“The ball pit in some ways is the cleanest place to be in the room.”
I spoke to Mac to find out more about the story behind the ball pit and the reasoning behind continuing to perform for as long as possible. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.I grew up in a place that wasn’t very welcoming to me as a queer. I went to New York City and my life has turned out pretty good as a result. But the place that I came from, it’s still really struggling.
When kids are in the ball pit, you see their faces just light up. It’s the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to them. It’s thrilling. And adults don’t really get to play so much anymore. We’re so serious about our playing. I thought maybe there’s a way that these two worlds can exist together and inside this ball pit. And it’s beautiful. I’ve never seen a play staged in a ball pit.
There was a lot of assumptions like, “Oh, how dare you? How could you do this in this time?” And we were getting annoying social media people that were saying these things. And they don’t know the reality of the situation is that there’s more germs on your phone than there are in the ball pit. But you can’t convince people of that. They just believe what they think they know. That’s the reality of our world.
Well, it’s a choice. The audience can sit on the sideline, they can sit in regular seating, or they can sit in the pit. We were talking about eliminating the audience sitting in the pit. That would mean we’d have to change the set. We’d have to increase the number of seats that were in the audience and shrink the pit. But we felt like we could do that. None of the actors have gotten sick. They’re in the pit more than anybody.
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