- Lisa Ebright
- Mary Zimmerman
Blame the holiday crunch. Questions I submitted for director and playwright Mary Zimmerman before writing this week’s column didn’t make their way to her—and her responses didn’t get to me—until after deadline.
The column is about objections Silk Road Rising artistic director Jamil Khoury raised after reading Zimmerman’s comments in a Chicago magazine interview about her new musical, The Jungle Book. (The play, based on the Disney movie and Rudyard Kipling’s stories, is now running at the Goodman Theatre.) Khoury was concerned about Zimmerman’s portrayal of Silk Road people; she quickly arranged to get together with him to talk it over.
Here are some of Zimmerman’s answers to me, dashed off, she explained, before she had to leave for a second get-together with Khoury and Silk Road executive director Malik Gillani—this time for dinner.
