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PYGmalion Productions: Be Here Now
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Be Here Now is a new play from PYGmalion Productions opening this May.
PYGmalion Productions gives artistic voices to playwrights, directors, performers, and characters, telling the stories that reflect women’s lives. Actor April Fossen sits with Mary Dickson to talk more about the upcoming production, Be Here Now.
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PYGmalion Productions: Be Here Now
Special | 2m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
PYGmalion Productions gives artistic voices to playwrights, directors, performers, and characters, telling the stories that reflect women’s lives. Actor April Fossen sits with Mary Dickson to talk more about the upcoming production, Be Here Now.
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(bright music) - Pygmalion Productions gives artistic voice to playwrights, directors, performers, and characters, telling stories that reflect women's lives.
And here to tell us about the upcoming production, "Be Here Now," is April Fossen.
Hi, April.
- Hi, Mary.
- Lovely to have you.
(April giggles) Okay, so first of all, how would you describe this play?
- So, it is a dramedy, it leans more towards comedy in the script, but the subject matter is a little more on the dramatic side.
It's about people in midlife who are sort of adrift, and they find each other and find themselves.
- Aha.
Okay.
(April giggles) And so what makes this relevant now?
- The play was published in 2019, but I'm surprised it was pre-COVID because it sort of tackles some things that we're all dealing with post-COVID.
Economic trouble, health trouble, interpersonal relationships, feeling isolated, all of those kinds of things that are really relevant now.
- All right, okay, and tell me about your role, (April giggles) and what appealed to you about it?
- So I play a woman who is sort of perpetually underemployed but can't find the wherewithal to do the things that she needs to do in order to have the right kind of employment.
She is sort of a misanthrope and is a little bit unhappy with her life, and she experiences some extraordinary things that take her to a different place.
- Ooh.
All right.
(April giggles) All right, okay, and who else is in it?
- Matt Sincell, Brenda Hattingh, and Niki Rahimi.
- Okay.
- All wonderful, wonderful actors to work with.
- Oh, great.
And the director?
- Jason Bowcutt is the director.
He's a complete delight- - Aw.
- And we're having a wonderful time.
- Jason, okay.
Rehearsals are going well, I see.
- They are.
We're just having such a great time.
It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
When I talk about it, it sounds trite, but it is, I think it's very unusual and beautiful the way the story is told.
- Well, wonderful.
Look forward to seeing you in this.
- Yeah.
- Thanks, April.
- Thank you.
- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Pygmalion Production, "Be Here Now," it will run May 2nd to 17th.
Go to pygmalionproductions.org.
That's pygmalionproductions.org.
I'm Mary Dickson.
Thanks for watching "Contact."
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