Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Kenneth Lonergan with Serena Altschul at the site of his grandmother's art gallery, near the intersection of Macdougal Street and Waverly Place. ALTSCHUL: It was 20 years ago that you were writing "The Waverly Gallery." You know, you feel like there are these options and none of them lead to a good place. Sign In. Which is how it turned out. 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The action, set between 1989-1991, and staged by rising director Lila Neugebauer (The Wolves), shifts back and forth from Gladys's tiny gallery on Waverly Place to the Upper West Side apartment of her daughter, Ellen (Joan Allen, The Heidi Chronicles, as good as gold), and Ellen's husband, Howard Fine (David Cromer, Our Town, excellent).We also visit Gladys's Village apartment, next door . LONERGAN: "Waverly Gallery" is about the last couple functioning years in the life of a Greenwich Village gallery owner. And so that's who you're dealing with, and they have to be treated with that respect at the same time you have to take care of them. For more detail on fees and restrictions, visit our website or give us a call. This feels like a good choice?". Leo's character was sort of all over the place. And I don't know that I feel peeved or pleased when sometimes people say, "There's no stories in my plays," 'cause I try very hard to give you can't function without a structure. And she'd know when you weren't quite doing it the way it wanted to be done. But it's a play. LONERGAN: Yeah. LONERGAN: Oh, I'm afraid that's true. Rendered through the retrospective gaze of Gladyss grandson Daniel (a first-rate Lucas Hedges), who lives down the hall from Gladys it recalls Tennessee Williamss guilt-drenched The Glass Menagerie. But Mr. Lonergans lens on the past is sharper and harsher. LONERGAN: Not really. I never wanted to be a screenwriter or a director, or I didn't at first. The playwright's story of family relationships and dementia, now on Broadway in a revival starring Elaine May, Joan Allen and Lucas Hedges, recalls his grandmother's last years in decline. And then they kicked her out. Morrissey May 02, 2019 May 11, 2019 . And I mostly have verisimilitude as an anchor. The Waverly Gallery is his most literal presentation of that inadequacy. So when people say there's no story, there are no plot line, it's no beginning, middle and end. It's a funny word to use, but there's something fun for me about tryin' to put it down as if you looked into the room, that's exactly what you would see. It wasn't, like, I always agreed with her. So they actually delayed shooting for a couple of weeks because they needed to work on the script. Gladys crams all silences with increasingly disconnected bits of autobiography and with peppy questions and catchphrases that she has probably used for decades. ALTSCHUL: So if you were to do something differently, you might have said, "Okay, guys." Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe. Well, I mean most of it's casting. Eileen Heckart in "The Waverly Gallery" 7,094 views Jun 8, 2017 79 Dislike Share Save Luke Yankee 1.06K subscribers Eileen Heckart in scenes from the Off Broadway production of Kenneth. The Waverly Gallery. But that doesnt stop Gladys talking, even in her sleep. . Wage growth is slowing. I'm not sure what the grammar is there! She had this incredible insight. ALTSCHUL: What about the process of writing? Lucas Hedges, Elaine May in "The Waverly Gallery" Mr. Lonergan has one of the keenest ears of any working playwright. is also often deeply funny. 'The Waverly Gallery' is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. Mistakes? Has a lot of freedom, but no foundation. One of 'em had kind of a restricted existence. If you borrow a character from your life, you can borrow their entire biography. LONERGAN: She lived for company and for society I mean the society of others, not "high society." November 11, 2018 / 10:16 AM What was it that resonated with people in that? In a funny way, your memories of something you're using directly, if you're pulling actual memories or experiences into the material, and pulling invented people and events into the material, in a funny way it's the same function. Always stylishly dressed (Ann Roth did the costumes), Ms. Mays Gladys retains her coercive hostesss charm. he Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by. And Ms. Neugebauer has assembled a dream cast to embody the collective madness that seems to descend on those closest to Gladys. She . So there was an evening about faith, whatever it meant to you. ALTSCHUL: You go to the original. In other words, The Waverly Gallery is very much a group portrait, in which everyday life is distorted to the point of surrealism by the addled soul at its center. (LAUGHS) So then it's very simple to understand that you shouldn't talk! And my grandmother owned this eight-unit building in the Village and this huge apartment in the back, which was $900 a month in 1986, which was a lot for me, became available, 'cause the guy who'd lived there for 17 years moved to Texas. Packer must have felt a certain frisson at taking on "The Waverly Gallery," no less than her leading actor, Annette Miller, a veteran of 22 seasons at SS & Co, who plays the role of Gladys. ALTSCHUL: Well, there was a lot of beautiful things in that film to look at. And everyone else in it is just as interested in their life as she is in her own. You're there to help them out. (LAUGHTER) It was a bit too high concept for me. But in describing his domestic portraits and local landscapes, he sums up the essence of the play. Kenneth Lonergans wonderful play The Waverly Gallery, partnership with Mike Nichols is still considered the gold standard, their appearance on Broadway together in the early 1960s, An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May,, It will be one of the hottest tickets in town, First staged Off Broadway in 2000, with a very fine Eileen Heckart as Gladys, , Sign up for our Theater Update newsletter. And then they ended up making the film a few years later. ALTSCHUL: Right. This is different from how I usually work, but we would do one act plays, evenings of short pieces, which would be on a single theme, but very, very broad strokes. Character: Sister James. I don't know why. ALTSCHUL: Right. Yeah. LONERGAN: She's a brilliant woman. And mainly you wanna get a great person in the lead role, and that's where Elaine May comes in. And I don't know if I was or not, but I think that one compliment directed me, fueled me a bit and encouraged me. With its narrator Daniel (an always nuanced David Gow) recounting a familial past, The Waverly Gallery would seem to belong to the tradition sparked by Tennessee Williams with The Glass Menagerie. But it also is sort of the idea of an attempt to do a play in some kind of documentary theatricalization, 'cause it's very literal, and the events are not written in any way as to try to compress or bend the reality to make it more like a story. But even if they were wonderful, I could feel myself kind of getting in their hair, more than was appropriate. The many layers of this serious affliction are explored in each character of the family unit. It's quite a full-time job all the time. Not to quote myself, but there's a moment in the play when the narrator, the grandson says, "It feels like there's some option, but you just can't figure out what it is.". Yeah, smart (LAUGH) and smart-alecky [kids]! THE WAVERLY GALLERY Playwright: Kenneth Lonergan Director: Scott Ellis Cast: Ellen Fine /Maureen Anderman Don Bowman/Anthony Arkin Howard Fine /Mark Blum Daniel /Josh Hamilton Gladys Green/ Eileen Heckart Alan George/ Stephen Mendillo Set Designer: Derek McLane Costume Designer: Michael Krass Lighting Designer: Kenneth Posner The landlord wants to close the art gallery and replace it with a restaurant. LONERGAN: I don't know what they mean exactly, because you know, I often find when I'm watching something, it's when they bring in the sensational event that I start to lose interest. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. I did two rewrites, studio rewrites, which were terrible. The Waverly Gallery: A Play Kenneth Lonergan Samuel French, Inc., 2001 - Drama- 90 pages 0Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Such objections dissolve as soon as Gladys and her clan reassemble into groupings that convey both claustrophobic intimacy and tragic, unbridgeable distance. But I didn't really feel like I had finished, I didn't feel safe with the material till she'd said it was okay. Her partnership with Mike Nichols is still considered the gold standard for such quick-sketch portraiture. And just to hasten the inevitable by kind of taking people away from their homes and away from their lives because they become an inconvenience, is really not great. But with no story, it's not interesting. I like all three of them, but I think that's the most interesting. Unless it's a sensationalist story, in which case it's great. 2. LONERGAN: Yeah. Of course, Lonergan is talented, too. ALTSCHUL: And as someone who you love, dearly, the person is still in there, even though things are scrambled. Could you maybe add some depth to the characters." Lucas Hedges in The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan directed by Lila Neugebauer. But I was there a lot. Shes so convinced that Daniel writes for a newspaper (hes a speechwriter) that he no longer bothers to correct her. Playwright Kenneth Lonergan is so obsessed with telling Gladys' story and creating her . Just the last couple years of her functioning where, you know, it's a very slow, gradual decline. It's very painful to put someone you love in a hospital or a nursing home, which is essentially a hospital. LONERGAN: I'm sure it did. First published on November 11, 2018 / 10:16 AM. ALTSCHUL: And at its core, what is it about? It's like doing a crossword puzzle. This natural, relaxed dialogue between characters? (The minor character of the landlord, onstage at the Williamstown production, was dropped for the Off-Broadway 2000 production. Kenneth Lonergan's 1999 drama, The Waverly Gallery, has taken quite a few hits from critics over the course of its many productions around the country, mainly for trying to cash in on fear of. At 86, Ms. May in her first Broadway appearance in more than 50 years turns out to be just the star to nail the rhythms, the comedy and the pathos of a woman whos talking as fast as she can to keep her place in an increasingly unfamiliar world. Later Daniel says he never wants "to forget what happened to her. It's hard to get these productions up. ALTSCHUL: Was that story drawn from something in your life? David Zinns urban set, with its vistas of the city beyond, weighs heavily on the playing area. I would have brought it back earlier, if the circumstances had lined up. LONERGAN: Yeah, she went there all the time. ALTSCHUL: Well, it worked out in the end in that if one wants to see your version of the film, you're a click away. LONERGAN: I have no idea. "Analyze This." Let it sit back there. The structure builds from the inside-out. (Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/25; via Pam Green.) I'd say it's much more work in a funny way, 'cause as a playwright you can do the writing and pass it on to others, and hang around nervously to see if it turns out the way you wanted it to. Director Lila Neugebauer allows the space for each actor in the brilliant cast to discover the core of their emotional journey. As far as caring for elderly and people with dementia, aging people with Alzheimer's or any of these diseases, not much has changed today. And really the bonds are very strong. They're Freudian psychoanalysts. And I want you to really bring them to life more. And that's quite fun to do even if the material is painful. In a downward spiral Gladys Green, in another stunning performance by Annette Miller, is struggling to hold on. When I watch the play, I'm watching these actors in this story and this theatricalization of it, but I think of the actual events that it mirrors just as often, which is not quite the case with my other work, which is a little bit less literally transcribed from my life. This pseudonym is very simple and uncomplicated. It was about 12 pages long. So I got to move in. LONERGAN: I think because it was painful. The "lot" is contextual: The 86-year-old comedy dynamo Elaine May is returning to Broadway for the . And I really liked it. And they don't see themselves as someone who should be put on the shelf. One can imagine Gladys Green having attended An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and saving the program. She started to talk at them, and it became harder and harder for her to be engaged in the world the way she wanted to be. LONERGAN: Well, you know, a bunch of people. ALTSCHUL: Just speakin' through her, right--? (LAUGHTER) Or at least step back a little bit. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. This is descriptive. LONERGAN: More or less. Its ambit is narrow from Greenwich Village to the Upper West Side and back and its subject matter is circumscribed, too. Like, you're stuck, stuck, stuck on one word, and then there's an adjacent word that you figure out and it gives you one letter to the word you don't have. And my stepfather gave me the idea for "Analyze This," 'cause it was based on a real anecdote where a famous Mafioso went to one of his colleagues the only Sicilian psychoanalyst in New York at the time, (LAUGHS) who had been approached by a famous mobster who wanted to talk to him. So I actually think a lot happens to those characters. Daniel's crystalline monologues of recollection aside, "The Waverly Gallery" often has the ostensible waywardness of recorded conversations. ALTSCHUL: And that was what you wanted to make. ALTSCHUL: Yes. He's very smart. Or a film. LONERGAN: And that's probably why it's so hard to get anything done. She really liked to talk to people and she really liked to talk. And I'm sure she'd love that Elaine May was playing her. But even those depend somewhat on their verisimilitude to be compelling. And then they bought the script outright, which is unusual. This really painful final experience of hers happened right in my face, basically. Or two? [10], On June 9, 2019, May won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Gladys in the Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery. There's both a lot and very little happening in Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery. Blame the Federal Reserve. Select Post; Deselect Post; Link to Post; . LONERGAN: You know, you can turn the lights on and off, (LAUGHTER) if someone walks in or out. (CHUCKLES) Or get anything right in life, 'cause everyone else is pursuing their own agenda, with perfect reason. The Waverly Gallery is nominated for two Tony Awards, Best Revival of a Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play for Elaine May. Since Donald went on the altar boysThere was alcohol on his breath.". ALTSCHUL: So you take the script and there are specific characters that he gives you an assignment? But my other play, "The Waverly Gallery," had this great director, Lila Neugebauer. It is a lifeline. I mean, that kind of topic and the sadness, the grief, the loss. LONERGAN: Well, I try to recreate actual human speech as best I can. LONERGAN: It's a long story. Kenneth Lonergan's grandmother, with her pet Dalmatian. By the end, the identities of those around her blur with those of people long dead. ALTSCHUL: So Martin Scorsese says to you, "I need your help. Beetlejuice Apr 25, 2019 Mar 10, 2020 . And I think the main thing about it is that the person is still as alive as you are, and they can't be relegated into the status of an invalid. ALTSCHUL: So when you find yourself in those situations, then you say, "I'm gonna write this. ALTSCHUL: They're psychotherapists or psychiatrists? Because how can his ear be so good and his mind so sharp when Gladys is already so deaf theres some very funny business in and around her hearing aid and growing deafer, more senile every time we see her? LONERGAN: And that somehow got around to this brother and sister, one of whom was a religious person and the other of whom wasn't. It's really hard to take care of someone all day long. An octogenarian New Yorker, former lawyer and perpetual hostess for whom schmoozing and kibitzing have always been as essential as breathing, Gladys operates on the principle that if she can just continue to talk, she can surely power through the thickening fog of her old age. Very closely. Years go by, you watch them again, they feel fresh, relevant. Even if initially they were making a mistake. Where did you hone that? (LAUGHTER) But it's nice to have someone who's supportive, but very, very truthful with you. I don't think it was too much to cope, I was. A lotta the dialogue I thought needed work, so I tried to make the dialogue scenes better. That is what you want to do most of all. You know, it's not just awful. And then it was a question of filling things in. ", Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck in Kenneth Lonergan's drama, "Manchester by the Sea.". She is in her 80s and showing signs of Alzheimer's disease. ALTSCHUL: When did the idea kind of start saying, "I'm a play"? I was young. And I was watching a play, it had a little kid in it. My mother really took care of her, but my mother lived uptown and I was on the scene, so I was . How are we gonna make sure, the person might not wanna take a shower, or they take too many, you know? Do you know those characters? That movie was so late in the process that every other movie I've ever script doctored, they always rewrite you after you're done anyway. And that's about it. Ink Apr 24, 2019 Jul 07, 2019 . And they kind of let the actors do what they're gonna do. Gladys declines from scene to scene, a decline that the gallerys closing quickens. The Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by Kenneth Lonergan and as directed by Lila Neugebauer and upraised by Elaine Mays toweringly fragile performance, it is as quietly and ferociously sad as anything he has ever produced. They say "We really want you to write this"? LONERGAN: "Waverly Gallery" is about the last couple functioning years in the life of a Greenwich Village gallery owner. I lived off that one script for three years. And I got to know her tastes a little bit, and I got to understand where they diverged from mine. And I immediately thought of the whole film in a way in my head, when I was watching that play. My overhead was very low. The play premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on September 25, 2018 in previews, officially on October 25. He was included in a later production at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2002. There's a character who's a painter who's inspired by a real guy, but his personality bears no resemblance to the real guy, who I didn't know that well. May plays Gladys Green, a women who when we first meet her has the beginning of dementia. I was asked to come on two weeks before they were supposed to start shooting. LONERGAN:I don't know that, nobody does that anymore. The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan conveys how families are torn apart coping with and caring for elders with dementia. She's got dementia, and it's about how she tries to hang on to what she's got, and how her family, her daughter and grandson and all them cope with this extremely difficult end of life. I was outta college, and was living in an apartment on Bank Street that I was subletting from my brother-in-law. What if the sister in the one act had a son, and the brother, who's a bit irresponsible, formed a relationship with him and then kind of let him down a lot?" People really work hard to help take care of their loved ones everywhere, all over the world. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Between Riverside and Crazy: Wild and Wonderful New York Story I was one of his disciples. ", Tony Awards 2022: Complete list of nominees and winners, "A Strange Loop" playwright Michael R. Jackson on his emotional autobiography, "A Strange Loop" earns a leading 11 Tony Award nominations, 2021 Tony Awards: Complete list of winners and nominees. She was all of our first all of our-- the first choice of all of us. ALTSCHUL: So they come with a story idea, and say, "Here are the characters. You know, kind of the rug's pulled out from under you before you're ready, and before it needs to be. Gallery-Wav_Erly's near Broadway A little information about me About Let's get acquainted! Gladys is . She also received a Drama League Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. (Got any coffee lying around?). From the moment Gladys Green opens her mouth which is the moment that the curtain rises on Kenneth Lonergans wonderful play The Waverly Gallery at the Golden Theater its clear that for this garrulous woman, idle conversation isnt a time killer. They're talking." the waverly gallery monologue. Please enter valid email address to continue. (CHUCKLES). Academy Award winner Kenneth Lonergan's acclaimed memory play, and 2001 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Waverly Gallery, premieres on Broadway at . I've always been interested in the way people talk. And she was also very, very honest and blunt, without being mean, but it was very valuable, 'cause most people, you beg your friends to be truthful with you, and they tend to soft-pedal their criticisms a bit anyway, unless they're just smart asses who like to criticize you, in which case you don't need their help. And it's hard, it's not really for me to say. ALTSCHUL: So "Manchester by the Sea" was profoundly sad, disturbing, moving, emotional, let's just say very, very sad. It's more like an exercise than a real creative endeavor. "The Waverly Gallery" is narrated by Gladys's grandson, Daniel, the Lonergan stand-in, who has a penchant for wry, detached sarcasm. No, she was really brilliant. Productions [ edit] I tried to get the details right, he says, because thats what you remember when you think about something, so I tried like hell to get them the way they are.. The other is that when you do direct you can kinda see why you might not want the writer hanging around, because there's so much you have to do that is not to do with the script. ALTSCHUL: Would you have brought it back without her? There are places where there's this uncanny resonance that's both Elaine, the character she's playing, and my grandmother. And I thought, the other thing is that I still don't feel the need to direct theatre all the time. Just you feel you do want it to stand on its own and not require your descriptions of it. When he read the script he suggested that I direct it. And it can be really fun to try to do that. The details are all very much drawn from my experience and from my family. ALTSCHUL: Let's talk about "You Can Count On Me" and how that story developed. Buy Paperback Quantity: Kenneth Lonergan. She was a big Village leftie. And if you get good actors, that's great. And it just went on and on and on. And without that, you don't really have much of anything. And the more you can draw from your life, as they say, the less you have to invent. LONERGAN: [As Matthew Broderick put it], it's my most literally autobiographical work. Although she'd be very happy for me. LONERGAN: I'd say so. ALTSCHUL: Is it your most autobiographical work? I love this little scene." Like I thought, "Okay, so he'll let the kid down in various ways, three or four times." And that's the other thing that I'm interested in, anyway, is that a lot of these big situations come down to practicalities, like who can be there at 5:00? You don't want them to be done once and forgotten. While The Waverly Gallery was always a star vehicle (Eileen Heckert, who created the role, was superb both in the Berkshire and Off-Broadway productions I saw), it also relies on its ensemble to make Gladys's family a vital part of her story. And you know, I think a lot of her impressiveness is there, and her zest for being alive and involved and all of her unique qualities are on display, I suppose. 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. ALTSCHUL: And you take that idea that was just a little nugget of a brother-sister, different worlds, different perspectives on meaning. Joanne Woodward filled in for an ailing Eileen Heckart in the final four performances.[3]. It was pretty clear where it was working and where it wasn't. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. "Yeah, I'm gonna live in grandma's building. And this past Sunday the play and May won Drama Desk awards. But I also worked with some wonderful directors. 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