Friday, January 30, 2015
3:00 pm at the DR2 Theatre
Chester Bailey
by Joseph Dougherty
directed by Ron Lagomarsino
Chester Bailey will be read by Mark Blum* (The Model Apartment, The Assembled Parties) and Noah Robbins* (Punk Rock, The Vandal). *courtesy of AEA
In Joseph Dougherty’s Chester Bailey, a young man recovers from catastrophic injuries in a stateside hospital at the close of World War II. Or so the doctors have told him. But Chester Bailey denies what’s happened to him has actually happened. Which is how he comes under the care of Dr. Philip Cotton. Older and wounded in his own ways, Cotton is charged with leading Chester back to a reality consisting of pain and loss. The journey is not what either man expected.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
3:00 pm at the DR2 Theatre
Louise Brooks: For the Hell of It
by Janet Noble
Louise Brooks: For The Hell Of It will be read by Quentin Maré* (Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Castle), Howard McGillin* (Gigi, It’s A Wonderful Life) and Maryann Plunkett* (The Apple Family Plays, A Man For All Seasons) *courtesy of AEA
Louise Brooks: For The Hell Of It is a ghost play, a cosmic encounter of this legendary silent film star with two men who figured prominently in her life: Jim Tully, the Irish American writer whom she met at the top of her Hollywood career while on location starring in Beggars of Life, the film adaptation of his novel; and James Card who met her much later and influenced her out of a bottle in NYC and up to the Eastman House film archive in Rochester where she was rediscovered and feted internationally by the likes of Henri Langlois at the Cinematheque Francaise and ultimately found a second career writing about cinema.
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