Cynthia Nixon on her new play and mother-son dynamics
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The play was written by Jordan Seavey and is staged like a performance piece, with video cameras, portraits and standing mics utilized throughout. Jordan, what's something you really wanted to satirize about performance art and performance artists?I didn't necessarily set out to satirize. I think art world satire is a bit baked in. Also, I love art and I love theater. I'm also in art and theater and it's really hard to make new art. The worlds around artists are full of huge personalities who often have to do whatever they can to make it because it's so hard to make it.
Like, there's this famous story about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli performing together as they had since Liza was very little. But Liza tells the story about how all of a sudden, Judy could feel that Liza was now giving her a run for her money. There used to be such an expectation of what a mother's role was in her child's life, and it's exciting to me that Miriam's pushing the boundaries a little bit on this idea that a mother needs to be the caretaker and the provider of love and warmth and support. I think it's really exciting that we're questioning that role in this play.
But I think that Jordan and our director Scott Elliott, certainly wanted to know what the character was but not to have it be, you know, a limp and an eyepatch and a stutter. So it was very challenging, but body language is very helpful.
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