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Joyce Garbs

Joyce Garbs

Theatre director, assistant director, and production chairperson at Engle Lane Theatre (Community Players of Streator) in Streator, Illinois.

Sep 15, 2026

2:34
It sounds like it's deep and it can be, but it's also very funny.
2:39
There's some very hilarious...
2:42
Parts of it, I guarantee if you don't laugh, you're not paying attention because the characters are so real.
2:49
And part of the reason for that, we did auditions back in March and we started what was called Table Talks, which we did through Zoom.
2:58
And we would group them like maybe the patients in one Zoom and the nurses at another time to help develop their characters.
3:07
And we would ask them like, what about yourself? do you see in this role? What do you not see? How can we develop it? By the time we got done with the Zooms and actually hit the stage in person in June, they already had their characters developed.
3:23
They'd formed this camaraderie and this bond between each other just from over the Zoom sessions.
7:14
Will the audience be able to interpret that as well? Will the audience be able to see those relationships and those characters come to life?

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