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...Hamill: Mostly because I'm at a comfortable place in my life, and it's something that I've dealt with, something that's been in my family on both my mother's side and my father's side. I think it's important for people to be more aware of it, to know that you can get help and still carry on and lead a fairly normal life, be successful and pursue your dreams. It's taken me a long time to not be embarrassed or ashamed. In spite of it all, I was still able...
...think it's a very common thing, especially that generation. My dad would come home from work and they'd have their cocktail hour. My father had two brothers who committed suicide. [There's] a lot of alcoholism on both my mother's side and my father's side, so there is certainly a huge stigma with that. And also people who were depressed or not able to function would [be] sent away. I just remember my mother at times, we'd be so frustrated because we wouldn't understand why she was acting...
...performance, Ashley asked how they felt about a five-time murderer now that they know him a little better. "Did you feel yourself compelled or repulsed by him?" Some audience members said they felt empathy for the goal-obsessed Reyes who could never live up to his father's or his own expectations. "I think this is a shocking morality play," an elderly woman said. Others saw the play as about the space people in live in, celebrity, life, death and the consequences of not being able to find oneself. At least one audience member had a personal connection...
...Reyes, played by Daniel Torres, but anyone even vaguely familiar with the actual events will recognize the plotline. Like Cunanan, Reyes is a gay Filipino-American who attended a ritzy, exclusive school and who knew how to charm his way into the right circles. Reyes is driven by his father to excel and for a while he does get a taste of a life that lies beyond his family's means. But after his La Jolla sugar daddy catches him with a younger man, Reyes' life spirals into a downward haze of methamphetamine and menial jobs. Reyes then snaps...
...father was murdered, not directly but effectively, by the Germans. So I don't feel sympathy for that generation," he said. "But I am a realist. The world has changed. From the period of wars, borders and communism we are passing to the period of ideas , information and globalization. A generation is passing from that one to this one? - and Grass, he said, is helping int that transition...