The Strand Hosts Free Staged Reading of Barbara Bryan's Lightning Train 8/14
By: Gabrielle Sierra Aug. 02, 2010
With funding from the Station North Arts and Entertainment District Second Saturdays, the Strand Theater Company will produce Barbara Bryan's Lightning Train, a play about the American imagination and improvisation. In 1843, three African-American businessmen harnessed a confluence of new technologies - Pennsylvania's growing network of the earliest railroads, the spread of newspapers, and the invention of the telegraph and early photography. Working with railroad employees and abolitionists, they imagined how they might facilitate the more rapid transport of people fleeing slavery. And then, despite threats all around, they began moving people to freedom by train.
About the Playwright: Barbara Bryan is a Baltimore playwright whose work has been performed at theaters across the U.S. Her plays have been finalists for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, PlayLabs and the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. She received Playwright Grants from Baltimore City Arts and Maryland State Arts Council and participated in the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. She has developed plays in Paul Berman's Theater Workshop in Baltimore and is a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C.The 50-seat Strand Theater is located at 1823 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. EVENT LOCATION: The Strand Theater1823 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201TICKETS: FREECONTACT: The Strand Theater
Artistic Director, Jayme Kilburn
443-874-4917
info@strandtheatercompany.org
www.strandtheatercompany.org
Held 8/14 at 8pm
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