To Family & Friends,
Just in case you have not heard, please accept this invitation to attend my current production at Long Wharf Theatre (LWT). They are celebrating their 50th Anniversary Season with the Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein says, “Our Town is one of the greatest plays written by an American in the 20th century. It is a profound meditation on life and death. The world of Our Town has changed since Wilder first wrote the play.
Our production will endeavor to capture what our town is today, reflecting our city, our country, and our lives.” An unquestioned classic of the American theatre told with sly humor and profound meaning, we are transported to Grover’s Corners, a place of secret wishes and disappointments, loves and losses, where the people we meet are shockingly like the ones in our own lives. Meet Emily and George. They’ve grown up together in their small New England town, falling in love in a surprisingly complicated way. Their growing up, their living, and their dying provide the lens through which the story is told, a story that focuses on a village but encompasses the eternal, finding the world in a grain of sand.
“Indeed the play’s success across cultural borders around the world attests to its being something much greater than an American play: it is a play that captures the universal experience of being alive.” -Donald Margulies
EMILY: Do human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
STAGE MANAGER: No. The saints and poets maybe. They do some.
CAST:
Myra Lucretia Taylor (The Stage Manager), Linda Powell (Mrs. Gibbs), Don Sparks (Dr. Gibbs), Rey Lucas (George Gibbs), Remsen Welsh (Rebecca Gibbs), Christina Rouner (Mrs. Webb), Leon Addison Brown (Editor Webb), Jenny Leona (Emily Webb), Namumba Santos (Wally Webb), Steve Routman (Professor Willard), Ann McDonaugh (Mrs. Soames), Grègoire Mouning (Constable Warren), Robert Dorfman (Simon Stimson), JoJo Gonzalez (Howie Newsome), Aidan McMillan (Joe Crowell), Dermot McMillan (Si Crowell), Mateo Gomez (Sam Craig), James Andreassi (Joe Stoddard), Tasia A. Jones (Woman in the Balcony), Dominique Brillon (Belligerent Woman), Malcolm Cameron(Man in Graveyard)
TOWNSPEOPLE:
Ray Baldelli, Emily Breeze, Constantino Fernandez, Mel Eichler, Don Leona, George Robert McTyre, Casey Miko, Joyce Patton, Pranav Phull, Jaqulen Ray, L'aura Vakar, Lisa W. Yarbor, Caitlin Zoz and many others!
More information about our production available from the following weblinks:
Tuesday, October 14, 21 and 28, 2014 @7:00pm
Wednesday, October 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2014 @7:00pm
Thursday, October 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2014 @8:00pm
Friday, October 10, 17, 24 and 31 2014 @8:00pm
Saturday, October 11, 18 and 25, 2014 @8:00pm
Sunday, October 12, 19 & 26, 2014 @7:00pm
Please note the following performance times:
Wednesday, October 15 Opening night @7:30pm
Wednesday, October 22 and 29 Matinee @3:00pm
Thursday, October 23 and 30 Student Matinee @11:00am
Saturday, October 18 and 25 Matinee @3:00pm
Sunday, October 12, 19 and 26 Matinee @2:00pm
Be sure to catch a special guest appearance by Tappan Wilder on October 16 following the 8pm performance. He is nephew and the family’s literary executor who will speak about the play and Thornton’s legacy.
222 Sargent Drive
New Haven, CT 06511
Long Wharf Theatre is located directly off Exit 46 of I-95, near the junction of I-95, I-91 and Route 34. Parking is free in a lighted, secure lot.
From NYC (via I-95): Take I-95 North to Exit 46. Go left at traffic light at end of ramp, left at next light, (takes you under I-95), left at next light (takes you onto Sargent Drive), then right at next light between the Mobil gas station and the Bank of America. LWT is on your left, halfway back in the Food Terminal lot.
From NYC (via Rte-15: Take Merritt Parkway North (Rt. 15) and take the Milford Connector to I-95 North. Follow (via I-95) directions above.
From Boston: Take I-90 West to I-84 West and continue to the Hartford area. Take Exit 57 to I-91 South, Continue on I-91 to New Haven, then get on I-95 South. Take Exit 46 off I-95. Go right at end of ramp and continue on Sargent Drive. Turn left between the Mobil gas station and the Bank of America. LWT is on your left, halfway back in the Food Terminal lot.
From Waterbury: Take Route 8 South to Route 63, which becomes Whalley Avenue in New Haven. Continue on Whalley to Broadway and then Elm Street, along the Yale University campus. Turn right on State Street (Route 5), and go about 1/2 mile. Turn left on Water Street and go about 3/10 mile. Turn right on Brewery Street. Follow Brewery Street past the Ikea store and continue on Sargent Drive. Turn right between the Mobil gas station and the Bank of America. LWT is on your left, halfway back in the Food Terminal lot.
From Danbury: Take I-84 East to Route 34 and continue to New Haven. Turn right onto Ella Grasso Blvd. (Route 10), then left at the second light onto Legion Avenue. Continue onto Route 34 East, then bear right onto the ramp for I-95 South (towards New York City). Take I-95 South to Exit 46. Go right at end of ramp and continue on Sargent Drive. Turn left between the Mobil gas station and the Bank of America. LWT is on your left, halfway back in the Food Terminal lot.
Looking forward to seeing you after the show!
-Grégoire
gamouning@gmail.com
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