In the Next Room: Mrs. Daldry

[csecooney]

In a most astonishing turn of events, I was yesterday offered the role of Mrs. Daldry in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room," or "The Vibrator Play

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[csecooney]

Sometimes I feel the need for ALL NEW joyful noises! To that end, I dreamed the words ZING ZOU ZOU! And hurray and hurrah and WHEEEEEE as well!

[csecooney]

I TOO SAY DOOT DEE DOO! But I have never thought of making it a WEREWOLF COUPLET! You are VERY CLEVER! LOUP GAROUUUUUUU!

[asakiyume]

Triumphant everything Claire ^_^ That is most supremely excellent!

[csecooney]

I do SO like to use that tag!

[tithenai]

SHRIEK!!!!! I AM SO HAPPY! Oh Claire, so happy for you, so delighted -- I had this feeling, you know, and part of that feeling was NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that you would get a role, but my feeling was that there would be an unexpectedness, that the casting would be a mirror, that you would have to see a facet of yourself anew, and this is it, this is a thing.

I would never in a million years have called you fragile, but I know you can play it, can rock it all micah-leaf silicate. I wish I could see you perform.

[csecooney]

This play so moves me, Amal, it is so important, so exquisite - I shall bring my copy to Canada in January and perhaps you and Caitlyn and I can snuggle to read it. I know you will love it. I know I am... I am just HONORED to be near it.

[mamagavone]

You might be astonished. I, however, am not the least bit surprised. You played Mrs. D PERFECTLY during auditions. The directors would have been mad not to cast you!

[csecooney]

I don't know about that, my dear, but I am entirely grateful to you for saying it.

[ellen_kushner]

Your gifted dramaturgical insights into character will serve you well in this. So glad to see the perfect marriage of actress & role!

[csecooney]

I AM EXCITED! I do not know how this play will change me - but I think it will.

[csecooney]

We will sing a GREAT Zing ZOU zou!

"how the play will change me"

[negothick]

And there in a nutshell is why you were cast. Another might have written "If I don't look the part, well, I'll just have to change the play"--but you understood that the actor is changed by the experience. As the hobbits were changed by their journey. . .
I can't wait to see the play--or really, to be part of it, given how intimate the venue is.

[csecooney]

Faye, I think this character is a pianist. And I only took a year of piano in my twenties and I was never good at it and basically - if I need to learn to play for this role, will you help me? It would just be one song, I think...