Martin Sheen article in the New York Times
Our narrator for Return to El Salvador, Martin Sheen, was interviewed for the New York Times around the opening of a Los Angeles production of the play "The Subject Was Roses". Interesting production note: Sheen completed narration for Return to El Salvador the day before rehearsals began for this play. One of the hardest working men in show business or social justice. We're honored to be allied with him.
Here's the article:
Sheen’s Circle, From Son to Father

LOS ANGELES — In a dressing room at the Mark Taper Forum here, some 46 years in the life of Martin Sheen seemed to disappear. He was discussing the play “The Subject Was Roses,” both his breakout performance on Broadway as the son in 1964 and his current role as the father in the production that opened at the theater on Sunday.
The drama, by Frank D. Gilroy, tells the story of a young, idealistic soldier who returns from World War II to his parents’ New York apartment to find their marriage in shambles. The original production ran for nearly two years and won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play. Mr. Sheen and Jack Albertson, as the father, were both nominated for the best actor Tony (Mr. Albertson won), toured in the play and starred in the 1968 film version with Patricia Neal (Mr. Albertson winning an Oscar).
Fast forward more than four decades, and Mr. Sheen is gaining new respect for an actor who has been dead for 28 years.
“Jack Albertson had this tremendous acting talent, and I remember just watching his body shake with emotion during certain lines,” Mr. Sheen recalled during a break between rehearsal and a recent preview. “I kept telling myself in this production that he wasn’t going to bother me. But I hear him in certain inflections in my voice.”
The story itself has also endured, Mr. Sheen said, as a simple, timeless portrait of a family. “We’re all struggling with this basic need to know our worth,” he said. “Love is so scarce, and this play focuses on that. If you don’t leave home with the true sanctity of being, you won’t see that sanctity in anyone else.” *Read full article here*


