Pascal Productions Presents MODOTTI At The Acorn Theatre, Ends Run 7/3

PASCAL PRODUCTIONS is pleased to present the world premiere production of MODOTTI, written and directed by Wendy Beckett (Off-Broadway?s Anais Nin: One of Her Lives). MODOTTI will play a four-week limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). Performances began Wednesday, June 9 at 8 p.m. and continue through Saturday, July 3 at 8 p.m. Opening Night is Friday, June 11 (8 p.m.).

MODOTTI is the story of photographer, silent film actress and ultimately activist and communist subversive, Tina Modotti. Sleek and sensuous, yet as dangerous as a tiger, she tore through the male dominated political forums almost as fast as she tore through her lovers.

Modotti fled to Mexico lured by the revolution and artistic excitement. Accompanied by her lover, American photographer, Edward Weston, she took on the challenge of a culture undergoing rapid change. Relishing in her new found freedom, her contemporaries were muralist, Diego Rivera, and Cuban revolutionary, Julio Mella.

Taking on controversial issues is a young person's adventure, one that is bound to have dire consequences.

MODOTTI plays the following regular schedule through Saturday, July 3:

Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Fridays at 8 p.m.
Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sundays at 3 p.m.

Wendy Beckett (Playwright/Director) is the former mentee of English author Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet, a friend of Henry Miller?s and Anais Nin and his brother was zoologist Gerald Durrell author of My family and Other Animals) with whom she lived and studied in France. As a former radio/print journalist Becket interviewed the likes of Gore Vidal, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Walter Trampler and John Cage. Beckett published her first story in Readers Digest at age 16 and had 7 radio plays aired on ABC Radio, before she turned 19.

Beckett has written over 25 plays and directed more than 40. Over the past ten years she has often directed her own plays. Her productions have been staged at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. It was here her biographical play about musician Alma Mahler & her composer husband Gustav Mahler was backed by musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Beckett has degrees in Arts, Psychology, Education, and Literature.

Tickets are $25-50 and are now available online at www.TicketCentral.com or by calling 212-279-4200. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Theatre Row Box Office, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Running Time: 2 hours with intermission

Website: http://pascalproductions.net/modotti.html