When Love Speaks
An Audio Play
Written by Lois Meredith
Directed by Pamela Berlin
With Laila Robins as Marta
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One woman’s fantastical pilgrimage from grief to self -discovery
The Company
Lois Meredith (Playwright) is the author of eleven plays and screenplays including Fossey, directed by Pamela Berlin at the Virginia Stage Company, Professional Misconduct, and Sadegh. She served on the Faculty of Oberlin College where she taught psychology, contemporary French literature, directed the French Theater Workshop, and was a member of Herbert Blau’s Performance Group. Dr. Meredith is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.
Laila Robins (Marta) is a theater, film and television actress who has worked extensively in New York as well as regionally. Her favorite theater roles include Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (Steppenwolf Theater), Masha in Chekhov's Three Sisters (director John Doyle), Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (The Guthrie Theater) and Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream (at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park). She is best known for her leading roles in the TV series Homeland , The Blacklist, and The Walking Dead, and for the film classic, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. She has garnered many awards including a Drama Desk Award, Callaway Award, Richard Seff Award, Obie, Joseph Jefferson Award, and nominations for several Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She is an associate artist at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and has taught at Fordham University and HB Studio. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
Pamela Berlin (Director) is a theater and opera director. In New York she has directed on Broadway as well as at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC. Premiere works have included Steel Magnolias, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, and Crossing Delancey. She served for six years as President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers, a national labor union.
What People Are Saying
“A remarkable play!”
— Philip Himberg, Director, The Macdowell Colony
“An extraordinary journey through grief, vulnerability, magical thinking, denial, and, finally, into the light again.”
— Helen Cooper, Curator Emeritus of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Museum
“Beautiful, engaging, and deeply affecting. Laila Robins tells Marta’s story with self-knowing irony and an emotional honesty that never becomes indulgent.”
— William Carden, Artistic Director, the Ensemble Studio Theater
“The protagonist’s mood changes skip along like stones on the surface of water; her longings are vivid, amusing, and true.”
— Penelope Bodry-Sanders, actress, author, founder of the Lemur Conservation Foundation
“A journey of sexual longing, heartbreak, tender memories, and surprising gentle laughter. What Love has to say is what we need to hear in this time of loss for so many of us.”
— Marian Hailey-Moss, author, life coach, actress
“Brilliant, moving, poetic – a path to truly substantive transformation.”
— Laurence Tancredi, psychiatrist, author of the poetry collection, Sources
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