Entertainment
Play with Your Food, Now at Night
Monday, November 05, 2007
Play with Your Food goes primetime in December.
One of the hottest tickets in Westport, the "Play with Your Food" series -- already sold-out for its lunchtime performances -- presents Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" December 6th at the Westport Woman's Club, 44 Imperial Avenue.
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be catered by Acqua Ristorante beginning at 6:30 PM. The reading follows from 7:30 – 8:30 PM.
Truman Capote is well-known for writing poignant fiction and short stories, like Breakfast at Tiffany's. His autobiographical short story A Christmas Memory recalls Capote as an orphaned youth in the rural South during the 1930's. Living with a slightly dotty but loving "cousin" when he was ten, Capote relates their Christmas time rituals with loving and nostalgic strokes. A television version of A Christmas Memory, starring Geraldine Page, won an Emmy Award when it aired in 1966.
A stellar cast will effectively bring the characters to life in this stage adaptation by Russell Vandenbroucke. Directed by Mark Graham of Trumbull, the ensemble includes Mark Basile of Weston, Katie Sparer of Stratford, Betty Jinnette of Norwalk, Ken Parker of Fairfield and Kristin Graham of Trumbull. The troupe is reprising its performance together, after appearing in a sold-out Greenwich Play With Your Food last December.
Now entering its sixth season in Westport, lunchtime Play With Your Food combines gourmet food with one-act plays written by both emerging and award-winning playwrights and read by professional actors. The weekday program runs from 12 noon to 1:30 pm. A brief discussion with the actors and directors follows the readings. Play With Your Food runs from January through April in Westport, Fairfield and Greenwich.
Tickets for A Christmas Memory are $43, or $38 for subscribers of the lunch series. Tickets for all Play With Your Food programs are available at 203-259-1036 or online at www.playwithyourfood.org.
One of the hottest tickets in Westport, the "Play with Your Food" series -- already sold-out for its lunchtime performances -- presents Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" December 6th at the Westport Woman's Club, 44 Imperial Avenue.
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be catered by Acqua Ristorante beginning at 6:30 PM. The reading follows from 7:30 – 8:30 PM.
Truman Capote is well-known for writing poignant fiction and short stories, like Breakfast at Tiffany's. His autobiographical short story A Christmas Memory recalls Capote as an orphaned youth in the rural South during the 1930's. Living with a slightly dotty but loving "cousin" when he was ten, Capote relates their Christmas time rituals with loving and nostalgic strokes. A television version of A Christmas Memory, starring Geraldine Page, won an Emmy Award when it aired in 1966.
A stellar cast will effectively bring the characters to life in this stage adaptation by Russell Vandenbroucke. Directed by Mark Graham of Trumbull, the ensemble includes Mark Basile of Weston, Katie Sparer of Stratford, Betty Jinnette of Norwalk, Ken Parker of Fairfield and Kristin Graham of Trumbull. The troupe is reprising its performance together, after appearing in a sold-out Greenwich Play With Your Food last December.
Now entering its sixth season in Westport, lunchtime Play With Your Food combines gourmet food with one-act plays written by both emerging and award-winning playwrights and read by professional actors. The weekday program runs from 12 noon to 1:30 pm. A brief discussion with the actors and directors follows the readings. Play With Your Food runs from January through April in Westport, Fairfield and Greenwich.
Tickets for A Christmas Memory are $43, or $38 for subscribers of the lunch series. Tickets for all Play With Your Food programs are available at 203-259-1036 or online at www.playwithyourfood.org.
