This month, Ground Floor Theatre is presenting the world premiere of the new play 'Jenna & The Whale.'
, a new play by Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline, is making its world premiere this month at Ground Floor Theatre. As Garcia explains, it’s a play about a young woman and a whale but it’s notabout a young woman and a whale. “This play is about a girl named Jenna who gets stuck in the belly of a whale,” she says. “So that's what it is sort of on the surface.
Kelsey Mazak, who plays Jenna, says she found the character to be easy to relate to. “She is very strong willed, very caring of others,” Mazak says, adding “she does tend to have a coping mechanism of burying herself in things, such as books or surfing, to not deal with grief. She's a very caring person but does struggle to take care of herself. I mean, I'm the worst about not taking care of myself and just kind of focusing on other people.
Garcia, who like her co-writer Jake Cline is based in Miami, has been in Austin for the production period leading up to the premiere ofShe says it’s been a pleasure to be on hand for the play’s rehearsals. “All the actors are so fantastic that I love Lisa [Scheps], our director. She's so great,” Garcia says.
“I've had the privilege to be part of a couple of world premieres with the playwright right there,” Jennings says. “And it's my favorite thing to do. I want to collaborate.”and Jennings says the play has important things to say about grief and how one deals with it.
“There's not a right way to grieve,” Mazak adds. “I know Jenna says several times in the play, ‘I'm crazy, right? People are saying, I'm crazy’ and [we] talked about it in our first rehearsal that there's a sort of madness that comes with grief. And I think [the play] really explores that – that nothing that you do in the process of grief is wrong. Nor is it crazy. It is valid and it's a part of the journey.
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