| 2/13/21: THE OUTSIDE on Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse | |
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| Valentine's Day Homage to "Free" Love ENEMIES by Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood A comedy of love and marriage among the Bohemians February 13, 2021 at 8 pm Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free "screened" readings, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: ENEMIES, Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood. 2/13/2021 at 8:00 pm through 2/17/2021 at 10:00 pm Running Time: 60 minutes Free of charge Available at: www.metropolitanplayhouse.org The video will be available through Wednesday, 2/17/21 on the Playhouse webpage, the Metropolitan Playhouse YouTube channel, and the Metropolitan Playhouse Facebook page. Free-living Bohemians, dedicated to a relationship as open as their minds, He and She have had an enduring marriage, energetic children, and more than enough of one another. Tonight, the gloves come off, the souls are laid bare, and the state of this union lies in the balance. A night like any other in Greenwich Village. Written by real life spouses Boyce and Hapgood--they wrote the lines of their respective alter-egos--the short play is as filled with self-mockery as it is with pretense. ENEMIES is the epitome of the satire that distinguished the salons, the ateliers, and the theater of early 20th century village. Discussion including audience participation follow the readings, with special guest Carol deBoer-Langworthy, Senior Lecturer at Brown University. Directed by Laura Livingston, the cast features Kersti Bryan and Nate Washburn. Settings by Medusa Studio. NEITH BOYCE (1872-1951) was a novelist and journalist, as well as a playwright, and she was among the founding members of the Provincetown Players. Though she was born in Indiana, her father moved the family to Los Angeles, where he co-founded the Los Angeles Times, and she began works as a journalist in her teens. After the family moved to New York, she wrote for Vogue and The Commercial Advertiser, and it was there she met her future husband, novelist and journalist Hutchins Hapgood. By the 1890's, she was a part of a Greenwich Village literary and cultural scene, and with Hapgood supported the work of Mabel Dodge, Djuna Barnes, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O™Keeffe, and Gertrude Stein. Her own writing included seven novels, as well as four plays, all of which received first productions at Provincetown: Constancy (19114), Enemies (written with Hapgood, 1916), Two Sons (1916), and Winter's Night (1928). HUTCHINS HAPGOOD (1836–1917), following a brief stint as instructor in English composition at Harvard and then the University of Chicago, turned to journalism, writing for the New York Commercial Advertiser (later known as the New York Globe) from 1899 to 1904, and then in Chicago, where he was drama critic for the Chicago Evening Post. Returning to N?w York, he spent much of his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, the Press, and the Globe. UPCOMING Metropolitan presents readings every Saturday at 8 pm, Eastern Time February 20, 2021 The Deceivers, by William C. DeMille A second floor man helps a bickering couple find their love, even as he takes their fortune. 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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