Perspectives / Ray Fry Actor Ray Fry regularly appeared in Humana Festival plays from the late 1970s through the late 1990s. Marsha Norman’s Getting Out was rehearsed in the old ballet studio on Walnut Street across from the Pendennis Club. Somehow everyone involved sensed that we were dealing with something very special. Ordinarily when actors are not actively engaged in rehearsal, they go off in a corner and read a newspaper, or work a crossword puzzle, or study their lines. But not this time. Everyone sat around engrossed in the rehearsal process. I had never worked with a more dedicated group of people. And that dedication was evident in the final product. Uncle Watson lived next door to the women in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart. He would appear occasionally, take the cookie jar from the top of the refrigerator, and settle down. From time to time he would make a remark, not particularly related to anything that was going on. There was, however, a dividend. He sat there and watched Susan Kingsley and Kathy Bates work together and ate cookies. Unfortunately when Crimes of the Heart made the trip to New York, Uncle Watson was not on board. It must have been a shock to the cookie business.