I Will Be Cleopatra

"To those whose only exposure to acting are the films of Hollywood, Zoe Caldwell remains a secret. To those of us, however, who have seen her on the stage - whether in London, Toronto, or New York - she is the essence of theater, her presence so transfixing that the memory of having seen her is emblazoned in the mind forever.". "The daughter of a plumber and a taxi dancer born in Australia at the height of the Great Depression, Caldwell first demonstrated her talents at the age of nine when she appeared on the stage as Slightly Soiled in Peter Pan. Hampered by a mild dyslexia, she felt that…