“We had two days to do, and she had literally no rehearsal time. Playing the wife/King Lear in Joan Carr-Wiggin’s comedy/drama If I Were You, Marcia Gay Harden proves herself to be more than a capable actor.
Her impassioned half of a cell-phone conversation grabbing the attention of a director during auditions for King Lear, a successful business woman lands the title role (though she was only at the auditions to support an aspiring actress).
