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| Alan Austin and Vanessa Benjamin photo by Mark Gluckman |
Click here for more information on this production that runs through February 4th.
"...a 25 year old aspiring writer from the bleak Prairie Provinces of Saskatchewan, enters the cloistered environs of this 81 year old cantankerous judge...This is the relationship that Joanna McClelland Glass conveys in TRYING, the tender and poignant account of a year in her early life (1967-68) as the secretary to Francis Biddle, whose distinguished career included service as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Attorney General and President Harry Truman's appointee to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Translating the interaction between two characters of such different backgrounds and dispositions ~ each at a crossroads in their lives, one whose sun is rising and the other's setting ~ requires a deft and balanced hand in the director's chair...Judy Rollings excels in meeting the challenge...This is a play that, as it tracks the passage of the characters and their evolving relationship, likewise requires performances that are steady, nuanced and authentic. Alan Austin as Biddle and Vanessa Benjamin as Sarah Schorr fulfill the requirements with sterling craftsmanship..." - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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