June 7, 2009
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Passing the Torch will be hosting a New Playwright’s Lab on Sunday nights at the Howland Cultural Center (477 Main St. Beacon NY, 12508) from 5:30 to 7:30pm. The first Lab will be presented July 12th 2009. We are looking forward to offering a venue and peer critique of new plays and plays in progress from all levels, all ages, all unique voices of Hudson Valley playwrights. To allow these works of arts to be polished, honed and perfected in a nurturing environment and free to the general public, (although donations are accepted) . We believe the Hudson Valley is a Treasure trove of talent: Writers, Actors, Directors and would love to perfect their craft or just keep their chops, close to home and spare the expense of NYC. Also, we encourage the general public to come and view the works to enjoy the creative process. As an added feature, and to attract actors, directors and lovers of Theater, we are offering the last ½ hour of the Lab to the reading of scenes, published works or monologues. Is there a play you would love to participate in but are the wrong type? Or a piece of theater or Literature that never gets produced but that you love to do? Come share it with us. Bring a small troupe even and a directed staged reading, perhaps to attract a prospective producer? Or maybe just to give an idea some legs. Since this is a new venture for us in this space, we are open to ideas and input. Come get involved in something new and exciting that could lead to the production of fine works of Theatric art. (Or just to get out of the house, meet some nice people, and have some fun!) |
Sidney Norinsky’s “Giordano Bruno” Debuts at ASK
A passionate new drama, “Giordano Bruno,” by Sidney Norinsky arrives onstage at ASK, the Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway Kingston, NY Friday and Saturday May 29 and 30, curtain at 8.
A recent upsurge of interest in Bruno was ignited by a new biography (recently reviewed in NY Times, Wall St. Journal, The Nation, and other major media) of the remarkable sixteenth century self-styled “natural philosopher,”
dramatist, poet, lover, memory wizard, playwright, astronomer, and early harbinger of scientific method well before the term “scientist” had ever been coined.
The play interweaves intimate scenes of Bruno’s personal life with highlights of his career as the celebrity European public intellectual of his century whose books, lectures, and pioneering conceptions of the universe some fifty years after Copernicus and thirty before Galileo made a palpable impact on the social and religious and political thought of his era.
The multi-media drama is the first play to graduate from the resident ASK Playwrights Lab, now in its fourth year, to public performance before audiences.
Directed by Michael Monasterial with a cast including Ron Morehead, Adele Calcavecchio, Mercedes Miranda, Patricia Martin, Amos Newcombe, and Bruce Pileggi, and others in a benefit performance for ASK.