Parul Sehgal interviews the playwright Amy Herzog on the new production of her play “Mary Jane,” which stars Rachel McAdams as the mother of a two-year-old born with serious medical conditions.
It was at this point that the woman sitting next to me, in the audience, covered her eyes. The episode lasts mere minutes. It is entirely overheard, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt such tension in a theatre before—a tension that ripples with the sudden, surprising twists of language and feeling distinctive of the playwright Amy Herzog. The new production of her play “Mary Jane,” directed by Anne Kauffman, recently opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
And I would say that’s happened plenty of times when a play didn’t emerge. There’s usually some point where I write some significant chunk or monologue or something where I realize there’s something here now to build the play around. And with “Mary Jane”? What kinds of questions were nagging at you? The first scene I wrote for “Mary Jane” isn’t in the play. Mary Jane is talking to an early-intervention specialist, and good-naturedly fighting the government bureaucracy.
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