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caught up with researching the realities
of Palmer Park.
"I don't think my character is defined
by her Judaism',' Govich says. "The issues
are more racial than religious."
Glass, whose writing interest grew
after a try at acting with the Pasadena
Playhouse in California, began work-
ing on scripts when her children were
young. In the evenings, after they were
asleep, she would turn her ideas into
dialogue.
Early plays, awakening memories
of her youth in Saskatchewan, include
Canadian Gothic and Artichoke. To
Grandmother's House We Go, a fam-
ily reunion piece that has starred
Eva LeGallienne, was produced on
Broadway in 1980. Play Memory, which
deals with alcoholism, was directed by
Harold Prince and earned a Tony nomi-
nation in 1984.
Two novels, Reflections on a
Mountain Summer and Woman Wanted,
have been adapted into screenplays.
The second was filmed in 1998 starring
Holly Hunter and Michael Moriarty.
Trying, Glass' most popular play,
has a local run coinciding with Palmer
Park (see sidebar below). Her newest
play, Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily, offers
only monologues spoken by a woman
and her maid and has been staged in
Canada, where the writer again makes
her home.
"The time of Palmer Park was the
time of busing so we were really fighting
to have neighborhood schools and not
to have to send the kids out to the sub-
urbs," recalls Glass, whose deep concern
with educational opportunities stems
from a parent's inability to read.
"My mother was taken out of school
in second grade and remained illit-
erate, and I have guilt about being
impatient with her. [With that and
later experiences], accessibility to good
schools always has seemed to me the
root social issue in North America.
"I think that when education is
in peril — as it certainly was in the
time covered by Palmer Park and even
more so now in every school in Detroit
— the country is in peril."
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discounts for seniors and students. For performance dates and times, call
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Another Glass play
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ust before Palmer Park
opens at the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre, another Joanna
McClelland Glass play, Trying, opens at
the Marygrove College Theatre.
The two-person drama, staged
by the UDM Theatre Company and
capturing another segment of Glass'
life, runs weekends April 9-25 and
features a talkback with the play-
wright after the matinee performance
Sunday, April 18.
Trying recalls a time just before the
Palmer Park experience, when Glass
(Anne Di Iorio) was secretary to Judge
Francis Biddle (Arthur Beer), attorney
general under Franklin Roosevelt and
chief judge of the American Military
Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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D.C., home during what he knows is
the end of his life.
"Trying has had close to 60 pro-
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and in England and Australia and
recently opened in Los Angeles','
Glass says. "It's probably my most
financially successful play.
"Because it has only two characters
and one set, the play can get many
productions. It has to do with a very
exciting experience that I wrote about
many years after it occurred."
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