PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl
Tears, laughter, catharsis, disgust, outrage. All of these responses could be part of the energy coming off the audience at Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Tony Award winner and 2002 nominee for Best Actress Mercedes Ruehl says responses are so intense that weekly "talkbacks" were created for actors and audience. The trick of a Q&A with an audience is not giving all the secrets away.