Category: Past Events

Nora’s Playhouse presents a stage reading of…

WASH, DRY, FOLD
By Nedra Pezold Roberts
Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson

Friday, May 8, 2015

7:00PM

Sisters Trudy and Enola have been bickering all their adult lives over differences in religion, lifestyle, and childhood resentments. Now they’re stuck with each other running Grace’s Place, the run-down New Orleans laundromat they inherited from their mother. Uncle Slackjaw, a Vietnam P.O.W., slips in and out of reality as often as he wanders in and out of the laundromat. The bank has turned them down for a loan; the cops are after Uncle Slack. The arrival in town of Arlene, a 28 year-old, over-qualified tattoo artist, brings the possibility of change. Might she be the catalyst for resolution, reconciliation, or even redemption?

Featuring:
Angela Dickson as Trudy
Sarah Spratling as Enola
Carl Palmer as Uncle Slack
Rebecca Lovett as Arlene
Scott Page as Mick Mahoney

Amy S. Green reading Stage Directions

Hosted by:
Huntingdon College
Leo J. Drum Theatre
1125 East Fairview Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36106

Admission is FREE, but seating is limited. Please RSVP: reservations@norasplayhouse.org

(Suggested donation of $10 to go towards further Nora’s Playhouse programming.)

Thank you for everyone who made it to the reading on February 27, 2015 – it was a great event!

Check out our photos on Facebook: http://ow.ly/L9kyr 

And courtesy of TENRAI FRED FORSYTHE:  http://tenrai-f.tumblr.com/post/113276566939/francoise-by-suzanne-trauth-directed-by

Stay tuned for more staff announcements and a save the date for our upcoming reading in May!

Nora’s Playhouse presents a stage reading of…

FRANÇOISE

By Suzanne Trauth

Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson

Françoise Bollinger is eighty and ill. Confronted with her mortality, she is frightened to die with a terrible sin on her conscience. While grappling with her past to find forgiveness for her actions, she relives the summer of 1944 in Nice, France. Françoise remembers studying dance with one of Isadora Duncan’s protégées; falling in love with Christian, a young German soldier, sharing his passion for the poetry of Rilke and sharing her passion for dance. Now sixty years later, as she faces the end of her life, Françoise conjures up Christian, Isadora Duncan, and a younger version of herself, struggling to navigate between the two worlds of past and present. A compassionate doctor and troubled granddaughter are her only companions as she searches for the redemption she needs before dying.

Starring:
Kathleen Chalfant* as Françoise Bollinger
Hillary Spector as Isadora Duncan
Stephen Bienskie as Dr. John Marbury
Christina Toth as Young Françoise Bollinger
Timothy Sekk as Christian Paul
Lizzie Fox as Joanna Bollinger
Christopher Domig* as Pierre Lanier

Friday February 27, 2015
7:00pm
Hosted by
A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street
#228
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Admission is FREE, but seating is limited. Please RSVP: reservations@norasplayhouse.org
Suggested donation of $10 to go towards further Nora’s Playhouse programming.

A.I.R. Gallery has been advocating for women in the visual arts since 1972. While at the gallery we hope you will enjoy the 2015 A.I.R. National Artists Exhibition, Transformed Viewpoints, an energetic reflection of the face of today’s feminism across the U.S.

*Appears curtesy of Actor’s Equity Association