Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
Meryl Streep Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Streep appeared opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's "Dancing at Lughnasa" (1998), which was entered into the Venice Film Festival in its year of release. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" remarked that "Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career, but the way she simply peers out a window in "Dancing at Lughnasa" ranks with the best. Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze". Later that year, she