Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad: Meet Nan Kirschman
Here's a fun tidbit: one of the first fragments of dialogue that popped into my head for this play was Sarita scolding Gina: "She hasn't done anything but be lonely." I didn't know at the time that Sarita was talking about the one and only Nan Kirschman (Fawn Wilderson-Legros). Nan is the play's true outsider, having no loyalties to any of the other characters. As such, she's able to voice a lot of things the audience may be thinking as the play progresses, perhaps along the lines of, "Why are you being so terrible to each other?" and, "How have you managed to survive in the real world for this long?" Unfortunately, her outsider status makes her (as it so often does in our world) a convenient scapegoat when needed (which happens more than you might expect in a comedy about moving day).
Nan also serves, for Sarita, as a sort of funhouse mirror, a distorted but eerily plausible reflection of what her future with Gina might be like if she's unable to draw Gina, kicking and screaming if need be, into an equal partnership.
Nan was straight up a ton of fun to write. Lacking serious ties to the other characters, she's able to stay out of their drama and observe-sometimes silently, sometimes not, but always irreverently and, at least in my mind while I was doing it, hilariously. No one wants to admit it, but everyone's life needs a Nan.
Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad opens TONIGHT at 7:30 at the People's Center Theater, 425 20th Avenue South, Minneapolis. Tickets for future performances are available at Brown Paper Tickets.
Nan also serves, for Sarita, as a sort of funhouse mirror, a distorted but eerily plausible reflection of what her future with Gina might be like if she's unable to draw Gina, kicking and screaming if need be, into an equal partnership.
Nan was straight up a ton of fun to write. Lacking serious ties to the other characters, she's able to stay out of their drama and observe-sometimes silently, sometimes not, but always irreverently and, at least in my mind while I was doing it, hilariously. No one wants to admit it, but everyone's life needs a Nan.
Girl Gumshoe & Detective Dad opens TONIGHT at 7:30 at the People's Center Theater, 425 20th Avenue South, Minneapolis. Tickets for future performances are available at Brown Paper Tickets.