's performance is captivating...
Aeschylus wrote "Agamemnon" circa 458 B.C. His dramas were innovative in that they were the first to use more than a single actor on stage.
Interestingly, the fact that Baron is the single actor in LaLa's version brings intimacy to the performance and helps make it accessible...
Baron adds a contemporary edge to several moments. In her version, The Watchman is a wry onlooker, helpless to the whims of those in power, but not without biting commentary...
...Hughes' vivid and direct language, and Baron's clear, pointed delivery makes the description of Ipheginia's death and the devastation Agamemnon's troops brought on Troy jump from the stage..."
Photos by Marcin Mroz
