| 2/6/21: THE OUTSIDE on Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:10 pm EST 02/02/21 | |
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| THE OUTSIDE by Susan Glaspell Pulitzer Prize Winner's expressionistic embrace of the unknown February 6, 2021 at 8 pm Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free "screened" readings, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: THE OUTSIDE, Susan Glaspell. 2/6/2021 at 8:00 pm through 2/10/2021 at 10:00 pm Running Time: 60 minutes Free of charge Available at: www.metropolitanplayhouse.org. The video will be available through Wednesday, 2/3/21 on the Playhouse webpage, the Metropolitan Playhouse YouTube channel, and the Metropolitan Playhouse Facebook page. At the far outer shore of the Cape--called "The Outside" by locals--a reclusive city woman dwells in an abandoned life saving station. Alone but for a silent young widow to help keep house, she spurns the comforts of civilization to embrace life where life cannot survive. When a drowned man is brought to the shelter by a life saving crew, the women are forced to reveal their pasts and face their futures. An expressionistic play that seeks to perceive the unknowable and capture the elusive, THE OUTSIDE is one of Susan Glaspell's most daring and soulful one-acts. It is a feminist cri de coeur and a defiant affirmation of life at its elemental. Discussion including audience participation follow the readings, with special guest Sharon Friedman, Glaspell scholar and associate professor at NYU's Gallatin School for Independent Study Directed by Rachael Langton, the cast features Lluvia Almanza, David Patrick Ford, Jonathan Horvath, Teresa Kelsey, James Ross. Settings by Liz Engelhardt. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a well-known and best-selling author, and her one-act play Trifles is a staple of American anthologies. But after her death her work fell into relative obscurity. In the 70s her work received new attention and now she is recognized as an important feminist voice from the early century, though it is still rarely seen. The daughter of a hay farmer and school-teacher in rural Iowa, earned her BA at Drake University in 1899 and began work as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News. She returned in 1901 to Davenport to concentrate on creative writing, and by 1911 had published two novels and stories in numerous magazines. In 1913, she married Cook, and to escape the gossip of their Mid Western community--he was already twice divorced, and a socialist who had given up a university career to truck farm--the two resettled among like-minded political and artistic spirits, including John Reed, in Greenwich Village. Glaspell and Cook were among the founders of the Provincetown Playhouse, established with friends from New York in the summer of 1915 on a wharf building in Provincetown, MA. But after seven years steering that renowned institution through its triumphs in New York, they grew disenchanted with the Broadway aspirations and infighting of fellow Players, and left to live a simple, rustic life in Greece in 1922. She returned to settle in Provincetown following Cook's death in 1924, from a disease caught from his pet dog. She continued writing, chiefly novels, though this was the period during which she produced Alison's House. She also served for a director of the Midwest Play Bureau for the WPA's Federal Theater Project in 1936, but resigned after two years. Returning again to Provincetown, she devoted her remaining years to writing fiction. Among her 15 plays are the one-acts Suppressed Desires (1915, with Cook), and Trifles (1916), and full-length plays Inheritors (1921, produced b y Metropolitan in 2005), The Verge (1921) and Alison's House (1930, produced by Metropolitan in 2015). UPCOMING Metropolitan presents readings every Saturday at 8 pm, Eastern Time February 27, 2021 The Valiant, byHolworth Hall and Robert Middlemass A murderer with a secret, ready to face society's demands, until the arrival of a girl claiming to be his long-lost sister.... The VIRTUAL PLAYHOUSE began on March 28, 2020. Exploring the possibilities of ""remote"" ensemble, Metropolitan has pushed the envelope of Zoom broadcasts, with increasingly sophisticated virtual settings and sound design. Each reading is enhanced by conversation with the artists and a guest scholar for an hour-long live entertainment every Saturday night. Reaching an audience across the country and around the globe, the presentation of the forgotten one-act plays is an ideal way to pursue the theater's mission exploring America's diverse theatrical history. METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, in its 29th season, explores America’s diverse theatrical heritage through lost plays of the past and new plays of American historical and cultural moment. The theater received a 2011 OBIE Grant from The Village Voice for its ongoing productions that illuminate who we are by revealing where we have come from. Called ""invaluable"" by the Voice, Backstage and Talkin' Broadway, Metropolitan has earned further accolades from The New York Times and The New Yorker. Other awards include a Victorian Society of New York Outstanding Performing Arts Group, 3 Aggie Awards from Gay City News, 21 nominations for NYIT Awards (3 winners), and 6 AUDELCO Viv Award nominations. ARTISTS' RELIEF The Playhouse's virtual readings serve to help us compensate performing artists, so particularly hurt during this long ""pause."" Information about the theater's ARTISTS RELIEF FUND may be found at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/covidaid |
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