Listen in as playwright Jennifer Fell Hayes and actor Kate Grimes of Rosemary and Time discuss beginning with a true story before letting the playwright’s imagination take over, mastering the Yorkshire accent, figuring out where in time your play begins, issues of class in the U.K. vs. the U.S., throwing in local turns of phrase, and dealing with issues of “shame and grief and connection and the past and guilt.”
“…having met the two women […] I really was very, very touched by what had happened to them, and promised them I would really try to do the best I could…a truthful play that might say something about the human condition, about love and loss and life, all those major, major themes that we try to wrestle with…”
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Rosemary and Time
written by Jennifer Fell Hayes
directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan
thru February 17, 2018
Paradise Factory Theatre Main Stage
64 E. 4th Street
Manhattan
tickets: $18, available via BrownPaperTickets
photos by Gerry Goodstein