One was a promise to my mother, who read it. VOGEL Three things that I want to talk about. So it felt important to be able to tell this story, because of the way it was told.
There have been women in my life who have experienced things like this. Reading the play, it’s an uncle and his niece, and along the same lines of the movie. I thought, “I can’t do this.” Then I was asked, just out of the blue, to come to the Vineyard Theater. I became extremely obsessed, I still am, with the notion of negative empathy.ĭAVID MORSE I was offered a movie, a very classy movie from a great novel, and the character in it was a father who molests his daughter. I had already thought when I was 23 or 24, “I don’t know how you would do this as a play” - my story as a play. I was fascinated by the look at Lolita as a peer to Humbert Humbert. I was fascinated by the empathy for Humbert Humbert. VOGEL I became obsessed with “Lolita” in college and grad school.
And the way that she spaces out the events of the play - you know, she saves till the very end what is really the gut-punch, and by that time you’re ready to receive it. But Paula was so wise to lure the audience in. MARK BROKAW When you hear what the play is about, the last thing you would think is that there’s laughs in it. I have this play about -” And I think to the artistic director I said, “about my uncle.” I wrote it in Juneau in about two weeks, staying up all night. Cherry is playing ‘The Heiress.’ Now the good news. I got off the plane in Alaska and they said, “Where’s Cherry?” I said, “OK, some good news and some bad news. I was so freaked out I didn’t tell the theater company.
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