Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school and then happily stayed on. With credits including Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia and last year’s Old Vic revival of Six Degrees of Separation, Goldberg has landed a 2011 Olivier Award nod for playing not one role but two in Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris’ scabrous comedy about American racial and social fissures. In the first act, set in a suburban Chicago home in 1959, Goldberg plays Betsy, the deaf, pregnant wife of a racist community activist. In the second, set in 2009, she shifts to tough-talking, fully hearing Lindsey, who buys the home and plans renovations that disturb her African-American neighbors. Broadway.com caught up with the young talent to talk awards, niche markets, and making a go of it in London as a non-Brit.
Congratulations on your Olivier nomination! You must be so pleased.
I had no idea any of this was going to happen, so it’s been thrilling. What happened was that I had watched [the Israel-Palestine TV drama] The Promise on TV the ...
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sarah Goldberg on Having Double the Fun as an Olivier Award Nominee in London's Clybourne Park
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