In Rehearsal for Tonight’s ‘Trying’

The cast in rehearsal today for tonight’s Westport Country Playhouse script-in-hand play reading of “Trying.” The play, by Joanna McClelland Glass and directed by Anne Keefe, is based on the author’s experience during 1967-68 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home office in Washington D.C. The play tells the story of a young Canadian girl and an old Philadelphia aristocrat “trying” to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life. Pictured are Helen Cespedes reading the role of Sarah Schorr, Edward Herrmann as Judge Francis Biddle, and Star Herrmann, Edward’s wife, providing stage directions. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com