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SUMMARY:On Her Shoulders
DESCRIPTION:On Her Shoulders in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company and the New School for Drama Presents...\nA reading of A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Susanna Centlivre\nDirected by: Rebecca Patterson\nEdited by: Tasha Gordon Solomon\n\nDecember 16th\, 2013\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm for a 6:45pm curtain; tickets are free to the public. The performance is at the New School's Wollman Hall\, Direct entrance is at 5th Floor of 65 West 11th St. (You can also access it from 66 West 12th St. just ask for Wollman Hall.)\n\nFree RSVP at OnHerShouldersReservations@gmail.com\n\nIn A Bold Stroke For A Wife\, Centlivre makes fun of all the stereotypes of her time\, fearlessly sending up the marriage mart\, fashion\, commerce\, academia and even religion. The play concerns Colonel Fainwell who wants to marry Anne Lovely\, but he must convince her four guardians that he will make an ideal husband. Unfortunately each guardian has a different concept of the ideal husband (based on his own self-estimation); so of course they can't possibly see eye to eye on a man for Anne. Fainwell takes the "bold stroke" of appearing in elaborate disguises in order to procure an official "permission slip" from each guardian and so achieve his quest. A Bold Stroke for a Wife was first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre\, on February 3. 1718\, where it ran six nights\, which was considered a substantial success. According to the Literary Encyclopedia\, Centlivre (c. 1667 - December 1\, 1723) was "the most successful female playwright of the 18th Century" and noted as the Second Woman of the English Stage\, after Aphra Behn.\n\nREBECCA PATTERSON (Director) NYC: As You Like It\, The Wonder\, Twelfth Night\, The Taming of the Shrew\, Edward II\, School For Scandal\, Much Ado About Nothing\, The Lucky Chance\, Antony & Cleopatra\, The Feign’d Courtesans\, The Duchess of Malfi\, The Rover\, Macbeth (The Queen’s Company) Wapato\, Greeks & Centaurs (Women’s Project)\, The Imaginary Invalid (Resonance Ensemble)\, The Gabriels (SPF) Regional: One Flea Spare\, Angels in America\, Vinegar Tom\, Too Tall Blondes in Love\, Marisol\, The Dance and The Railroad and The Lisbon Traviata. Rebecca is Artistic Director of The Queen’s Company\, known for its innovative productions of classical plays featuring all-female casts.\n\nTASHA GORDON SOLOMON's (Dramaturg) plays have been developed and produced at Ars Nova\, Dixon Place\, The Flea\, the Public Theater\, and the 52nd Street Project\, among others. She is a member of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group\, a recipient of the Dramatist Guild Fellowship\, and an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup. Directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theater\, the New York Fringe Festival\, The Brick\, Columbia University Graduate Playwriting Department and the Young Playwrights Festival at the O’Neill. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU\, where she was the recipient of a Goldberg Fellowship in Playwriting and a Tisch Fellowship.\n\nOn Her Shoulders was founded in 2012 to present staged readings of plays by women from across the spectrum of time and place\, with contemporary dramaturgs contextualizing--and in some cases adapting-- them for modern audiences. The program seeks to make it impossible to deny or ignore the great tradition and value of women's contribution to the theatrical canon. On Her Shoulders intends to motivate producers and directors to champion and produce these plays in New York and regionally\, and to incite audiences to demand to see them.\n\nVisit On Her Shoulders website at onhershoulders.weebly.com for information and photos on our past readings.\n\nThe Play in Context\, the dramaturgical and scholarly presentation component to the program\, is sponsored in part by the League of Professional Theatre Women\, a not-for-profit organization promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in theatre since 1982. www.theatrewomen.org
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LOCATION:65 West 11th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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