It was so exciting and thrilling, and I thought any country that produced a Stratford was one I wanted to be a part of.” “I saw great actors – Christopher Plummer, Bill Hutt – I could understand Hamlet! A door opened to me. “There was no place like Stratford in the States at all,” Henry said in a 1994 interview. After graduating in 1959, she decided purposefully to pursue a theatre career in Stratford. Henry went on to study at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University.
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That spark was nurtured by her mother, Konnie, a professional musician who sent Henry to Kingswood, a private school outside of Detroit. Henry was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1938.Īccording to information provided by the Festival, Henry’s interest in theatre was sparked by scripts she found in the attic of her grandparents home in Greenville, Mich., where she was living after her parents’ divorce. “Her sense of responsibility to the theatre was so profound that it enabled her to endure pain and face down her terminal disease to complete an astoundingly truthful performance as a dying woman,” Cimolino said. Mamie Zwettler as C (left), Martha Henry as A, Andrew Iles as The Boy, and Lucy Peacock as B in Three Tall Women. Henry’s final appearances were also a testament to the love and respect she had for acting and the stage. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “She was in pain and she was determined to get to the end of it. “She fought so hard to get through that run,” he said. He recalled Thursday presenting flowers to Henry after her final show, describing her as “incandescent” and “luminous.” Henry’s resilience and dedication are among the traits Cimolino said he will remember most. She returned after treatment to take on the role this past season, first using a walker and then, after about a month into the run, finishing her remaining shows in a wheelchair. Henry received her cancer diagnoses not long before the production, originally slated for the 2020 season, was cancelled due to the pandemic, Festival officials said. Her moving performances may have been more inspired by her own circumstances than many audiences realized at the time. In her final show, Henry portrayed a dying woman reflecting on a life’s worth of memories and the happiness, gratification, guilt and regret that accompanied them.
Henry’s death came just 12 days after her final performance in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, directed by life-long friend and colleague Diana Leblanc. “In losing Martha Henry, we have lost the dearest friend, the most inspiring mentor and an unforgettable, original talent.” “Our hearts are shattered,” said Antoni Cimolino, the Festival’s artistic director.
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