THEATER: Family life in two acts: Atlanta couple's careers intersect. Play about mothers, kids and murder makes for intense experience

When Rachel May first talked about producing 1:23, the unsettling drama that centers on three real-life mothers who killed their children, playwright Carson Kreitzer asked her: Didn't you say you had a 1-year-old? [...] you want to do my play? Now pregnant with twins, May, producing artistic di...

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Published inThe Atlanta journal-constitution (2001)
Main Author JUBERA, DREW
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta, Ga Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC 03.05.2009
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1:23
Community theater
Families & family life
Theater
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Summary:When Rachel May first talked about producing 1:23, the unsettling drama that centers on three real-life mothers who killed their children, playwright Carson Kreitzer asked her: Didn't you say you had a 1-year-old? [...] you want to do my play? Now pregnant with twins, May, producing artistic director of Synchronicity Performance Group, recounts the year-old conversation from inside her Decatur house. The play's headline-grabbing mothers include Susan Smith (played by Rachel Garner), who in 1993 rolled her car into a South Carolina lake with her young sons strapped in their seats; and Andrea Yates (played by Dori Garziano), who in 2001 drowned her five kids in the Houston family's bathtub with the cool remove of a parent dunking Easter eggs.
ISSN:1539-7459