She felt the theme would resonate in 2020, when the play was originally set to be staged before the pandemic forced a postponement — even more so now, amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment nationwide.
“That’s possibly why it hasn’t been so successful in the past,” Schmidt, 48, said at a rehearsal on a sweltering Wednesday last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Why did you want to do this play?
ERICA SCHMIDT The play is shot through with desire; this need to really live life and to cling to what matters to you with both your hands until your fingers break, as Carol [an eccentric aristocrat character] says.
It felt like an undeniable piece of work that one would need to throw oneself into.
Persons:
Schmidt, ”, “, ” Schmidt, Williams, Schmidt —, —, ERICA SCHMIDT, Carol, Thornton Wilder, MAGGIE SIFF
Organizations:
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Locations:
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