Grief takes two women down parallel paths to peace
Living September 18, 2003
Grief takes two women down parallel paths to peace, by Stuart Low
Pamela Sherman, a former Washington, D.C. lawyer who moved to Pittsford, last year, was shaken when her best friend died suddenly at age 35. Sherman’s struggle to organize the funeral while caring for her newborn baby became Pumping Josey: Life and Death in Suburbia, co-written by Washington playwright, Caleen Sinnette Jennings…
In Josey, Sherman plays nine characters in the course of an hour. These include the ambitious actuary Josey and her heroines Mary Todd Lincoln and Anna Freud. Meanwhile, an on-stage movie screen shows images of suburban cookie cutter homes, underscoring Josey’s frustration with the isolation of suburbia….
[Sherman sees] Rochester as an ideal springboard for launching plays.
“The opportunities came because we were here,” says Sherman. To prove it, the next stop for Josey will be at a prestigious Washington theater next June.