Dancing with Circumstance.

TURKISH-BORN ACTRESS CIGDEM ONAT INFUSES EVERY ROLE WITH AURA AND INTELLECT

THERE WAS A MOMENT EARLY ON IN The Time of the Cuckoo when Cigdem Onat made a promise to the audience without saying a word. In the recent revival of the 1952 Arthur Laurents play at New York's Lincoln Center Theater, Onat played Signora Fioria, the owner of a small pensione in Venice whose clientele seemed to be made up entirely of American tourists looking for love, or at least a bargain in Venetian glass. In the opening scene, the Americans held forth on a variety of subjects while Onat's Fioria sat ...

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