![]() As Hayley summed it up during our conversation, the show is about “transition and change and the end of an era.”įirst Folio Theatre actors Michael Dias, from left, Jennifer Mohr, Hayley Rice, David Rice, David Gordon-Johnson and Andrew Behling perform in "And Neither Have I Wings to Fly" at the Mayslake Peabody Estate, Feb. A fitting swan song, “And Neither Have I Wings to Fly” is a melancholy family drama set in rural Ireland during the 1950s. The loyalty of First Folio patrons was evident when I saw the production last Saturday I heard one person remark that she had been attending for 20 years and was sad to see the company close. “So, I think having that kind of family experience is a really nice capstone to the experience our audiences have had over the years.” “Our family has been so transparent in so much of the First Folio experience that a lot of our regulars knew my mother, know my father, know me - not just onstage, but being out in the lobby, greeting them,” she said. Having acted in many First Folio productions since then, Hayley shared how meaningful it is to appear with her father in the theater’s final show - not only for them but for their longtime audience members. “A lot of my favorite memories of my teenage years were actually those summers there, where these 20-somethings (actors) from the city were nice enough to take me under their wing and not just boot me to the curb,” she said. ![]() … I don’t think a lot of 13-year-olds are seeing Pinter on a Wednesday night.”Īt 15 years old when First Folio’s first production opened, Hayley quickly found that the theater was a great place to spend her summers. “That wasn’t a common experience for a lot of kids. “Before First Folio, I’d go home after school, do my homework and then go see a show with my parents,” she recalled. Growing up in a theatrical family exposed Hayley to the art form even before her parents founded their own company.
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