But Corthron wants to show her characters evolve over the course of nine months, and that takes time.ĭawn Thomas plays Mia, a grad student hired to tutor Holly in subjects like algebra and African-American studies. On either side of the steps are the shelves of dolls-Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, American Girls-whose eyes lock the audience in a staring contest for the duration of the play, providing needed tension to a slow-moving story. That’s the only entrance or exit, and its placement has a voyeuristic effect. Once again, director Michael Dove and his Forum cohorts employ what’s become the troupe’s signature formula: a solid, newish script, a small cast, and a really cool set.Ī staircase descends from a door at the very top of the black-box space. Exile is God’s punishment, she says, and when she decamps, she takes with her a collection of more than 200 dolls, a significant percentage of which are onstage props. Jackson is the title character in Holly Down in Heaven, a new play by Kara Lee Corthron about an evangelical Christian teenager who gets pregnant and retreats to her father’s basement for nine months. Now, in her first lead role at Forum Theatre, she’s acting for adults, but playing a kid, and doing a darn good job of it.
Some of Jackson’s highest profile roles have been at Imagination Stage, playing rabbits and such.
theatergoer but aren’t familiar with the actress Maya Jackson, that’s probably because you don’t have kids.
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