SSC presents "Virginia" staged reading on 25 Jan
For literary-minded peeps who may live in the NYC area, check out the following event being run by my awesome sister Kristin:
THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP
in association with the
SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER COMPANY
presents
a staged reading of
Edna O'Brien's award-winning stageplay
Virginia
in honor of Mrs. Woolf's 127th birthday
Sunday, January 25th at 12:30pm
Arthur Seelen Theater
Edna O'Brien's spectacular play encompasses Virginia Woolf's mercurial inner life, as well as the relationships of her three great loves: her husband Leonard, her lover Vita, and her greatest writings. O'Brien touches the heart and captures the essence of Woolf's character and her brilliant mind.
Running time is 90 minutes, plus a post-performance Q&A with author Anne Fernald, director Joannie Mackenzie, and SSC Artistic Director Kris Lundberg.
Directed by Joannie Mackenzie
Starring Kris Lundberg as Virginia, David McCamish as Leonard, and Shelley Ray as Vita
*All performers appear courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association*
Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter, known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women. She has written 13 novels, five collections of short stories and several plays and screenplays. Her writing is lyrical and intense with passion and longing. The influence of her Catholic upbringing is apparent in much of her work, which depicts both Irish village life during the 1940's and 1950's and contemporary urban settings.
Anne E. Fernald is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006). She is currently at work on a textual edition of Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press. Fernald is an Associate Professor of English at Fordham University where she is also the Director of Writing and Composition at the Lincoln Center campus. She writes a literary blog, Fernham, named for the town in which Woolf's narrator gets lost in A Room of One's Own. Raised in Seattle, educated at Wellesley and Yale, she now lives with her husband and two young daughters in Jersey City.
The Arthur Seelen Theater is located on the ground floor of the Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue (map).
Event is free to the public with a suggested $10 donation in support of the Shakespeare's Sister Company.
For more information, visit shakespearessister.org and the Facebook event page.
The Shakespeare's Sister Company is a fully incorporated New York non-profit theater company and operates under the 501(c)3 umbrella organization, Fractured Atlas. Shakespeare's Sister Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of the SSC may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP
in association with the
SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER COMPANY
presents
a staged reading of
Edna O'Brien's award-winning stageplay
Virginia
in honor of Mrs. Woolf's 127th birthday
Sunday, January 25th at 12:30pm
Arthur Seelen Theater
Edna O'Brien's spectacular play encompasses Virginia Woolf's mercurial inner life, as well as the relationships of her three great loves: her husband Leonard, her lover Vita, and her greatest writings. O'Brien touches the heart and captures the essence of Woolf's character and her brilliant mind.
Running time is 90 minutes, plus a post-performance Q&A with author Anne Fernald, director Joannie Mackenzie, and SSC Artistic Director Kris Lundberg.
Directed by Joannie Mackenzie
Starring Kris Lundberg as Virginia, David McCamish as Leonard, and Shelley Ray as Vita
*All performers appear courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association*
Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter, known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women. She has written 13 novels, five collections of short stories and several plays and screenplays. Her writing is lyrical and intense with passion and longing. The influence of her Catholic upbringing is apparent in much of her work, which depicts both Irish village life during the 1940's and 1950's and contemporary urban settings.
Anne E. Fernald is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006). She is currently at work on a textual edition of Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press. Fernald is an Associate Professor of English at Fordham University where she is also the Director of Writing and Composition at the Lincoln Center campus. She writes a literary blog, Fernham, named for the town in which Woolf's narrator gets lost in A Room of One's Own. Raised in Seattle, educated at Wellesley and Yale, she now lives with her husband and two young daughters in Jersey City.
The Arthur Seelen Theater is located on the ground floor of the Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue (map).
Event is free to the public with a suggested $10 donation in support of the Shakespeare's Sister Company.
For more information, visit shakespearessister.org and the Facebook event page.
The Shakespeare's Sister Company is a fully incorporated New York non-profit theater company and operates under the 501(c)3 umbrella organization, Fractured Atlas. Shakespeare's Sister Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of the SSC may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.