You Take The Good, You Take The Bad, You Take Them Both And There You Have … Lucy Gillespie’s “Hangman School For Girls”
by Karen Tortora-Lee on February 22, 2010
Playwright Lucy Gillespie
I recently got a chance to chat with the very charming young playwright, Lucy Gillespie, who has penned the upcoming play Hangman School for Girls which is being produced by Vagabond Theatre Ensemble. As the title of this post implies, this is a story involving the students at an all-girl’s school, although any resemblance to that Tootie-Blairefest of your youth (or, for the Millennials in the crowd, from hulu.com then) is purely coincidental. This ain’t your momma’s Eastland … schoolgirls don’t roll that way anymore. Rather, Hangman School for Girls was presented to me as “Alice in Wonderland meets Lolita with a little Mean Girls thrown in”. Ahhh, three very unlikely pairings, but three very guilty pleasures of mine.
Lucy Gillespie and I spent some time talking about all-girls schools, the challenges of acting in your own work … and what it takes to feel like you’ve “made it” in this big city.
