Awards:
Obie Award, NY Drama Desk Nomination, The Theatre World Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Two Drama Logue Awards, LA Weekly Award and Bay Critics Circle Nomination
Reviews:
Whoopi Show
"Rounding out the
group is Gordana Rashovich who is drop dead perfect as the status
hungry- Russian maid in the hotel."
Linda Stasi, NY Post
A Shayna Maidel
If Off Broadway were eligible for Tony Awards, the possibilities for nominations would been have greatly expanded including... Gordana Rashovich
Mel Gussow New York Times
"...some of the finest acting in recent
seasons has been inspires by Off Broadway plays: Gordana Rashovich as a
concentration camp survivor in "A SHAYNA MAIDEL."
Mel Gussow, New York
Times
"Gordana Rashovich's performance as the Polish sister is a
marvel."
Sylviane Gold, Wall St. Journal
'Gordana
Rashovich is RIVETING!'
Leida Snow,WINS
'What gives the play even
more resonance are the superb portraits of the two sisters, especially
Gordana Rashovich as Luisa. She gives a haunted and haunting
performance, AMONG THE BEST OF THE YEAR'
Michael Kuchwara,
AP
"Central to the play's success, and a riveting stage presence,
is Gordana Rashovich. Her performance as Luisa will be the performance
to beat in the Spring awards binge."
Larry Ledford, The Monitor
" Gordana Rashovich ... is absolutely the most adept dramatic actress I have admired in some considerable time." Gordon Orlow, WBAU
" The
production at the Westside Arts ... is enhanced by two extraordinary
performances from Ms. Rashovich and Mr.Sparer."
Mimi Kramer, New
Yorker
"Rashovich's Luisa is a STUNNING and relentlessly RIVETING portrayal, at once chilling and compassionate." Fern Seigel, NY Tribune
"Gordana Rashovich has resumed a stunning performance in
this off Broadway story of a family divided by Hitler's Holocaust."
Critics' Choices, Time Magazine
"Weighing in on the comedic side is Gordana Rashovich as the crazy mother who is really more sane than the father." Magg, Variety
Conversations
with My Father
"Eddie's blissfully unassimilated wife, Gusta, who is
enlivened more by the actress Gordana Rashovich's radiant humor and
frantic eyes."
Frank Rich, NY Times
Richard lll
"...by far the most powerful and true of the women in
the production is Gordana Rashovich, whose queenElizabeth alone can
match Thomas. Their Act iV scene, in which Richard proposes to marry
her daughter, after having murdered her sons, proves far and away the
production's most fiery dual..."
Malcolm L. Johnson, Hartford
Courant
Master Class / Best Diva
"...Rashovich was at
once transparent and luminous, reflecting McNally's fleeting brilliance while radiating her own ineffable genius. Her eyes flashing with
penetrating zeal and her every gesture and movement perfectly evoking
Callas's unparalleled acting technique instead of merely imitating it,
Rashovich's rendering of the private, inner Callas also proved sublime.
And when she recalled Maria's years of triumph at La Scala, her
virtuoso performance reached its zenith as she declared that, as Medea,
she "could feel the stones of Epidaurus beneath the floorboards."
Beautifully reconciling devine inspiration with human limitation,
Rashovich's efforts bespoke an artist's unflinching desire to embrace
one's all too frail humanity." Denver Post