It was presented for a week at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara before touring the United States for a year in a production sponsored by CAMI.
Redgrave was a shy and somewhat sickly child who saw little of her busy father when growing up, and lived very much in a fantasy world of her own making.
The "memory and message" play gave her an opportunity to slip into many of the characters, following her father's life through to his death from Parkinson's disease, and her ultimate forgiveness of his failure as a parent.
[3] Patti Hartigan of The Boston Globe described the play as a "triumph",[4] and Lloyd Rose of The Washington Post said of Redgrave's performance, "Particularly when she is not speaking, her face can seem to hold an impossible number of emotions simultaneously, yet such fullness of feeling is mysteriously unreadable.
"[5] Variety described Redgrave's performance as "brilliant and extremely moving" and said, "At the end, Lynn gestures to that photograph, sharing her well-deserved applause with the man who could never acknowledge her talent.