![]() As for why the cast opted for some variation of British accents despite Thatcher Island being set in New England, she explained, “I personally think of theater as British.” How long did it take her to write? “A number of days.” Will her son ever make it off the island? “Theater is not answers, it’s questions,” she said. The play, still a work in progress, has everything a theatergoer could want: seagulls trained to defecate on target, ghosts, a lighthouse, a pirate named Vagina, a second lighthouse.įollowing the reading, Peretti welcomed questions from the audience (“We have time for 65 questions”) as a way to workshop the material. Peretti, naturally, played the role of “Mother,” whose son (Early) is lost at sea but returns home to discover that his mom has been lying about their being stranded on the island. This was Playwright Peretti, holding a reading of her new play, Thacher Island - about a family living on an island off the coast of Massachusetts - with the help of her theater group Pacific Playwrights Horizons ( John Early, Kaitlin Olson, and Xosha Roquemore). ![]() But this wasn’t just the Peretti you know and love from Brooklyn Nine-Nine or her recent directorial debut, First Time Female Director. Following the relaunch of her beloved podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti, earlier this month, the titular Chelsea Peretti took to Vulture Festival 2023 for a live episode recording. ![]()
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