Merle Moores

MO Rep Credits: Margaret (The Philadelphia Story)
                Charwoman, Solicitor ('00 A Christmas Carol)
                Mrs. Baines (Major Barbara)
                Irena Arkadina (The Seagull)
		Stenographer (Machinal)
                Ruth (Later Life)
		Jocasta (Oedipus the King)
	        (The Shadow Box)
                (Hamlet)
	        (Chalk Garden)
	        (Equus)
                (Light Up the Sky)
                (Rosencrantz and Guildenetern Are Dead)

Other Credits: The Unicorn: (An American Daughter)
		            (Angels In America, Parts I and II)
			    (Sisters Rosensweig)
			    (Perfect Ganesh)
			    (Quills)
		      HASF: (Richard III)
			    (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
               New Theatre: (Steel Magnolias)
                            (My Three Angels)
        American Heartland: (The Lion in Winter)
                            (Blithe Spirit)
                            (The Little Foxes)
                            (Cat on a Hot Tim Roof)
                            (How the Other Half Loves)
                            (Whose Life is it Anyway?)
                            (The Unexpected Guest)

Pictures

Merle as Irena comforting her son (Judson Morgan) in the Rep's The Seagull.

My Thoughts

Merle was a wonderful choice for Arkadina in The Seagull. She had just the right combination of frivolity, flippancy, self-centeredness, and absurdity to be an interesting and still believable character. Her "attack" on Trigorin to make him her's again is a perfect illustration of her skills in this role. I applaud any woman (actress or not) who can, while in full dress and petticoat, attack and pin a man to the ground all the while emphatically proclaiming her undying love and need for him. Merle is a shining example of the talented actors we have here in Kansas City.