Hurd on Bringing One-Woman Play Home to Rhode Island on LIVE
Hurd on Bringing One-Woman Play Home to Rhode Island on LIVE
Hurd, who Skyped in from Chicago, talked about her training in obtaining a degree in acting from North Carolina, then an MFA from the acclaimed National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia, then moving to Chicago to hone her comedy skills.
“I thought, OK, the best way I could market all of my skills would be creating a one-woman show for myself and I had this premise, and I started talking to fellow students, and as it’s very female-centric story, I wanted to have a primarily female-identifying creative team and was able to assemble an amazing team of creatives,” said Hurd.
“It’s about a young woman named Amory, who is quite cynical and she’s quite narcissistic. She doesn’t want to have kids, she’s having some trouble growing up, but her older sister is trying to get pregnant and is having trouble doing so, so reluctantly Amory agrees to become the surrogate mother for her sister and things are going pretty well,” said Hurd. “When she’s four months along with the pregnancy, she’s finally starting to get the hang of it — she might even be liking it a little — but then something happens that she has to now take care of this child by herself which is something she never intended to do. So she kind of ends up stuck pregnant on the other side of 25.”
Hurd spoke to the successful run of the show in Australia, and what performing back in Rhode Island means to her.
The Other Side of 25 is being performed at The Artists’ Exchange in Cranston May 30 through June 2. For more information visit www.artists-exchange.org/events.html.