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This was my first time working on a Cherylene Lee play.  “Arthur & Leila” is a two-hander about two older siblings who have come to a crucial point in their long family relationship.  A terrific play, simple but deep. <\/p>\n

This was also my first time working with a playwright like Cherylene.  She was so smart about her play, very detailed, protective about her play, but not closed off, and a fine, careful, writer.  She made me really work, with a playwright, for the first time. <\/p>\n

 She surprised me with a lot of no\u2019s to my suggestions but showed me why, which showed me the clarity of her thinking and the subtlety of her writing.  She made me consider everything I thought of more carefully before talking with her about it.  And she made me see her play the way she saw it.  This is not to say that I didn\u2019t do this with other playwrights I worked with, but she showed me that maybe I didn\u2019t know as much as I might think I did, and that there might be other ways than the way I thought was the right way.  But I think this was because the quality of her work was such that it could bear up under more scrutiny than a lot of the plays I worked on.  And this play didn\u2019t have much fat on it, lean and tight, made the way she wanted it.  And that\u2019s the way it played, I\u2019m happy to say. <\/p>\n

 Working with Cherylene on this play, our first of several collaborations, showed me that I still had a ways to go as a director, but at the same time showed me I could do good work with someone as accomplished as she was.  Mahalo, Cherylene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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