Meet Beach Vickers (Maraczek)
What’s your favorite way to communicate your feelings to a loved one?
My favorite way to communicate feelings to a loved one is to tease them, and, I hope, make them laugh–and so if I tease you, watch out!
Have you ever had a work-related romance? If so… how’d it go?
I’ve probably had some inner-show cast crushes, which could be considered a work-related romance of sorts. They have the added convenience of a clean route of escape, if necessary, when the show closes. But one time an actress who played my onstage wife and I grew so tight, we started to annoy each other a lot and so completely stopped speaking offstage, which actually enhanced our onstage performances because, darn it, if we were gonna let the other person out-act us! P.S. We’re still friends.
Write out your personal ad.
Currently jolly ol’ soul, but always happy to trade that self-identity for a new one. Why pigeon-hole yourself to always stay the same? (You know we Geminis face at least two directions at once.) Seeking anybody who can talk and listen at the same time, like me, because I don’t like taking turns.
Tell us about something that happened on a blind/first date.
I think all dates are blind, if you think about it.
Do you have a favorite moment in the play?
My favorite moments in the play is: as the shopkeeper Maraczek, when I get to frighten my employees just by walking into the same room.
What do you connect to in this story?
One connection to this play for me is that I remember some years back when I lived overseas essentially without phone or computer access and so hand-wrote letters home, the anticipation of how long they would take to get there and how long it would take to get an answer back gave me a funny kind of feeling that I miss now and can hardly hope to experience anymore in this day of phones in our pockets and high-speed internet.
Tell us something most people don’t know about you.
I was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Afghanistan and South Korea for a total of five years before most of you were born.
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