In this honest and personally revealing
one woman show, writer-performer Cathy
Lind Hayes tells of her lifelong search for an elusive and enigmatic
woman - her birth mother. Hayes was adopted at three months old by celebrated
entertainer Peter Lind Hayes and his actress-singer wife Mary Healy. Although
her life was happy and full of love, as
an adult she was determined to learn about where she came from. State law forbid
her access to her original birth certificate, and the New York Foundling
Hospital would only give her non-identifying information.
Being unremittingly stubborn, and passionately committed to knowing
the truth no matter what, Hayes takes us along on an astonishing decades-long journey. She brings her story to life with wonderfully eccentric impersonations
of many of the people who helped and/or hindered her in her quest.
Not to spoil
the denouement, you will be surprised if not totally satisfied by the outcome,
as Hayes is not the sort to leave us high and dry.
Directed engagingly by Michael Allen Angel, and produced by Mount Tom Productions in association with Racquel Lehrman of Theatre Planners.
At the Whitefire Theatre,
13500 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, through October 23. Performances Thursdays
at 8 pm and Sundays at 3 pm. For reservations and information, call (323) 960-1055 or go to www.plays411.com/banshee.
Photo by Ed Krieger.
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