Show from radio play honors childhood for Findlay
February 15, 2016
| Q: What are you directing?
Maren Findlay: It’s a stage adaptation of a 1951 radio show called Fibber McGee and Molly: Molly’s Checkup Q: What is your play about? Findlay: It’s about a couple, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Fibber is bragging about his amazing physique and muscle tone and decides Molly needs to have a checkup since she hasn’t had one is ages and can’t possibly be healthy some she doesn’t go bowling regularly like he does. so they go to the doctor and of course, fibber ends up in the ER. it’s a fast comedy where people come and ago with little comedic sketches Q: Why did you choose this play? Findlay: My older sister and I have lots of the radio shows on cassette tapes and we used to listen to them almost everyday and this was one of our favorite episodes and since each episode is 1/2 hour long, I realized it would be perfect and it’s like a childhood happy thing that I’ve wanted to do so I made it into a stage productions Q: Wait, this wasn’t originally meant to be a play? Findlay: No, it was only meant to be heard over the radio, I had to transcribe it from the cassette tape and it’s a lot of my vision for what I want to be like onstage Q: Why did you decide to direct this year? Findlay: It’s a super cool opportunity that I knew I would want to take advantage of even from when I was a freshman. it’s really special to actually create something onstage that’s your own. especially with this show for me, since it’s really close to my heart Q: What have been some of the challenges of directing? Findlay: Well, I’m directing by myself so I have no one to bounce ideas off of. it’s a lot of me thinking out loud and changing my mind and not knowing exactly what to do. in the beginning I worried about being an authority figure but I’ve gotten more comfortable with my cast and with going with the flow so I feel like I’ve got a bit more of a handle on what I’m doing. another challenge is that I’m not very organized so I’m bad at coming up with concrete schedules and lists and all those things that one would find extremely useful for directing. |