Siobhan O’Loughlin is tired. As her “cast” of friends files into the bathroom of a third-floor walk-up in Rogers Park on November 1, the actress’s head rests heavily in the crook of her rainbow cast-clad arm.
“You don’t see your friends for months and months, and then you’re like, ‘What’s going on?’ she said. “They’re giving me a bath and I’m telling them about what’s happened to me, and they’re telling me about what they’ve been through.”
But she’s found joy in the struggles and changes in the environment, as well.
Participating in the production and administrative aspects of her own show has had an effect on her capacity for creativity, O’Loughlin says. The documentary she is now directing is an effort to continue promoting the message of Broken Bone Bathtub—strength in vulnerability—in addition to encouraging other artists to foster community through their own work.
They answer them for her anyway. v
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