One of the things that is so interesting about the play is that it’s a play about a woman who has a job, and so much of the story functions around that, which seems unusual. I think that my Esther today is much richer than she would have been had I played her five years ago. I’ve gone through many, many experiences, some very good, some horrible, that certainly inform my work today. When I first read the play-that was over a decade ago-and now I’m much older. I don’t know that the way I portrayed Esther two years ago has changed much from the way I’m portraying her now. I did a reading of this play a couple of years ago, and that’s when I worked with Jade King Carroll, our director. And I don’t remember the production I did in Atlanta in 2004, so it was sort of like starting from scratch. Lynn is one of those writers that just gives you everything and you don’t really have to put anything on top of it. And I think I’ve done that in my portrayal of her. I was the reader for some of the early auditions, and I played Mayme in an earlier production, and I always had a sense of how I would want to play Esther, were I given the chance. Did you always have an idea of how you wanted to play it or how you would play it? I know this is a play that you’ve known for a while. So I just went with the words and took it from there. For this, Lynn gives you everything you need on the page. What was your entry point for the character of Esther? Do you work inside-out or outside-in? On her day off from performances, we sat down with Quincy to discuss Intimate Apparel and her career. As Esther, she plays a seamstress at the beginning of the 20 th Century who is navigating her career, and the complicated relationships with her clientele and the men that come into her life. She’s currently starring in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, directed by Jade King Carroll at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Quincy has made a name for herself as one of the go-to actresses of the theatre community and has delivered a wide range of insightful performances in diverse work ranging from Small Mouth Sounds to Grand Concourse to Mr. A commonality among many of the playwrights who have been featured on The Interval is having had Quincy Tyler Bernstine appear in their plays.
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