Sophie McIntosh, Nina Goodheart, BT Hayes, & Morgan S. Perry of “Benevolent”

Listen in as Benevolent playwright Sophie McIntosh, director Nina Goodheart, associate director & dramaturg BT Hayes, and actor Morgan S. Perry, discuss wicker basket handling, figuring out what you’re after, the meaning of “soiled shift,” historical blogs, finding the right word, “critical fabulation,” finding your washing style, the importance of intimacy direction, covering as an understudy, and writing past realities back into the narrative.

“…these corners of society that, at the time, were documented in a kind of less than…gracious? …what’s the word…”
“Benevolent?”
“Yeah! A less than benevolent way. […] What is missing from a section of society that was highly oppressed […] A lot of our conversations beyond the physical world of [1917…], a lot of it was about imagining beyond the archive, in a way that does not conform to the archive…”