but she represents the women of the guller region.he grew up in hiltonhead and then moved to texasith her husband at the time. and unfortunately circumstances land her in a texas prison. where she meets susanna who is a song collector fm the library of congress. and she hears pearl's amazing voice and wants to record her and save the songs from people from -- rht before slavery and sores from africa so t is a tug-of-war, which pearl wants tl get out of j and find her daughter and what susanna wants is to collect the songs and get this great job a>>harvard. ou played this role before. how does this production differ from your prior production. >> wre in a different space and a different director, tom jones is directing this one and he's directed many things i've be in, including betsy blues when i won a helen hayes award for and we've been working together for 25 years so that is different and i'm different. i' a little bit older a wiser. done a lot more research on the people and found out my connection to the guller region and so tha