Upcoming Readings, Productions and workshops
Rosary's Winter Schedule
What: A staged reading of Plane Love Erotic Letters
When: Monday, February 27 at 7:00 PM
Where: The Sculpture Court, The National Arts Club Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. For more information call 212-475-3424.
About: Inspired by the love story of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Plane Love is a contemporary fictional play about two love struck icons engaged in a spiraling series of emails which become increasingly more personal and sensual. We are offered a revealing glimpse into the lives of two stars and the jeopardy caused by their deadly attraction to each other. Directed by Tavia Trepte
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What: Third section - staged reading of The Awakening of Kate Chopin
When: TBA in February (by invitation only)
Where: The Actors Studio, 432 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036.
About: Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening, must pick between her dying husband and her lover, the wealthy planter next door. She picks her lover, and he leaves her. In agony she goes forth to become the great writer she was meant to be. A tour de force play of obsession rooted in the real life of the famous first great American novelist and based on detailed, shocking facts from her life. She wants to hold on to her marriage and her six small children and launch herself as a novelist in 1884. Frustrating her attempts are her wealthy next door neighbor, wanting to prove his masculinity, her jealous husband, stricken with malaria, the little sex-pot seamstress next door, the town gossip, and the bankrupt cotton business, which consumes her time. All this results in an epic post Civil War story of the first great American woman novelist.
Rosary's Spring Schedule
What: A staged reading of John Singer Sargent and Madame X
When: Monday, April 30 at time TBA.
Where: The Sculpture Court, The National Arts Club Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. For more information call 212-475-3424.
About: When brash, darkly handsome 27-year-old American genius John Singer Sargent accepts the challenge of painting the most beautiful woman in Paris- on his own terms- his uncompromising vision threatens to bring ruin to them both. Together they achieve immortality as the creator & subject of the unforgetable painting we now know as The Portrait of Madame X.- the icon of Belle Epoque Paris and decadent symbol of cafe society, preserved for all time by Sargent's dangerous flirtation with overwhelming beauty. This novel is peopled with celebrities of the period: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt and Claude Monet, among many. Shrewd and sparkling dialogue among these people enables Rosary to deconstruct the creation of one of the most haunting masterworks of western art. This all takes place in Belle Époque Paris & London, 1882. Starring JoAnne Bonn.
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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
Kate Chopin
The painting that made John Singer
Sargent famous
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