Here's a clip fromYouTube that's fun to watch her tell about Black Pearl. In it she makes a reference to her Dad, who has always been very proud and supportive of his daughter. (Erika is Arnold and Metha Rolfsrud's daughter. Arnold is Halvor's son, who is Erling's brother. Got that? All this proves that even if you have a name that no one can pronounce, you can still make it on a New York stage.)
Here's another link that shows some dialogue in the same play from Erika. She's Susannah, the woman from the Library of Congress in this clip.
Now here's some excerpts from a review of Misalliance by Wilborn Hampton in the New York Times:
“Misalliance” may be one of Shaw’s talkier plays, but it is also a very witty one. The action takes place one spring day at the estate of John Tarleton, a onetime shopkeeper who made his fortune manufacturing underwear. His daughter, Hypatia, is engaged to Bentley (a k a Bunny), the whining milquetoast son of Lord Summerhays, who once asked Hypatia to marry him. Tarleton’s son, Johnny, now runs the family business, while his father goes around England endowing libraries.
In quick succession, three uninvited guests drop in — two quite literally when they crash-land their small plane into the Tarletons’ greenhouse. The pilot, Joey Percival (Michael Brusasco), quickly catches Hypatia’s eye. His co-pilot, Lina Szczepanowska, (Erika Rolfsrud) a Polish trapeze artiste whose family tradition demands that she risk her life at least once a day, catches the eye of all the men. The final guest is an impoverished clerk who is carrying a gun and a picture of his dead mother, a woman who was once the senior Tarleton’s lover.
.....Erika Rolfsrud is fiery as the Polish aviator, and Sean McNall is first-rate as the gunman. Steven Boyer and Dominic Cuskern contribute nice turns as the Summerhayses, son and father.
Bill Clarke’s sets and Liz Covey’s costumes beautifully evoke Edwardian England.
