Meg Tilly to Star in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at Blue Ridge Rep

According to the Times Colonist, Meg Tilly is set to make her stage return with the Blue Bridge Repertory production of WHO'S AFRAID OF Virginia Woolf as Martha. The show will play the McPherson Playhouse July 5 - 17.

Tilly commented: "There are many great female roles and many great plays, but there is something about Martha that just grabs me by the throat. She's a chance to explore a road untaken. I love her passion, her humour, how deeply she loves and hates. I love the humanness of her -her lost, sad vulnerability and her blazing fierceness."

She added, "I seem to fluctuate wildly between giddy excitement at finally getting to fulfil this lifelong dream and absolute terror.Sometimes I'm thrilled. Feel quite proud of myself for taking this step, even though it terrifies me. [I] know that I won't be looking back when I am in my 80s, saying, 'I wish I had done some theatre.' Other times I get worried, don't want to let everyone involved down."

Tilly played a prostitute in a second season episode of Hill Street Blues before she appeared in films such as The Big Chill and Psycho II before her acclaimed title role in Agnes of God, for which she received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe. Tilly later appeared in Valmont, The Two Jakes with Jack Nicholson and Leaving Normal, as well as the 1993 horror film Body Snatchers.

Tilly portrayed the role of the Blessed Mother, a Pope-like figure in the Caprica episode "Unvanquished."

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