Clothing Boutique To Host Play Reading, Sept. 21

Clothing store montmartre and the Relentless Theatre Company will present an in-store reading of playwright Malachy Walsh's Dressing the Girl, an original work inspired by the playwright's repeated visits to the Manhattan boutique.

montmartre and Relentless hope their teaming will offer, "A new way of exploring the arts, highlighting the integral role art plays in every part of our daily lives, as well as generating innovative spaces for performance and exhibition."

From Walsh: "What kind of man looks for answers in a dress shop?  It turns out I am.  Four years ago, while passing the windows of montmartre, I saw a dress that I thought the woman I was dating should wear. Six months later I discovered that shopping for dresses is not only seductive, but dangerous. It's only fitting that this play, Dressing the Girl, should be read in a store that inspired it."

Malachy Walsh is an award-winning writer whose advertising work was recently featured on NBC's The Today Show. Walsh's play The Chair was produced by the Relentless Theatre Company for the New York International Fringe Festival in 1994 and received the festival's Excellence in Playwriting Award.

Dressing the Girl has been work shopped and developed at The Public Theater, the Soho Think Tank, 78th Street Theatre Lab, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

The reading will be directed by Charles Maryan. The cast features Sarah Elliott, Laura Marks and Kevin Stapleton.

The reading will take place Thursday, September 21st at 6:30 PM. montmartre is located on the 3rd floor of the Time Warner Building at Columbus Circle. Admission is free.