Storytime with Guy Mendilow (Celebrity Series of Boston) 2/5
As a lead-up to the premiere of An evening of Musical Tales, Celebrity Series of Boston released a series of interview snapshots with Guy Mendilow.
Storytime with Guy Mendilow 2/5:
The stories in this performance
The stories in this performance share three elements.
They were all created during the pandemic. They all explore questions that were heightened by the pandemic. Questions about what resilience is made of, what it looks like, not in Hollywood but in a real-life messy day-to-day. And they all look to moments of history to puzzle these questions out, and often to true stories, from a tale of my grandfathers’ escape from a Hungarian Arrow Cross work camp in 1943 (to make his own wedding) to the dilemma of families in the former Ottoman Empire looking at the threats of war and wondering whether to stay or go.
I look to stories like these because they offer pathways. They help me decipher bewildering environments and remind me that I am not alone.
