Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: We love our children, but do they love us? (Did we love our parents?) Peter Ustinov put it this way: “Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.” Children necessarily win in the end, but the parents’ revenge is that the kids are stuck with the legacy of the battle.
Such is the cheery theme of Halley Feiffer’s “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard,” her 2015 two-character play that pits a famous playwright father and novice actor daughter first against the world, then each other.
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I have never heard of another show similar to this, with one man and one woman who have a father/daughter relationship. It seems interesting in the fact that it appears to be two monologues, at least from what the critique said. I really enjoy two-character plays because they normally cause the actors to get way more comfortable with each other than a cast of thirty would. I got the chance to direct a three person show and the bond that the actors had by the end of the whole process was incredible. It takes a lot for three actors, let alone two, to do an entire show with just themselves onstage and no other help. They have to constantly be engaged and connected, because they cannot rely on any other actor possibly coming into help save the show. This could all go away when I see it of course if the show is in fact two monologues. I would love to see this show just to watch the dynamic between the two actors, because the bond they must have in and outside of the roles would be incredible to watch.
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