Join Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Lillian Hellman,
Dorothy Parker and Agatha Christie in the
What-If Dinner Party of Your Dreams
LITTLE WARS
Written By Steven Carl McCasland
Part of the Celebration of the Plays of Steven Carl McCasland
Featuring 5 Plays in Repertory at New York City's Clarion Theatre
LITTLE WARS, a new play by Steven Carl McCasland, will be presented this May at New York City's Clarion Theatre.
It's France, 1940. Tensions are high. The booze is flowing. War is coming. Inspired by one of the literary world's most famous scandals, Steven Carl McCasland's LITTLE WARS features Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Agatha Christie, Alice B. Toklas and Muriel Gardiner having the best what-if dinner party imaginable. Together they'll drink, scoff and face their demons. Everyone has a confession. Someone has a secret.
LITTLE WARS is part of the month-long celebration of five plays by Steven Carl McCasland running in repertory from May 7 through May 31 at The Clarion Theatre. Each play focuses on a different real-life story, with a cast of 25 portraying some of history's most intriguing characters. View the trailer atwww.tinyurl.com/InRepertory.
The cast of LITTLE WARS features Polly McKie as Gertrude Stein, Pennylynn White as Alice B. Toklas,Kristen Gehling as Muriel Gardner, Kimberly Faye Greenberg as Lillian Hellman, Kim Rogers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Weems as Dorothy Parker and Samantha Hoefer as Bernadette.
The performance schedule for LITTLE WARS is as follows:
Thursday, May 7 at 7pm
Saturday, May 9 at 5pm
Wednesday, May 13 at 2pm
Sunday, May 17 at 1pm
Friday, May 22 at 8pm
Saturday, May 23 at 8pm
Sunday, May 24 at 2pm
Wednesday, May 27 at 7pm
Saturday, May 30 at 8pm
Lighting design is by Molly Tied. Costume design is by Somie Pak. Hailli Ridsdale is the production stage manager. John Capo Public Relations is the publicist.
Tickets can be purchased at http://BeautifulSoup.Showclix.com.
The Clarion Theatre is located at 309 East 26th Street in New York City.
About The Author
Steven Carl McCasland is the founder and Artistic Director of The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, for which he has directed Lift, Rags, Moose Murders, Yentl, A Doll's Life, Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles, Twelfth Night, Crossing Brooklyn and more. He also directed the world premieres of his plays neat & tidy, BLACK [Billy Learns About Captain Kirk] and BLUE: a fable. Beautiful Soup was founded in the summer of 2010. Steven received his Bachelor in Arts for Directing from Pace University.
McCasland's revivals of Rags and A Doll's Life featured heavily revised librettos, painstakingly put together using many lost drafts. The end results were comprehensive looks at long-troubled musicals in rare New York revivals.
In the spring of 2006, he founded Group Therapy Productions, the first student-run production company on campus. He produced and directed ten theatrical productions during his four years at Pace University, including an outdoor production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the school's courtyard. Other productions include A Streetcar Named Desire, Dog Sees God, Death of a Salesman, Antigone, Medea, Falsettos, Proof, The Laramie Project and The Diary of Anne Frank.
In 2009, Steven was commissioned to adapt poet Jack Wiler's anthologies into a solo performance about Wiler's struggle with HIV. That play, Fun Being Me, was workshopped with Jack in the title role before his passing in 2009. His other plays, When I'm 64, Hope & Glory, The Tip, Opheliacs Anonymous, Fifth Position, Blue, Pulchritudinous (Huntington Award in Playwriting - First Place), neat & tidy and Billy Learns About Captain Kirk have all received productions regionally and in Manhattan.
A classically trained pianist, Steven's musical direction and conducting credits include Falsettos, The Wizard of Oz, Aida, Godspell, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Imagine That, The Secret Garden and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
In June of 2011, Steven premiered his original adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Setting Wonderland in the heart of Paris, he also directed. After its one week workshop, Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles was picked up for an extended run at The SoHo Playhouse through September. His play neat & tidy made a splash on the Bowery in May of 2012, with critics hailing the play as one of the Top Dramatic Plays of the year.
While not at the theater, Steven maintains life as a private vocal and acting coaching, prepping New York actors on new material and for upcoming auditions. In addition, he runs a blog of free, public domain monologues, all written by him.
In Repertory
LITTLE WARS is being presented in repertory with What Was Lost, 28 Marchant Avenue, neat & tidy and Der Kanarienvogel (The Canary).
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