Nan McNamara as Vivian Bearing in Actors Co-op's production of WIT
Margaret Edson's pulitzer prize winning play WIT has been a joy to rehearse. On first read the writing knocked me on my you know whatty and thrilled my soul however I was uncertain I could live with the hell of cancer during the process. In viewing an interview with Margaret Edson and Charlie Rose (with the talented Kathleen Chalfant) my courage was renewed and Margaret guided me all the way. The set design by Gary Lee Reed really lifts our production and never ceases to delight me in the way it serves the story and it's visual pleasures. Joseph King Barkley who wrote original music for THE CRUCIBLE created the sound for this show as well. Using Bach throughout he added a modern twist to a classic piece that really suits the emotional life of the play and the character of Vivian. It never ceases to amaze me how a play comes to life. You read a script that some writer spent perhaps years working on then a group of people come together and in a matter of weeks (after a few months of prep) the story is alive, in 3-D and an audience is invited into the experience. If a play plays and there's no audience to see it, is it still a play? No. Just need to remind myself of that.
