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When I read \u201cDoubt\u201d, I really did not like Sister Aloysius. When I was offered the role I knew I\u2019d have to do a lot to try to understand this character. As I said before I really disliked her and what she stood for. I began to do my research. I needed to understand what her life was like in this religious order. I had to understand the Catholic Church during this timeframe. I had to understand what it meant to go from Vatican I to Vatican II. How did she become who she is in this play? Where did these ideas she had come from? I took all the clues that were in the play (\u201cThe Givens\u201d- facts) and added them to all the research I was doing. Then I begin to define for myself what her past biography might be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were certain things I learned that were important to me in playing her. First, she knew men. She&#8217;d had a husband who died in the war. So I had to make some decision about her feelings about this husband. It seemed to me that she had married at a normal young age and then he had died doing service for his country. She had no children. So I decided that after his death, instead of marrying somebody else, she felt she wanted to honor him by providing a service herself. The way she chose to do that was to enter the church, give herself to God. Do good works. She talks a lot about \u2018knowing people\u2019. And it&#8217;s not in a good way that she \u2018knows people\u2019. She seen how awful people can be. I assumed some of these people she knew were the priests she had run into who were pedophiles, and the church&#8217;s way of handling these matters over the many years of her service. The play clearly states that if the Monsignor doesn&#8217;t believe the story about the Priest, then it is suppressed. Then maybe they are moved and given a new better position. It&#8217;s also very clear that she has very few friends. Her one good friend is going blind. I came to believe that she understands her job to be the one who frightens the children into compliance. More Vatican I than Vatican II behavior. She has been taught that this is the way to handle these Catholic children. \u2018Spare the rod spoil the child\u2019 philosophy. Her following these instructions the church and her community have given her has caused her to be not liked and very alone. I think she has made her peace with it. Somebody has to do it, protect these children, and she has the strength to undertake it. The only thing Shanley shared with our Vienna cast, (via our director) was the question &#8211; \u201cWhere were the nuns when all this pedophilia was going on?\u201d And he does dedicate the play to the teachers\/nuns he grew up with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the time we had opened the show, instead of hating this character, I completely understood why she did what she did. In order to understand it, I had to walk in her shoes, I had to understand the precepts of her practice. I had to better understand the church and her function within the church. It became very clear that she had no other choice. She saw herself as a strong enough character who could\/would have to handle this matter herself because she knew the church priests in power above her would not deal with it. Even though she wasn&#8217;t absolutely positive about whether he was guilty, that this Priest might be a pedophile, it&#8217;s better to get him out of her church than to risk him damaging the children in her school. She knew the Priest would just be promoted somewhere else. So if he was innocent he&#8217;d be fine. If he was guilty, her greatest concern was that she was passing off the problem to somebody else less capable, maybe, than she of handling it in their school. 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Variety hailed her Amanda Wingfield as:\u00a0She is one of the finest Amanda Wingfields in memory, and can proudly take her place alongside the memorable Amandas in this critic's experience: Helen Hayes, Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris and Maureen Stapleton.\u00a0 Wendy has performed all over the country, at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Virginia Stage, Portland Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, River Arts Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Alliance Theatre, Playmaker's Repertory, and Denver Center Theatre Company, Princeton University Guest artist, among many others. She has worked with such wonderful writer's as J.P. Donleavy, Derek Walcott, Soviet writer Sasha Galin, The Red Clay Rambler's, Theresa Rebeck, and Arthur Miller. Roles include: Yelena (opposite Hal Holbrook) in Uncle Vanya, Lady Croom in Arcadia, May in Fool For Love, Masha in Three Sisters, Andromache in The Greeks, Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Mags in Painting Churches, Maud\/Lin in Cloud Nine, Nadya Lenin in Travesties, Anna in Old Times, Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town, Sasha in Wild Honey, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Mariana in Measure for Measure, and several times in her two favorite's; Roxane in Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac, and Stella in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire. Wendy played Mrs. Chitwood on \u201cThe Guiding Light\u201d. She can be seen on reruns of \u201cLaw &amp; Order\/ L&amp;O\u2019s SVU and C.I\u201d. On PBS in \"Novel Reflections\u201d, and with PBS\/Showtime in \u201cOur Town\u201d. Commercials: Wendy was for several years on Japanese TV as the Mom for General Foods \u201cBlendy\u201d Coffee. Many others inc: for Adidas (Europe) starring Anna Kornikova; Wendy also won an Addy award for Z94's Morning Zoo for her voiceover work. Wendy coaches actors and has taught Master Acting classes, theatre history and the \"Business of the Biz\", at Denison University, UNC-Chapel Hill; The ArtSchool, NC; Northeastern University, Baltimore's School for the Performing Arts, Denver Center Conservatory; Asolo Theatre; Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; among others. She received her BFA in Theatre\/Film at Denison University and her MFA in Acting at the UNC\/Chapel Hill. Wendy\u2019s Great-Great Aunt Elisabeth Risdon and Uncle Brandon Evans were members of the Theatre Guild and worked with Lunt and Fontanne, Helen Hayes, J.B. Shaw, among many others. Elisabeth had a longtime career in Hollywood as well starring along with most of the famous actors of her day.","url":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/author\/barriewilsonwendy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/barriewilsonwendy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}