It felt like a really cool step to take on something I didn’t write, to take on something real and something that I knew pretty early on I wanted to have this pretty realist acting on it. Usually Half Straddle’s acting idiom isn’t super realist or naturalistic the whole time in a show, and it became pretty clear when we would do readings of this early on that that was the clearest way to do it – with really good actors treating it naturalistically, and then with this slight edge we break that apart a little bit at a certain point. I was just really excited to take it on, because I never really had a script of my own or anyone else’s that I’d got to do that with. Reality Winner was just immediately this person that at once had so many things about her life that were other to me – she’d been in the military for six years and starting at age 18, she learned three Arabic
languages because she was a linguist. Things you learn in the transcript that you’ll also learn in the play are that she owns three guns, but she also teaches yoga. She’s worried in the transcript that they’re going to take her phone because she needs the music to teach yoga. She’s super into her animals. So as she speaks in the transcript, it’s this amazing morphing between a 25-year-old, giggly-ish, kind of apologetic young woman, merged with someone who can talk deep national security coded language around TSI clearances and PKI passwords. She can dip totally into a shared language with FBI men, and then she’s also herself and makes these really weird awkward jokes. She’s just this incredibly rich character. Extract from Checking in with Tina Satter – The Kitchen’s In Dialogue series By Dahlia Bloomstone. Read the full interview here.
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