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“The play’s director, Brian Rainville, explained how the work came to RUHS. “I found this script a year ago in New York City, when I was on sabbatical,” he recalled. “It had just been published, and the story spoke to me. What happened to Rosemary Kennedy is a Greek tragedy—overreaching father destroys his child. The playwright, Steven Carl McCasland, offered a very fair contract— and asked if he could come up to see the show. That’s how this journey from page to stage began.”
“The universality of this story is striking,” Andreyev noted. “Joe Kennedy taught his children it’s not who they were that mattered, but who people thought they were. The whole idea of image—cultivating and maintaining a public persona— a brand—is still with us today.” ”
