Most actresses wouldn't dare take on "The Belle of Amherst," the one-woman play about Emily Dickinson that helped make its original star, Julie Harris, a theater legend. But Joely Richardson ("Nip/Tuck," "The Tudors") isn't just any actress.
"I've grown up with greats, being the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave," says Richardson, whose sister is Natasha Richardson and whose aunt Lynn Redgrave.
"Those comparisons are always there, but I just go by the text," she continues. "That's the only thing that guides you. I just read the script and thought it was beautiful."
She'll be reliving the poet's life through Jan. 25 at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre Upstairs. Here are four books this versatile actress read recently and loved.
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
It starts with a 100-year-old woman who's been stuck in a hospital for years. It's about family, love, death . . . Life is difficult, as we all know. Tragic things happen, but there are wonderful surprises we could never even dream about. This is a brutal read, but a ripping yarn.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
I think Winterson's right up there with Virginia Woolf: Her sentences are biting and glorious.This is about her childhood. What a messy, crazy life she had! She had a monstrous relationship with her [adoptive] mother, which I don't relate to: I love my mother very much! The title is what her mother said to her when she found out [Winterson] was gay.
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
When I was rehearsing six days a week, I was so burnt out on my day off I couldn't talk, I just needed to wander. I went to the Strand bookstore and bought a stack of books, including this one. It was a brilliant read about Burroughs' journey back from the brink, and he relates it in such a funny way.
The Gorgeous Nothings by Emily Dickinson
This is a coffee-table book, with copies of all the envelopes and scraps of paper [Dickinson] wrote these phenomenal poems on. It would be like you or I having a grocery list — two pints of milk, and so on — and then this extraordinary poem. To actually see someone's handwriting! I opened this book and just got shivers down my spine.
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