(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Mia Farrow takes a break from activism to return to Broadway after a gap of 16 years Acting on broadway is hardly a vacation but if you’re Mia Farrow it just might be. Her day job these days after all is speaking out about genocide and atrocities. Farrow 69 has taken a break from international horrors to return to Broadway for the first time in 16 years to perform in A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters in which two would-be lovers read aloud letters exchanged over a lifetime.
Farrow whose screen credits include Rosemary’s Baby and The Purple Rose of Cairo says she’s been so focused on Syria Haiti Gaza Sudan Chad the Central African Republic Congo and the Darfur region that she often forgets she’s an actress.
She’ll star with Brian Dennehy and then a rotating cast will continue the work including Carol Burnett Alan Alda Candice Bergen Stacy Keach Diana Rigg Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen. Gregory Mosher is directing.
The play arrives on Broadway a month after Woody Allen’s musical Bullets Over Broadway shuttered as if the Great White Way couldn’t host both at the same time. Both she and her ex-partner revisited a bitter chapter earlier this year when her daughter Dylan Farrow renewed molestation allegations against Allen.
Farrow here talks about her activism the play and who pushed her into returning to acting. How were you lured back to Broadway
I think it’s an exquisite play. It’s unique and I find it very powerful. It only takes a month of my time. The beauty of it is that different people will be reading the letters. In the absence of staging and costumes and the razzle-dazzle that we sometimes associated with Broadway this is all about the simplicity and power of these letters. Do you plan on memorising the letters
No. In fact the author specifically says there’s no need for memorising or rehearsal. I mean I know the content of the letters obviously well and I’ve read the play many times. It shouldn’t be that you have it down pat. Do you draw on any personal memories to play this part
These are two very specific kinds of people. They’re distinct characters. So I didn’t feel that I had any experience that replicated the person I’m playing. Were you at all put off being on Broadway because Allen has been there the past few years
No not at all. It never crossed my mind. Of course not. No I’m just excited to be working with Gregory Mosher again and doing a play that I love. That’s all. How do you balance international affairs with acting
Basically I don’t. I’m hardly an actress at all. When I’m reading it’s something about those regions. This is stepping out of it for a month. Like a vacation if you will. You’ve become one of our moral voices. Is that hard to live up to
I’ve done my best. Other people do a lot better. I think it’s when you lay down to die you can say ‘I tried.’ You can find that on my Twitter handle: ‘I’m trying.’ I’ll feel OK about my life if I can in all honesty feel that I’ve done that. What do your kids think of your return to performing
My son Ronan keeps urging me to go back to acting. I totally forget about it. Somebody will stop me at the market about seeing me and I’ll go ‘Oh my God. That’s right. I did do that movie.’ He has a lot of respect for people who can act. He likes the work that I’ve done. He’s looked at it since he’s been an adult and he just says ‘You should be doing this. This is something you can do.’ He also thinks this is awfully intense for me — my focus on genocide and mass atrocities and injustices. He thinks it would be really good for me to hang out with fellow actors and lighten up and have a better life. Is he right
I have a different perspective of that. I’m actually at peace with myself. I’m a very very happy person. And I have good friendships. And I actually forget that I ever acted.
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