|
|
Program Overview
"Master Harold"...
And The Boys
A personal account of a young man's coming of age in the turbulent South Africa of the 1950's. The play is set on a wet and windy Port Elizabeth afternoon, first produced in 1982 it was rated in the top 50 on the Royal National Theatre's most significant plays of the twentieth century. The tale of humanity and political passion focussing on two black workers Sam and Willy who share their daydreams about better times while Hal does his homework, led to Fugard being acclaimed throughout the world yet reviled by the apartheid regime at home.
The Education
of Ezra Pound
American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was instrumental in creating the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry and literature, heavily influencing T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and eventually even his own mentor, W.B Yeats, among many others. He was also a pro-fascist anti-Semite, evangelical in his demand for perfection from artists and politicians, who broadcast pro-Axis radio speeches from Rome during World War II. His sanity remains in dispute, as does his own poetic talent. But throughout his life, two women remained loyal to Pound, his wife, Dorothy, and his longtime mistress, Olga Rudge. Pound fathered a child with each woman although neither heir knew of the other’s existence—or of the other woman in their father’s life-- until Pound was arrested on a U.S. treason charge in 1945. The events of this play take place during the five months Pound was incarcerated in an American military prison near Pisa, Italy. Despite his personal agony, or perhaps because of it, while in prison, Pound wrote the best poetry of his life, the Pisan Cantos, for which he was awarded the first Bollingen Poetry Award in 1949 from the Library of Congress.
Direct From Death Row,
The Scottsboro Boys
This powerful piece unveils the true story of racial injustice told through the satirical lens of a Vaudeville performance. The story reenacts the trial and conviction of the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers who were wrongfully accused of raping two white prostitutes in Alabama in 1931. This historical event infuriated the nation, and its aftermath ended up being one of impetuses that eventually led to the Civil Rights movement.
|
|
 |
|
Program Date & Time
There will be a 'talk back' session after each presentation.
"Master Harold"...
And The Boys
A play by Athol Fugard
03/24/06 - 7:00 pm
03/26/06 - 2:00 & 6:30 pm
04/01/06 - 2:00 & 6:30 pm
04/02/06 - 2:00 pm and an evening show TBA
A staged reading of
The Education
of Ezra Pound
By Rhonda Sonnenberg
03/25/06 - 7:00 pm
A staged reading of
Direct From Death Row,
The Scottsboro Boys
A Play of Vaudeville and Sorrow
By Mark Stein
03/31/06 - 7:00 pm
Admission
"Master Harold"...
And The Boys
$10 General Admission
$5 Students & Seniors
Staged Readings
$5 General Admission (per reading)
Sponsor
Al May
|
|
