![]() One thing still too raw is reciting his first letter home.ĭuring rehearsals, Altshuler gently guides Hayes into taking advantage of the whole stage and incorporating movement. “There's a line I have to be careful of because this stuff is so personal and so powerful that I don't want to fall down and break down on the stage,” he said. ![]() Hayes, who built a career as an actor and director, is fit and trim - a result of years of yoga - and quick to laugh (He jokes that his education includes “five years of extracurricular work at Istanbul U.” ) But he can also instantly go back to the terror of Sagmalcilar prison. But people relate to their own crises and being as down as you can be and still finding a way out to come out, finding the light.” Mine was just a little bit more compact and dramatic. “It's my little, particular story but it affects everyone. “What I discovered was there's a story that resonates still with people. ![]() I was like, 'No, I'm still talking about this and people are sick of hearing it,'” said Hayes, whose business card is decorated with a little train track. In the show, Hayes recounts his story alone, with just a few projections, a stool and a bottle of water. ![]() Now he's turned it into a 70-minute stage show, which comes to the Barrow Street Theatre following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ![]()
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