PAST READINGS
Provincetown Players
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On Her Shoulders - Les Blancs
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September 16th, 2013Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey
Directed by: Ludovica Villar-Hauser Dramaturgy by: Elizabeth Whitney Shelagh Delaney was one of the most innovative playwrights of the Twentieth Century. Her most celebrated play, A Taste of Honey, featured realistic characters who were working class, gay, black, northern & feminist in1950s Britain, whose mainstream remained publicly repressed, hideously white and middle class. What is all the more remarkable is that she wrote this play when she was just 18. The play was picked up by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in London's Stratford and was first performed on May 27, 1958. It went on to a West End run and was produced with Joan Plowright and Angela Lansbury on Broadway. Delaney co-wrote the 1961 screenplay of the same name with Tony Richardson, which won the BAFTA that year. She continued writing until her death in 2011, with numerous recordings for BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play slots and the acclaimed 1985 film, Dance With a Stranger. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature that same year.
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On Her Shoulders - A Taste of Honey
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August 12th, 2013Susan Glaspell's The Verge
Directed by: Melissa Attebery Dramaturgy by: Andrea Lepcio Susan Glaspell was a turn of the century playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer, poet, and journalist. She also founded the Provincetown Players with her husband George Cook and discovered Eugene O'Neill. Most famous for Trifles, Glaspell wrote 14 plays including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Allison's House.
Her last play, The Verge, is set in 1921 just after World War I. In this expressionist exploration of a woman's struggle against societal and familial expectations, Claire Archer desires to create new plant life forms in her greenhouse. Her husband, daughter, sister and friends try to divert her from her quest, but Claire is determined to break free. Form mirrors content as realism fractures and strange things are made new. |
July 15th, 2013Cicely Hamilton's Diana of Dobsons
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On Her Shoulders - Diana of Dobsons |
Rachel Crothers' A MAN'S WORLD
Directed by: Melissa Crespo Dramaturgy by: Jane Ann Crum
Directed by: Melissa Crespo Dramaturgy by: Jane Ann Crum