Nancy Diuguid Reds

This is her cameo-appearance playing the artist Jane Heap together with Jack Nicholson playing Eugene O'Neill and Diane Keaton playing Louise Bryant in the movie Reds directed by Warren Beatty

Coincidentally Jane Heap the legendary thinker and publisher and daughter of a mental asylum´s warden and who would become one of Gurdjieff´s key-minds transmitting his ideas throughout the world had her portrait written by Gertrude Stein as well

Jane was her name and Jane her engine

Speaking of engine we must explain the everlasting importance of Nancy Diuguid's ingeniousness

Here is a text published in The Guardian that summarizes her epic existence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/may/28/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Here is an interview where she talks about her work with Jerzy Grotowski with the Royal Court with her invaluable theatre project called Dedel'ingoma Arts Healing which she founded in South Africa and many other issues such as her rape experience in Israel and her support to Sir Ian McKellen during the controversy of his knighthood acceptance

http://books.google.com.br/books?id=7u4bJX7eSp8C&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&...

July 1990 Nancy Diuguid was invited by the British Council to work here in São Paulo-Brazil on a Cole Porter´s musical production and during the auditions she was the one who against all odds picked me out of the crowd and in doing so ignited everything

Indelible memories of Nancy Diuguid and her longtime partner Melanie Chait and their son Desmond

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