Ripe Time Presents Eight-Hour, Multi-Site Reading of Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, Today

Obie Award-winning company, Ripe Time, celebrates women writers and artists With CLARISSA DALLODAY, an event to complement Bloomsday.

CLARISSA DALLODAY- Saturday June 14, 12 noon till 8.30pm.

Itinerary:
12 noon - 3:45pm: Brooklyn Museum Lobby (200 Eastern Parkway)
3:45 - 4:00pm: Walk down Eastern Parkway to Grand Army Plaza.
4:00 - 6:00pm: Continue reading on the front steps of the Brooklyn Public Library.
6:00 - 6:30pm: Walk down Prospect Park West.
6:30 - 8:30pm: Reading to culminate in a private residence on Prospect Park West overlooking New York Harbor. (This portion of the event requires sponsoring a reader for a minimum of $100).

For more Information and details on how to sponsor the readers to benefit Ripe Time visit http://ripetime.org/clarissa-dalloday

Ripe Time, the Obie Award-winning, Brooklyn-based theater company led by Rachel Dickstein, will present CLARISSA DALLODAY, an eight-hour immersion into Virginia Woolf's masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway. Ripe Time has a particularly close relationship with the novel, having adapted it in their production Septimus and Clarissa, which premiered to acclaim in 2011. This time, they present the book in full,inviting audiences to travel through multiple Brooklyn locations-the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Public Library and a private residence on Prospect Park West-as they hear the work of one of the greatest modern literary minds. The event will conclude in Ripe Time's space at South Oxford Space in Fort Greene with, as befits the novel, a party. Readers will include Ellen McLaughlin, Kyra Hillelbaum and more TBA.

James Joyce's Ulysses chronicles a day in the life Leopold Bloom as he moves through the streets of Dublin on June 16. Similarly, Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, is also set on a single day in June and tracks its protagonist as she walks through a city, in this case, London. June 16 is commonly known as Bloomsday, a day in which people around the world commemorate the work of Joyce and relive the events in Ulysses through public performances and readings. There has not, however, been any concerted effort on a single day to read Mrs. Dalloway and commemorate Woolf's equally monumental literary achievement. As a company devoted to promoting the words of women writers on its stage, and one with a deep relationship to that text in particular, Ripe Time wants to change that with this inaugural benefit event CLARISSA DALLODAY.

About Ripe Time

The Obie award winning company, Ripe Time, founded in 2000, develops and presents ensemble-based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. The company creates dynamic visually rich theatre that offers potent allegories for our time, exploring such polarizing cultural forces as money, power, and ambition, and the impact they have on women's lives.

The company devises performances that pull from both dance and theater, developing work collaboratively with an ensemble of artists over extended development periods. The work ranges from company-created originals works to new adaptations of novels or stories and dynamic stagings of classic plays.

Since 2000, Ripe Time has created six large-scale ensemble works including the Obie Award winning The World is Round (2014) and the critically acclaimed and award nominated Septimus and Clarissa. Ripe Time has been presented at BAM, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, The JCC in Manhattan, 3LD Art & Technology Center, the Ohio Theatre, PS 122, the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center, and LaMaMa, ETC and been part of residencies at the Ko Festival, Voice and Vision, and Watermill.