Playing about true to my handicap of 15, I had plenty of chances to find out about the hazards of side-hill lies, deep traps and tangled rough.
What does it say about me and the character I'm playing as, about my world and his?
I would never not meet a new person and play coy about my identity.
"You know, I've written a play about Mies, too," Finfer recalls telling Bergman.
And Ms. Killebrew (who wrote the impressive "Play About My Dad," at 59E59 Theaters last year) is entrancing as the ragdoll KitKat.
"He says to me, 'I want to do a play about my dad,' and I really was shocked because he's never wanted to talk about his dad," Mr. Taccone said.
It was just like in 'You Can't Take It With You.' For me, that's a play about my family in 1979.
"There are things in this play about my relationship with Joe Papp, Lynne Meadow, Steven Spielberg," he confessed, listing impresarios (from the Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and Hollywood, respectively) with whom he has collaborated.
With "The Play About My Dad," Boo Killebrew attempts a daunting juggling act: telling multiple accounts of Hurricane Katrina's assault on her hometown, Gulfport, Miss., and recounting the dissolution of her parents' marriage and her rapprochement with her father, a doctor called to action when the storm hits.
Ms. Killebrew, an actress and playwright from Mississippi, is fluent in Southern idioms (her autobiographical "The Play About My Dad" from 2011 addressed Hurricane Katrina) and seems right at home here, her Julie a fluid blend of wistfulness, ardor and caution.
