A few days before rehearsals officially began, director Cheryl McFarren, a graduate student in the department's Ph.D program, wrote her cast a letter. Here is the text of that letter. If you find it vague, please interpret it as you see fit. Trust your impulses as you go about investigating.
All points of view are welcome to the discussion.
I represents the past, Act II the present and Act III the future. We have some perspective on our childhoods and adolescences, but we are in the process of improvising our futures. I believe the challenge the third act presents us is to discover enough faith in our toughness, our tenacity, to carry on when life asks us to start over again. In order not to be overcome by the tragedies that do occur in life, we must believe that we can and will eventually move beyond them. One way of inspiring that hope is by hearing how other people have triumphed over adversity.