So I went through the text, and there’s a lot of exclamation points, which obviously meant those speeches are meant to be heightened.
Veronica reads very stridently, and at first, during rehearsals, I felt she was very shrill all the time.
But as we’ve worked on it, I feel it gets deeper and funnier. LL: After Dave offered it to me, I read the script, and at first, it feels a little stilted. TM: So, what was your reaction when you were approached to do the role of Veronica? Why would I pass up the chance to see such an amazing actress? I know some actors are touchy about seeing other people play their part, but I would have loved to have seen Marcia Gay Harden do it. TM: Did you have the chance to see God of Carnage in New York? And the thing is, as I tell my students, if I were living in Los Angeles or New York, only big A-list stars would get to do these sort of parts, and doing these roles are how an actor gets better. So last year, I played Barbara Fordham in August: Osage County. But now that my daughter is a bit older - she’s 13 - I began to feel less guilty about working at night.
So I did The Clean House and Becky’s New Car. I was concerned about being able to balance single motherhood, full-time teaching, and doing shows at night, and Dave Steakley, the artistic director, was so great about trying to find things I could do in the summer, when I’m not teaching. LAUREN LANE: I moved to Austin in 2002 and I did my first show at ZACH in 2004, which was The Vagina Monologues. THEATERMANIA: Tell me about your history with ZACH? TheaterMania recently spoke to Lane about the role and her work on The Nanny. These days, Lane lives far from Hollywood - in Austin, Texas, where she teaches full-time at Texas State University and works frequently at ZACH Theatre, where she’s currently starring as Veronica Novak in Yasmina Reza’s award-winning comedy God of Carnage. Lauren Lane has had a long, distinguished career on stage and television, although she will forever be known to millions of TV fans as the acerbic C.C.
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