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WHO: Hailey McAfee and Rosie Glen Lambert
WHAT: And Her Children
WHERE: The Hobgoblin Playhouse, 6440 Santa Monica Bl
WHY: Performer Hailey McAfee masterly takes us on an 80 minute ride in this piece, co-written with director Rosie Glen-Lambert. (It was inspired by an appearance by Dana Loesch at a town hall after the 2018 Parkland shooting.) As Anna, a spokesperson for the NRA, McAfee speaks directly to us, prejudging us for prejudging her. She doesn’t care. She’s sure of her positions… or is she?
We know exactly who Anna is… until we don’t. In her indigence as she defends gun rights at any cost, her story starts to unfold and then unravel, punctuated by the scratchy sound of the violinist mysteriously at the back of the stage. She tells us everything she has ever done is for her children. She proudly tells us stories she knows we’ll condemn her for but she stands by her choices as a mother. In this political climate, she dares us to find, if not sympathy for her, then an understanding of who she is and how she got here. McAffee’s Anna has a job to do and she does it well.
HOW: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12188
