Jul 12, 2026 · 38 min · 16 segments
Patrick Dooley and Alicia Mason speak about the parallels between the Greek myth and Gary Owen's modern Iphigenia in Shotgun Players' first one-person play. Mason plays Effie, a self-determined, messy…
Alicia MasonGuest
Patrick DooleyHost
Maybe in that department it doesn't exist, but it's not like you could be like, well, why is that? Why are we asking this person to have to shoulder the burden of choices that are being made beyond
her? yeah and I think that's also the very interesting and beautiful thing about this play is what written in 2015 probably a little bit before that right and yet it is so it is still so prevalent and it breaks my heart to think in 10 years is it still going to be prevalent
and I see it in my communities I see it You know, for me, you know, my my mom is black and she comes from a very poor town in South Carolina.
And, you know, knowing especially what black communities go through regarding health care, women's health care.
I'm wondering what you, when you were preparing, so you went to the, we had multiple auditions for this role because it's such a challenging role.
Maybe in that department it doesn't exist, but it's not like you could be like, well, why is that? Why are we asking this person to have to shoulder the burden of choices that are being made beyond
her? yeah and I think that's also the very interesting and beautiful thing about this play is what written in 2015 probably a little bit before that right and yet it is so it is still so prevalent and it breaks my heart to think in 10 years is it still going to be prevalent
and I see it in my communities I see it You know, for me, you know, my my mom is black and she comes from a very poor town in South Carolina.
And, you know, knowing especially what black communities go through regarding health care, women's health care.
I'm wondering what you, when you were preparing, so you went to the, we had multiple auditions for this role because it's such a challenging role.
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