Readings at the Gershwin
adventurous new plays
by women writers
FALL 2000: Four
fantastic tales from the edge
Mondays in October at
7:00 pm
The Gershwin
Hotel
7
East 27th Street (Fifth/Madison Aves)
Admission is Free
October 9
- EYE OF THE STORM: A SHIPWRECK TETRALOGY by Hilary
Bell
Wreckage,
The Bog Queen, Orilla Del Mundo, Tom and Eva - four connected short
plays
which share shipwrecks as their catalysts. Ranging in style from
lyrical
tragedy, to Seussian folklore, to musical high camp, to icy ghost
story,
the pieces are intertwined so that each is intensified by the others.
CAST:
Carolyn Baeumler, Paul Vincent Black, John McAdams, Jesse J. Perez, Molly
Powell, Ninon Rogers, Dale Soules
October 16
- THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS by
Brooke
Berman
A
Vassar student, his suburban parents, a movie star, a drifter and an
unlikely
prophetess are all seeking happiness, to the third degree, like
burns,
in Larchmont, New York, and the mythological Triple Happiness.
CAST:
Carolyn Baeumler, Paul Vincent Black, Stacie Chaiken, Erin Gann, Nina Hellman,
Peter Jacobson
October 23
- THE ADVENTURES OF HERCULINA by Kira
Obolensky
Herculina's
adventures take her from a French convent school
to
an encounter with Sarah Bernhardt, from the boudoir of a bawdy British
prostitute
to
a sideshow of freaks, raising questions of gender, sexuality, and above
all, the essence of love.
CAST:
Carolyn Baeumler, Carla Harting, Nina Hellman, Albert Macklin, Jeremy Shamos,
Dale Soules, Fred Velde
October 30
- RED FROGS (a slapstick mirror for the summer purgatorio) by Ruth
Margraff
As
a great flood recedes from Coney Island to Nantucket, Beatifica Strata
strains to keep her status
despite
the insurgency of the Chaplin girls bursting on her doorstep.
RED
FROGS is part Aristophanes, part Karl Marx and shamelessly burlesque.
CAST:
Carolyn Baeumler, Michi Barall, Marissa Copeland, Carla Harting, Nina Hellman,
Steven Rattazzi
Readings
directed by Elyse Singer
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