But I also worked with some wonderful directors. In what is a chock full of Theater, "The Waverly Gallery" is another great one. ALTSCHUL: And you were caring for her, in some ways, during that time? Writer Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery" is a story of family relationships and a grandmother's last years in decline. The "lot" is contextual: The 86-year-old comedy dynamo Elaine May is returning to Broadway for the . Shakespeare & Company, based in the Lenox, has opened its 2019 summer season with "The Waverly Gallery," staged by Tina Packer, founder of the troupe in 1978 and director of the company until 2009. She's really funny. It's so much different and better, you can't even imagine! ALTSCHUL: So it just had to sit there. Shes talking about the end of Helens first marriage, to Daniels father, but it comes to suggest a more willful oblivion. In "The Waverly Gallery," the young writer Daniel Reed (Lucas Hedges) is overwhelmed with guilt regarding the care for his aging and increasingly demented grandmother Gladys (Elaine May), who. You mighta walked them through it a little more? And we ended up casting Casey. And I knew I had a good arc for a full story. Buy Paperback Quantity: Kenneth Lonergan. For more detail on fees and restrictions, visit our website or give us a call. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. And her personality is very vivid. ALTSCHUL: But the film didn't scare people away. It's not like having a real job, but it's very difficult and absorbing and interesting. What happened? ALTSCHUL: So when you find yourself in those situations, then you say, "I'm gonna write this. Shes a woman of diverse talents acting, directing, writing, sketch comedy so its easy to forget just how talented she is. LONERGAN: It is difficult. LONERGAN: She lived for company and for society I mean the society of others, not "high society." The other is all over the place. Ink Apr 24, 2019 Jul 07, 2019 . They say "We really want you to write this"? I like it. You don't want them to be done once and forgotten. It was a long way getting to the film that I wanted to make in the editing, so by the time I got there I wasn't able to completely execute everything I wanted to. I mean, that kind of topic and the sadness, the grief, the loss. So I was there for her last two years. Our Pet Policy. I was outta college, and was living in an apartment on Bank Street that I was subletting from my brother-in-law. And I do like that. Directed by Scott Ellis, the play starred Eileen Heckart as Gladys Green and Josh Hamilton as Daniel. LONERGAN: Mistakes. ALTSCHUL: Did you ever think you would be interested in being an analyst or a psychologist? Blame the Federal Reserve. ALTSCHUL: Issues of the day are not on your plate . he Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by. Where did it go wrong? LONERGAN: No, no. So it's easy to walk away from. LONERGAN: It was a great apartment! So I actually think a lot happens to those characters. It's about a teenage girl who's facing what the real world is like for the first time. But I think if all that happened to you in two days, you'd think you'd had quite an eventful weekend. LONERGAN: "Analyze This" was an original script that I wrote. 'The Waverly Gallery' is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. I wrote a science fiction novel when I was 11 and 12, or 12 and 13, something like that. But that's actually the most complicated thing to do, is to have people simply talking. And real life is richer usually than your imagination. ALTSCHUL: Why was that film a hard film to make in the end? Well, now that I've directed these three films, I really do think of myself as a director, as a filmmaker also. And just to hasten the inevitable by kind of taking people away from their homes and away from their lives because they become an inconvenience, is really not great. Why were the audiences drawn to that film? This feels like a good choice?". [66] That same year, May's film A New Leaf was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". There's nothing wrong with them, and if they have some depth to them, you know, you read plays that are topical that are 30, 40, 50 years old and they're wonderful because they have something besides topicality to them. LONERGAN: Well, you know, a bunch of people. Who knows? Kenneth Lonergan's new play, The Waverly Gallery, is a heartbreaking glimpse into the effect Alzheimer's has on a family. And none of us would budge. She had this incredible insight. An octogenarian New Yorker, former lawyer and perpetual hostess for whom schmoozing and kibitzing have always been as essential as breathing, Gladys operates on the principle that if she can just continue to talk, she can surely power through the thickening fog of her old age. 'Cause he's always working. I have two plays that I directed 'cause I had a real specific idea of how I wanted them to be, the whole design. But then sometimes they just reach out and there they are. Just watch the extended "Margaret," the extended edition. And then I thought, "Well, this is great. And I don't know that I feel peeved or pleased when sometimes people say, "There's no stories in my plays," 'cause I try very hard to give you can't function without a structure. The play opened Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theater on March 22, 2000 and closed on May 21, 2000. LONERGAN: Yeah, or even if they say you're good at something you're not good at, you think, "Oh, well maybe " It might encourage you to go in that direction a bit more. (LAUGHTER) It was a bit too high concept for me. LONERGAN: No, I mean the play is about her at a age she wouldn't wanna be seen at, and a state of mind she wouldn't want anyone to be witness to. Like, people, their good strengths come out not in a sentimental way, but in a real inspiring way. Because Matt Damon and John Krazinski came to me with the idea for the story. Unless it's a sensationalist story, in which case it's great. It is a lifeline. ALTSCHUL: Was that story drawn from something in your life? I lived off that one script for three years. I thought maybe I would use them for something else someday. LONERGAN: I have no idea. ", Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck in Kenneth Lonergan's drama, "Manchester by the Sea.". She rented the gallery from the early '60s to the late '80s, right before the kind of gentrification and real estate boom really hit the Village. Leave a Comment / Uncategorized (LAUGHS) 'Cause they don't really need you telling them everything all the time. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. It's just you have to invent less when you're using real life. And she died, so that was the end of that. Right down the line! (LAUGHS). The Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by Kenneth Lonergan and as directed by Lila Neugebauer and upraised by Elaine Mays toweringly fragile performance, it is as quietly and ferociously sad as anything he has ever produced. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. [67], " 'Waverly Gallery', Eileen Heckart, Take Their Final Exit, May 21", "Woodward Subbed for Heckart at Lonergan's Williamstown Gallery", "Elaine May, Lucas Hedges & Michael Cera To Star In Broadway Premiere Of Kenneth Lonergan's 'The Waverly Gallery', "The Band's Visit Director David Cromer Joins Cast of 'The Waverly Gallery' on Broadway", " 'The Waverly Gallery' Begins Previews on Broadway September 25", " 'The Waverly Gallery', Starring Elaine May, Closes on Broadway January 27", "Picture of a Family in Crisis Hangs in 'The Waverly Gallery'", "Nominations for the 2019 Drama Desk Awards Announced; 'Oklahoma! ALTSCHUL: Just getting those kinds of performances out of actors, it only happens when you've got somebody who is an actor's director who understands what it's like on both sides. The Waverly Gallery is an insightful look into a passionate and feisty woman's final decline and the impact felt by the entire family. The Waverly Gallery opened October 25, 2018, at the John Golden Theatre. She also received a Drama League Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. LONERGAN: No, no! How are we gonna make sure, the person might not wanna take a shower, or they take too many, you know? Ill also admit that I looked forward to the curtain call and the reassurance it would bring that May, 86, isnt quite so fragile. One of 'em had kind of a restricted existence. Her work here should encourage a thorough re-evaluation of Mays reputation, which has always been good, but not as good as it should be. Kenneth Lonergans personal play about a gallery owner losing her memory is a beautifully acted, quietly crushing tragedy. They tried a bunch of different ideas for him. LONERGAN: Well, you want your plays to have a life. (The minor character of the landlord, onstage at the Williamstown production, was dropped for the Off-Broadway 2000 production. And this past Sunday the play and May won Drama Desk awards. LONERGAN: And that's probably why it's so hard to get anything done. It's funny, though, because it's still attached to the real events that inspire it. The pictures are good. A powerfully poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. LONERGAN: I'm trying to work, yes. ALTSCHUL: So "Manchester by the Sea" was profoundly sad, disturbing, moving, emotional, let's just say very, very sad. And it gave me an entry into the screenwriting world, and I rewrote other people's scripts. And how the brain works and how people make the choices they make? People who are lucky who don't mind being in them and the ones that are very nice, if you can afford them, are great. It is considered a "memory play". Gladys Green, the proprietor of the gallery of the title, is a crusty old lady on the cusp of the downslide into Alzheimer's disease. You're there to help them out. And it's something that's kinda skipped over often times. What is it? The show is able to balance the painful situation with the humor her family finds in the darkest times. She'd always know what you were doing. For whatever reason that passage wasn't actable. So there was an evening about faith, whatever it meant to you. I wanted to be a playwright, but you can't make any money as a playwright unless you're a very big deal. It takes place in 1989, it's based on my grandmother and my family, and it's about her last years trying to hold onto her life and her gallery as she kind of slips away. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . the waverly gallery monologue. But I don't know if I really have the temperament for it. But it's interesting. Alzheimer's wasn't quite coined as the catch-all for most forms of dementia. And the more you can draw from your life, as they say, the less you have to invent. When I was 5 years old I started to draw. David Zinns urban set, with its vistas of the city beyond, weighs heavily on the playing area. ", Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in Kenneth Lonergan's "You Can Count on Me. Trying to convince her family and herself that shes still capable of navigating the flux of urban life, Gladys always fills in the verbal gaps that confront her, even with words that may not be the right ones. As a screenwriter (You Can Count on Me, Manchester by the Sea) and dramatist (This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero), Mr. Lonergan has always portrayed human communication as an imperfect compromise. LONERGAN: That was unusual, 'cause that was an assignment at first, that became my own project. ALTSCHUL: So, you would have to say, "Mom, things have progressed here. And then as it turned out, he wasn't able to be in it either because of his schedule. Published by Grove Press. And then they kicked her out. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. LONERGAN: Oh, I'm afraid that's true. I think more the '50s. Anyone can read what you share. Browse the gallery for an inside look. "Lucas Hedges' final monologue in The Waverly Gallery destroyed me. We'll just set them up in this . And it's a very big world. Do you know those characters? And especially as you're becoming an adult, and becoming not just a function of your family and your parents, to be facing the complexity of the rest of the world, and the fact that other people are just as important as you are at that moment when your own ego is identifying itself, is a very tricky moment in life. "[1], The Waverly Gallery was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. Or this six characters? It's quite a full-time job all the time. "The Waverly Gallery" marks the fifth collaboration between J Stage Theatre and the professional production company. LONERGAN: She's a brilliant woman. But my other play, "The Waverly Gallery," had this great director, Lila Neugebauer. Ill admit that several times I thought shed missed a line or fluffed one, but when I went back and read the script, there was everything shed said. And I was watching a play, it had a little kid in it. But I hadn't had a lot of bad life experience. LONERGAN: Yeah, I think it's the best one I've done of the three [I directed]. And their loneliness, their isolation, their confusion, their anxiety, real and unreal. She was all of our first all of our-- the first choice of all of us. Just you feel you do want it to stand on its own and not require your descriptions of it. I don't wanna know anything about you or your life or anything." When does a young man decide, "I'm going to try directing now. (LAUGHS) So then it's very simple to understand that you shouldn't talk! Just the last couple years of her functioning where, you know, it's a very slow, gradual decline. But no word is randomly chosen here, starting with. I tried to beef up Cameron Diaz's character as much as I could. Could you maybe add some depth to the characters." ALTSCHUL: And the gallery itself, there wasn't much going on there in the end. ", Kenneth Lonergan directing Matt Damon and Anna Paquin in "Margaret. And really the bonds are very strong. LONERGAN: I thought it would be funny if he took him on and all sorts of terrible things happened afterwards! Why shouldn't they? ALTSCHUL: So the constraints of the facts kind of give you freedom to explore the little details? ALTSCHUL: And as someone who you love, dearly, the person is still in there, even though things are scrambled. Let it sit back there. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. And then when she got older she became deaf and her mind started to fall away, and so it became harder for her to enjoy the main thing in life that she liked, which was to connect with people and to talk to them. And that's the other thing that I'm interested in, anyway, is that a lot of these big situations come down to practicalities, like who can be there at 5:00? LONERGAN: Yeah, she went there all the time. The Waverly - Hotel & Residences Whitefield Main Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048 +91 80 6708 9000 | Hotel Phone Number +91 91 0848 1282 reservations@thewaverly.in account@thewaverly.in The Waverly Story The Waverly Hotel & Residences draws its inspiration from the rich heritage of Whitefield. And I was so pleased that he had liked anything that I had done, that I then thought, "Oh, I'm very good at dialogue." ALTSCHUL: So they come with a story idea, and say, "Here are the characters. "Analyze This." ALTSCHUL: And that's just life experience, right? Morrissey May 02, 2019 May 11, 2019 . LONERGAN: [As Matthew Broderick put it], it's my most literally autobiographical work. Although she'd be very happy for me. Also present are what Daniel calls his clan of liberal Upper West Side atheistic Jewish intellectuals: his psychiatrist mother Ellen (Joan Allen), his psychiatrist stepfather Howard (David Cromer) and most crucially his grandmother Gladys (May), a former lawyer who now runs a Greenwich Village art gallery that never seems to sell anything. (LAUGHTER) I have a play I wanna write. And for years it was a really functioning local, Greenwich Village gallery, which doesn't really exist anymore, I guess. LONERGAN: It was a Naked Angels theatre company one act. November 11, 2018 / 10:16 AM ALTSCHUL: But she was an extraordinary woman. But you're not there to express yourself. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. (Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/25; via Pam Green.) And I thought, "Oh, that sounds like a really good story." LONERGAN: I do, yeah. With her dyed hair and her yesteryear-bohemia outfits, Gladys still cuts a vibrant figure, but her mind is starting to cloud. It was pretty clear where it was working and where it wasn't. Current Totals: 12498 plays, 5653 writers, 356 monologues Title Author More about The Waverly Gallery: Play Details Monologues Add a Monologue Trivia Director's Notes Rate this Play Publisher's Website: Director's Notes for The Waverly Gallery No Notes have been entered yet for this play. He was included in a later production at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2002. I'm gonna put this on paper and then I can grapple with it better"? The real estate wasn't sky-high in those days. And my older brother was gonna move in, but then he moved to Brazil. They give you backup and depth. LONERGAN: It's a little hard to say what it's about. (LAUGHTER) But she's a genius, and she's incredible in the part, and I always wanted her to play this role. Gladys Green owns a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. And Matt was gonna direct it and he was also gonna be in it. LONERGAN: Unfortunately. But with no story, it's not interesting. Ms. May, right, portrays a gallery owner who shows work by a struggling artist (Michael Cera, left), while her grandson (Lucas Hedges) worries about her health. And then I was unable to write it for eight months. It also takes place on the Upper West Side, where I grew up. Gladys declines from scene to scene, a decline that the gallerys closing quickens. They don't understand that they don't understand. What was it that resonated with people in that? ALTSCHUL: So, "Waverly Gallery," "This Is Our Youth," pieces of yours that just stand the test of time. LONERGAN: No. LONERGAN: I'd say so. She . ALTSCHUL: So, speaking of things that stood the test of time, how does "The Wonderful World of Pluto" hold up now? And I immediately thought of the whole film in a way in my head, when I was watching that play. It's really hard to take care of someone all day long. I mean, who knows? But the idea was to write a script and sell it, and let them do to it whatever they were gonna do to it, but make some money. From the moment Gladys Green opens her mouth which is the moment that the curtain rises on Kenneth Lonergan's wonderful play "The Waverly Gallery" at the Golden Theater it's clear that for this garrulous woman, idle conversation isn't a time killer. [1][2] The play originally premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, running from August 11, 1999 to August 22, 1999. And I thought, the other thing is that I still don't feel the need to direct theatre all the time. ALTSCHUL: But in the grand scheme of things it's hard to wake up. I've always been interested in the way people talk. There's a structure to it, or you couldn't write it. LONERGAN: Yeah, and I'd check in on her like that. First published on November 11, 2018 / 10:16 AM. Its a tragedy of mostly good people who sometimes fail each other even when or especially when they dont want to. Daniel's crystalline monologues of recollection aside, "The Waverly Gallery" often has the ostensible waywardness of recorded conversations. It doesn't make it okay when things go badly, but it is something that is beautiful that's brought out when these very difficult things happen. My best friend's father died quite young, and I was there for a lot of that. (LAUGHS). ALTSCHUL: You mentioned that you were living next door to her. (CHUCKLES). We're not all having the same experience all the time. And it can be really fun to try to do that. Image Video. People don't quite have to be as separated from the company of others as sometimes we separate them, in this culture anyway. It's not a memoir. It's been a box office hit. It wasn't, like, I always agreed with her. I was just sitting there typing. THE WAVERLY GALLERY Playwright: Kenneth Lonergan Director: Scott Ellis Cast: Ellen Fine /Maureen Anderman Don Bowman/Anthony Arkin Howard Fine /Mark Blum Daniel /Josh Hamilton Gladys Green/ Eileen Heckart Alan George/ Stephen Mendillo Set Designer: Derek McLane Costume Designer: Michael Krass Lighting Designer: Kenneth Posner ALTSCHUL: And at its core, what is it about? I don't know why. You can't just throw stuff down and have it be interesting. ', 'Tootsie', 'Rags Parkland' Lead the Pack", " 'Tootsie', 'Hadestown', and 'The Ferryman' Lead 2019 Drama Desk Award Winners", "2019 Tony Award Nominations: 'Hadestown' and 'Ain't Too Proud' Lead the Pack", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Waverly_Gallery&oldid=1136664953, This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 14:23. And I mostly have verisimilitude as an anchor. IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. It's a funny word to use, but there's something fun for me about tryin' to put it down as if you looked into the room, that's exactly what you would see. ALTSCHUL: Yes. Daniels crystalline monologues of recollection aside, The Waverly Gallery often has the ostensible waywardness of recorded conversations. LONERGAN: Yeah, and it's not your movie. Not to quote myself, but there's a moment in the play when the narrator, the grandson says, "It feels like there's some option, but you just can't figure out what it is.". And then eventually he wasn't. . I wasn't, like, a saint, spending all my time taking care of her. Gladys is an old-school lefty and social activist and longtime owner of a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. I loved that man, I would have done anything for him. So I lived off of that script. And they don't see themselves as someone who should be put on the shelf. I grew up pretty easy circumstances. (Theres a fifth character, Don, an amateur painter played by the current Lonergan go-to Michael Cera and as close as the play gets to comic relief.). And then it gives you that whole word, and the whole thing starts to come into place. I miss huge swaths of experience, but (LAUGHS) of little pieces that I remember, I remember pretty well. A powerful, poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery follows the final years of a grandmother's battle against Alzheimer's disease. ALTSCHUL: I mean that's what it is about, right? I was asked to come on two weeks before they were supposed to start shooting. She did a lot of work on housing issues. and particularly his monologue at the end which was certainly powerful stuff. And then I also noticed, not to be immodest, that I often had an idea about how the scene could be played out. ALTSCHUL: So Martin Scorsese says to you, "I need your help. She was somehow connected in with real estate, as she always found apartments for everyone, her friends and family I mean. Why? But I didn't really feel like I had finished, I didn't feel safe with the material till she'd said it was okay. It takes place in 1989, it's based on my grandmother and my family,. It's difficult, I imagine. At 86, Ms. May in her first Broadway appearance in more than 50 years turns out to be just the star to nail the rhythms, the comedy and the pathos of a woman whos talking as fast as she can to keep her place in an increasingly unfamiliar world. But yeah, I don't think he has any full-time analytic patients anymore. They're talking." The Waverly Gallery Oct 25, 2018 Jan 27, 2019 . Like, you're stuck, stuck, stuck on one word, and then there's an adjacent word that you figure out and it gives you one letter to the word you don't have. LONERGAN: I woulda walked them through it more. ALTSCHUL: Do you love being given a problem? LONERGAN: They're psychoanalysts. There's a plot of some kind. ALTSCHUL: I guess what I'm asking is, why write it? They're Freudian psychoanalysts. She was very, very gregarious. I'm not sure what the grammar is there! And one of my college friends was my roommate, so we split the rent. Although I think it's something I would be good at and that I would like and be interested in. She's really smart. As far as I'm aware. It was called "The Wonderful World of Pluto." It's just about coming to terms as a young person realizing that everybody's really doing their own thing. Robert De Niro played a mobster who seeks help for his panic attacks from Billy Crystal in the comedy "Analyze This" (1999). And then the fact when people put their faith in you, sometimes you try to live up to it. You had early success in the film business. Or the locks on the doors, the gas on the stove, or just arrangements of who's gonna take so-and-so to the doctor, to the eye doctor, and that becomes a big part of your life. Auditions drew a talented cast of newcomers and alumni. LONERGAN: Yeah, they had an idea for a movie that they liked. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. They don't come with material presented. My mind was kinda wandering. 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