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| 3/20/21: WINTER'S NIGHT on the Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:30 am EDT 03/16/21 | |
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| Seldom performed one -act WINTER'S NIGHT by Neith Boyce The visionary author's best known work March 20, 2021, at 8 pm EST Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents a new free "screened" reading, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: WINTER'S NIGHT, Neith Boyce. 3/20/2021 at 8:00 pm (Eastern) through 3/24/2021 at 10:00 pm (Eastern) Running Time: 1 hour Free of charge Available at: www.MetropolitanPlayhouse.org/watchwintersnight The video will be available through Wednesday, 3/24/21 on the Playhouse webpage, the Metropolitan Playhouse YouTube channel, and the Metropolitan Playhouse Facebook page. On a remote farm, following the death of her husband, Rachel Westcott envisions a new life, no longer confined by expectation and responsibility. Her devoted brother-in-law Jacob sees an opportunity as well, but their contrasting visions of the future tragically collide. Discussion including audience participation follows the reading. Directed by RACHAEL LANGTON, the cast features ERINN HOLMES, JAMMIE PATTON, and ERIC EMIL OLESON. Graphics by KATIE McGEORGE. 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 (1916). Photo: Erinn Holmes and Eric Oleson UPCOMING Metropolitan presents readings every Saturday at 8 pm, Eastern Time, and varied programing every other Wednesday evening as part of The Wednesday Alternative March 17, 2021 ZERO-RAMA: BACK TO ZERO Vocal impressario Zero Boy offers his particular brand of social commentary and flights of fancy March 27, 2021 HE SAID AND SHE SAID by Alice Gerstenberg 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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| Link | http://www.MetropolitanPlayhouse.org/watchwintersnight |
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