Priscilla's first response to Soo-Jin's worshops

AFFIRMATIONS

• I have so enjoyed witnessing your journey to find this play -- watching scenes and characters come and go as you dig deeper and deeper into your story.
• I am so interested in what you have to show us about family -- and not just family, but this particular Korean family.
• To me, at this moment, it seems that this is Mom's journey/struggle. I particularly like the choice you've made to show that journey through Harriett.
• I found both of your workshops very useful. Focusing on the nature of a sexual predator and comparing the stereotype to the reverand was such a great way to address his behavior in a context outside of the play's world.
• I was particularly interested in the scene you brought in last Tuesday in that there were hints through dialogue to Mom's caring or loving side that I hadn't seen before. I really appreciated her kind word or two and realized that I didn't need much to confirm for me that there was a complex, searching character under her frosty demeanor.

QUESTIONS

• I wonder about love in this family, particularly Mom. She has such a difficult time saying anything pleasant, and usually if she does, she follows it with something negative. Do you want us to like her? Feel compassion for her?
• Is the Dad really as bad as Mom says he is?
• If Mom weren't around, would Reverand find someone else -- or does he have or has he had others? Or is he truly smitten, in love with Mom?
• Are we supposed to know if Mom and the Reverand ever had sex? (Somehow I think it would make a difference in what I thought about both of them -- even though I don't think it would make any difference in the closeness of their relationship.)
• You saw this is spoken in Korean -- do you mean you might use supertitles? Or that these are the speach and mannerisms we would hear in a Korean household?
• Why doesn't the Dad accept Mom's behavior?

OPINIONS

In the past there have been scenes that took place in the church that aren't included at this point. If they stay out, I think you might not need any scenes in the church. I realize there is a scene where Harriett exposes the reverand, but if the congregation is only the two families, that would not have to be in the church. This sort of poses another question for me: Would Mom have had the friendship/affair with anyone else (a non-reverand man)?