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Lucky Me - Shirley Maclaine's Daughter at Theatre Artists Workshop

SHIRLEY MACLAINE’S DAUGHTER AT THEATRE ARTISTS WORKSHOP


When Sachi Parker was just two years old, her mother, the self-involved, Oscar winning super star, Shirley Maclaine, shipped her off to Japan to live with her father, the often absent, master con man, Steve Parker, his Japanese mistress and a devout Shinto governess who indoctrinated Sachi in the Japanese ways of meekness, subservience and obedience to a male dominated society.


When it was convenient for her mother, Sachi would be flown back to the U.S. for a visit that would alternate between intensely loving and suddenly cold and distant.

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That bizarre childhood and the devastating, sometimes hilarious effect it had on her adult life, her career, her relationships with men, her frustrating attempts to have a normal relationship with her mother and her entirely different, loving relationship with her children are the subject of “Lucky Me,” her fascinating, funny one woman play that she will perform at the Theatre Artists Workshop Fri.and Sat., Dec. 13 and 14, at 8, and Sun., Dec.15, at 3.


The Workshop, founded in 1983 as a non-profit organization of professional actors,writers and directors by stage and film star Keir Dullea and his late wife, director Susie Fuller, is located at 5 Gregory Blvd., Norwalk. Tickets are $20, reservations 203-854-6830 or www.taworkshop.org.

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