![]() On the stage, it wouldn’t land the same way.” She did it on radio, too, so she was able to give it that low-key delivery that would still have impact. ![]() She does it as if she can barely breathe-the word will not issue forth because the memory is so horrible. When she said ‘handbag,’ her take was very different than anyone else’s. “I heard a BBC recording where Judi Dench played Lady Bracknell. Pedi estimates she’s seen at least four or five Bracknells in London and listened to many more. Also great, and also in London, was David Suchet-“not the prettiest woman in the world, but a formidable Lady Bracknell.” And Brian Bedford “was lovely, bringing that cute little nose and twinkly eyes to Broadway.” “Probably the best was Maggie Smith in London,” she says. Pedi had already put in a lifetime of research on Lady Bracknell.
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