Aurora Theatre Company Script Club Presents Summer and Smoke 4/25

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the third Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. Written in 1947, Summer and Smoke tells the story of two souls that enter into the brutal and gentle arena of embodied relationship, not unlike the characters in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Williams 1964 rewrite of the same play. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield hosts this moderated discussion series. The Aurora Script Club was conceived and developed by Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross. In honor of Tennessee Williams' 100th birthday, all of the Script Club selections for the season will be plays by Williams.

Aurora Theatre Company continues its 19th season with The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Set shortly before World War I in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale is a story of irrepressible longing and rebellion. Known as "the nightingale of the Delta," Alma Winemiller is a lonely, unconventional woman hemmed in by her stern, puritanical father and her unstable mother. Heading towards spinsterhood, with an artistic temperament that her father tries to suppress, Alma finds consolation in her music and in the secret lifelong love she has for the boy-next-door. But it turns out that neither time nor circumstance will allow the two to be together. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale plays April 1 through May 8 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.

DATE: Monday, April 25, 2011, 7:30pm

WHERE: Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

TICKETS: Aurora Script Club is free and open to the public; for more information about Script Club or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org.

 

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