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Nobu McCarthy: 1934-2002. (In Memoriam).(Obituary)(Brief Article)

American Theatre,  September, 2002  by Hwang, David Henry

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In 1986 Nobu McCarthy starred in my play As the Crow Flies at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, in a production helmed by the late avant-garde director Reza Abdoh. She was then in her early fifties, struggling with the arthritis that she battled for so much of her later life. Yet I watched her, in rehearsals, tackling Abdoh's stylized movements with an eager and unrestrained playfulness through which deep emotional truths shone.

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Then she would step down from the stage with a joyful and slightly mischievous smile, like a child who had succeeded at some particularly complicated game of ...

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