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GLENDA'S ROSE
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Glenda Jackson comes to Broadway in Rose, a British drama by Andrew Davies about a provincial school teacher

Following hard on the heels of Ian McKellen in Amadeus and Jane Lapotaire in Piaf, Broadway is soon to host another British star in another long-running West End hit.

The star is Glenda Jackson and the play is Rose (opening March 26 at the Cort Theatre). In the title role Miss Jackson gives a bravura performance as a provincial school teacher with a half-dead marriage. She moves through a series of usually one-to-one confrontations with relatives (notably Mother), teaching colleagues and other inhabitants of her life, trying to sort herself out in relation to them and, more importantly, in relation to her own image of who and what she ought to be.

Glenda Jackson is one of that quartet of British actresses )the others being Maggie Smith and Vanessa Redgrave and Diana Rigg), who have managed to make themselves stage and screen stars on both sides of the Atlantic. Now rising 45 she is able to look back on 20 years in the business with a sharp objectivity.

"For the first ten years," she says, "I was 99 per cent unemployed. For the last ten, I have been able to plan at least 12 months ahead and always to know where the next script was coming from. I've also been able to do some very serious work in the theatre, such as the Peter Brook Marat/Sade, which first brought me to New York; and some fairly jokey work on film with Walter Matthau and George Segal. So in that sense I've been very fortunate . . . though an actress is never really in control of her own destiny."

"Control" is a word that comes up often in conversation with Glenda Jackson. Why then has she never thought of controlling a theatre company of her own?

"I've thought of it and it simply isn't feasible. People who are already in control of companies such as the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company in Britain aren't about to give up that control easily, and women are still very badly placed in the theatre. When an actress

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