Reader's Theater
Event description
3rd Saturdays in the Gallery
1 - 4 PM
FREE* (registration required)
Open to all ages
* This event is free, but your donation to the Orange County Arts Alliance, the nonprofit partner of the Orange County Arts Commission, is appreciated!
About the May Event:
Join us in the gallery and experience the delight of reading plays aloud together—with no audience except other readers. At this informal gathering, parts will be assigned without the concern for "type." Readings may include works by William Shakespeare, Dion Boucicault; George Bernard Shaw, and more.
May reading will be from :
Hotel Cassiopeia, Charles Mee's fantasy inspired by the life and work of the master of assemblage art, Joseph Cornell, is itself an assemblage. Its characters include famous people in Cornell’s life (Lauren Bacall and Hedy Lamarr; artists Arshile Gorky, Marcel Duchamp, Roberto Matta; poet Marianne Moore) as well as a ballerina, an overbearing mother, a brother with cerebral palsy, and the people inhabiting Cornell’s mind: a pharmacist, an astronomer, a birdwatcher, and a corkmaker. This collage of ideas and people explores, in the words of Charles Mee, what we'd hear if Joseph Cornell’s boxes could speak “about art, about America, about compassion and longing and loneliness and heartbreak.”
- Prerequisites: high school-level reading (no acting experience needed)
- Fee: Suggested donation to the Orange County Arts Commission
- Class size: Maximum 20 readers per session
- Schedule: 1-4 pm, third Saturdays (March16, April 20, and May 18 to start). Come to one session, two, or all three!
- If possible, bring a computer or tablet to sessions to receive and read script PDFs.
- To register: Sign up online to ensure a space; onsite registration if space allows.
About the Facilitator: Marc S. Miller
Marc has directed, acted, stage managed, and swept the floors for theaters in North Carolina and Boston for over five decades. Among his favorite directing gigs are We Can’t Pay, We Won’t Pay at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro with the Actors Co-op of North Carolina and The Time of Your Life, Carny Knowledge, and Waiting for Gilgamesh: Scenes from Iraq with Fort Point Theatre Channel, an arts collective he cofounded in Boston.