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"Crazy Mama:" Sharon Scott Williams on Love, Loss & Mental Illness
In this episode of Ojai Talk of the Town, we sit down with Ojai resident Sharon Scott Williams, whose deeply personal memoir Crazy Mama has been transformed into a riveting one-woman play, premiering at the Rubicon Theatre from March 27 to April 13. Starring the incomparable star of stage and screen Linda Purl, the production brings to life 16 characters in a raw, heartbreaking, yet often humorous exploration of a daughter’s decades-long struggle to save her mother from the grip of paranoid schizophrenia.
We talk with Sharon about the painful yet redemptive journey that shaped her story —…
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