Last updated August 28, 2010   

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

By Michael Brady

Directed by Carri Moffatt

Performances August 13, 14, 15(m), 19, 20, 21

:Since his wife's drowning death, David has made their summer cottage on Nantucket Island into a home for his teenaged daughter, Rachel. But David is obsessed with his dead wife, and keeps her alive in nightly rendezvous on the beach.

On the second anniversary of Gillian's death, Gillian's sister and brother-in-law visit the island for the weekend, bringing a woman friend in hopes of helping David come to terms with his grief. A touching story of enduring and obsessive love, leavened by whimsy.

What the reviewers said:

" ... a sensitive and adult exploration of the grief and dislocations that attend a death in a family, of the compromises of marriage and of the responsibility of parents to their children." - The New York Times

Cast of characters

• David - Gary Prince
• Rachel - Amanda Prentiss
• Cindy - Taylor Moffatt
• Kevin - Susan Hobbs
• Esther - Carley Hansen-Prince
• Paul - Dan Simmons
• Gillian - Shawna Stone

Director

Carri Moffatt directs her first regular-season play for ACT after making her debut with trhe limited-engagement special event The Last Five Years in 2008. A veteran of the ACT stage, Carri has appeared in Humble Boy, Goodbye Charlie, and Into the Woods (among others) and performs with Puttin' on the Bitz, a local cabaret group. Carri lives in Albany with one of her two daughters (also a veteran ACT-or) and works as an art designer.

Web links

• To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday - wikipedia