On Thursday, October 9, I opened Robert Schenkkan’s 2005 play By The Waters of Babylon, in the role of Arturo for the Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project. I saw this play in 2005 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; my first season as an acting company member there. My dear friend Armando Duran played Arturo in that production and he was incredible. As my OSF compadre Tommy Curtis told me: “you have some big shoes to fill.”
It’s been almost a year since I had last been on stage, one of my longest breaks between shows in my career. Rust? Maybe a little at first. At least during the rehearsal process.
Babylon is a two person play and both characters have much to say, and go to such emotional depths that at times it felt like training for a marathon in a very short amount of time. I feel like I’m hitting my stride in this piece.
It’s been almost a year since I had last been on stage, one of my longest breaks between shows in my career. Rust? Maybe a little at first. At least during the rehearsal process.
Babylon is a two person play and both characters have much to say, and go to such emotional depths that at times it felt like training for a marathon in a very short amount of time. I feel like I’m hitting my stride in this piece.
Catherine, a widow, is the object of gossip and suspicion about her husband's death. Arturo is a Cuban refugee with a tragic secret, hired for the day to tame Catherine's overgrown back yard. Haunted by their previous lives, the two journey through their deepest fears and desires to find themselves on the shore of a new beginning. This show runs through October 19. For more information, visit www.twtp.org
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