Listen in as playwright Jennifer Fell Hayes and actor Kate Grimes of Rosemary and Time discuss beginning with a true story before letting the playwright’s imagination take over, mastering the Yorkshire accent, figuring out where in time your play begins, issues of class in the U.K. vs. the U.S., throwing in local turns of phrase, and dealing with issues of “shame and grief and connection and the past and guilt.”

“…having met the two women […] I really was very, very touched by what had happened to them, and promised them I would really try to do the best I could…a truthful play that might say something about the human condition, about love and loss and life, all those major, major themes that we try to wrestle with…”

Rosemary and Time

written by Jennifer Fell Hayes

directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan

thru February 17, 2018

Paradise Factory Theatre Main Stage

64 E. 4th Street

Manhattan

tickets: $18, available via BrownPaperTickets

photos by Gerry Goodstein