“I never stopped thinking about the Corruption story,’” Rogers explained, illuminating that comment with a favorite quotation, from William Gass’s treatise On Being Blue: “Art, like light, needs distance.”
“What we do as actors is provide an act of service. We give an audience an experience that they can’t necessarily have in real life. We hold that space for them.”
In Michael John LaChiusa’s piece, based on the childhood of the show’s director, Graciela Daniele, Granmama must bump against the myriad obstacles faced by a woman in 1940s Argentina.
