Since arriving in Chicago in 1980, Ohio native Hollis Resnik has embodied a pantheon of troublesome troubled women. She’s inadvertently eaten her children as Tamora, Queen of the Goths. As a Mother Superior of a Jersey convent, she helped her sisters outwit gun-toting mobsters. She’s traversed into the woods as a witch. She’s dreamed and died in Parisian penury, screamed of demons setting London on fire, carpe diem’ed through the Great Depression in Manhattan, celebrated angels in 20th-century America, revolutionized the dress code for the Hampton elite, and outfoxed a family of southern vipers.
Tell me about Norma.
Norma’s situation is so different than mine. I can accept easing out. I accept that my body and my voice have changed, are changing.
How realistic is Norma’s plight? Hollywood has changed as far as the way it treats women . . . right?
10/11-11/24: Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 3:30 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Thu 10/24 and 11/14, 1:30 PM, and Sun 11/24, 6 PM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, porchlightmusictheatre.org, 773-777-9884, $39-$66.
