| New Richard Nelson Zoom Apple Family Play To Premiere on July 1 at 7:30 PM | |
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| APPLE FAMILY PRODUCTIONS TO STREAM WORLD PREMIERE PLAY AND SO WE COME FORTH The Apple Family: A Dinner on Zoom WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 Written and Directed by Richard Nelson Featuring Stephen Kunken, Sally Murphy, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins and Jay O. Sanders The Latest Apple Family Play in the Acclaimed Rhinebeck Panorama Will Support The Actors Fund June 25, 2020 – Apple Family Productions announces the world premiere of AND SO WE COME FORTH: The Apple Family: A Dinner on Zoom, the latest play in the Rhinebeck Panorama, written and directed by Tony Award winner Richard Nelson, on Wednesday, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET. The play, written by Nelson from his home in Rhinebeck, New York, will be available to watch for free on YouTube and also at http://www.theapplefamilyplays.com and will continue for eight weeks. The Apple Family, a dramatic series of plays which first appeared 10 years ago, returned last April with the premiere of a play written especially for Zoom, What Do We Need to Talk About? Now this second Zoom play, And So We Come Forth is set in early July 2020, amidst massive protests against injustice and racism in our country, as well as the anxious easing of a worldwide lockdown. Over a family dinner, and over Zoom, the Apples talk about their fears and hopes, who they are, what has been lost, and where they now belong in a world that keeps becoming more and more uncertain. “For the past decade, the Apples, the Gabriels, and the Michaels have given an intimate glimpse into families talking, reacting and questioning the world we live in now. I’m proud to be reunited again with the cast of the Apple Family plays to be able to share another Zoom play, written in this time of global crisis,” said Playwright and Director Richard Nelson. “The last Zoom play was a fundraiser for The Public Theater which has nurtured and produced so much of my work, and for this play, the cast wanted to support The Actors Fund since so many in our performing arts and entertainment community are out of work due to the pandemic. We will be producing AND SO WE COME FORTH independently and on our own YouTube Channel this time, and I hope viewers who are missing theater will welcome the Apples back into their homes.” AND SO WE COME FORTH features Stephen Kunken (Tim), Sally Murphy (Jane), Maryann Plunkett (Barbara), Laila Robins (Marian), and Jay O. Sanders (Richard) who will be performing from their homes. (Running time is approximately 70 minutes.) The first Zoom Play, What Do We Need to Talk About?, can still be viewed until June 28, 2020 here. Nelson’s four original Apple Family Plays and The Gabriels trilogy are available to stream for free to the New York Metro area on THIRTEEN’s Theater Close-Up website: thirteen.org/theatercloseup. RICHARD NELSON (Playwright and Director). What Do We Need to Talk About? premiered on April 29, 2020 and has been viewed more than 80,000 times, in over 30 countries. His other plays include The Michaels, Illyria, The Gabriels, The Apple Family Plays, Nikolai and The Others, Farewell to the Theatre, Conversations in Tusculum, Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award, Best Play), Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination, Best Play), Some Americans Abroad (Olivier nomination, Best Comedy), and others. His musicals include James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey, Tony Award Best Book of a Musical); his screenplays include Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, director). With Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, he has co-translated plays by Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, and Bulgakov. He is an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels “Master Playwright” Award. THE ACTORS FUND is a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. Through offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Fund serves everyone in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance with programs including social services and emergency financial assistance, health care and insurance counseling, housing, and secondary employment and training services. To donate, visit: |
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| Link | http://www.theapplefamilyplays.com |
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