I was tasked with attempting to write something regarding  my experiences with Martha Louise Livingstone.  For the past four weeks I have been working hard to be to be true to her. As an actor I want to be true to the text and make use of all the wonderful things the playwright has given me. It’s daunting.  There is so much.  She lives with me every waking minute of every day. My goal has been to be honest and authentic.

Martha is penitent and engages the audience as confessor. This role is thrust upon the audience. The play demands it.  Mea culpa…

This process of creating Martha Livingstone, for me, has been many things…challenging, enriching, terrifying, joyful, frustrating, gratifying, exhausting, and supremely humbling. I am grateful for the opportunity to be humbled.  Let’s begin…

– Kathleen Reilly