Carla Antoun as Frida Kahlo. (Credit: Judith Gauthier)
A raspy voice you might associate with a heavy smoker — though she isn't at all — a powerful physique she describes as "androgynous," and a visceral passion for theater, which she sees as both a "refuge" and a "dream machine," the latter also the name of her company: Carla Antoun immediately defies convention.For several weeks now, the 29-year-old French-Lebanese actress has slipped with striking accuracy into the skin — or rather, the corset and the unibrow — of Frida Kahlo. Beyond a physical resemblance to the Mexican icon, Antoun seems to share her unique intensity and unapologetic eccentricity, qualities that led her, more than 70 years after the artist's death, to embody her in a one-woman show she wrote herself. More like this Jessie Buckley, Khalid Abdalla: When stars in London get on stage...
A raspy voice you might associate with a heavy smoker — though she isn't at all — a powerful physique she describes as "androgynous," and a visceral passion for theater, which she sees as both a "refuge" and a "dream machine," the latter also the name of her company: Carla Antoun immediately defies convention.For several weeks now, the 29-year-old French-Lebanese actress has slipped with striking accuracy into the skin — or rather, the corset and the unibrow — of Frida Kahlo. Beyond a physical resemblance to the Mexican icon, Antoun seems to share her unique intensity and unapologetic eccentricity, qualities that led her, more than 70 years after the artist's death, to embody her in a one-woman show she wrote herself. More like this Jessie Buckley, Khalid Abdalla: When stars in London get...
