And while Corman re-enacts many conversations with a famous woman whom she calls her “angel” and who became her close confidante after the arrest – although they had never previously met – she refuses to disclose the person’s identity. Almost no mention is made of her other family members (most notably, Alexander’s mother, actress Jane Alexander). While Corman does talk about her husband and her children at many points during the play, she does not, by and large, tell us much about their actions (or reactions) during this crisis. What’s also brave is that Corman sticks to her guns about making the piece “her” story. That she has chosen to share how she handled this life-changing event, primarily in the year following the incident, is more than accidentally brave it’s purposefully so. It’s the kind of unthinkable situation the long-married, suburban-dwelling mother of three never expected to face, and one which she freely admits she’s still dealing with day-by-day in 2019. If you don’t already know (and if that’s the case, you will find out quickly enough), in 2015, Corman’s husband, director Jace Alexander, was suddenly arrested for possession of child pornography found on his home computer. “This is not supposed to be my life,” Maddie Corman screams – more than once – on the stage of the DR2 Theatre during the 90 minutes of her painfully honest and surprisingly humorous bioplay “Accidentally Brave.” It’s the kind of universal statement that makes us feel like we’ve all been in Corman’s shoes what New Yorker hasn’t uttered those words while on a delayed subway train or during a terrible day at work? But it’s very unlikely more than a few audience members have ever been in the same circumstance of this appealing, down-to-earth actress.
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