Westport Country Playhouse: Sunday Symposium October 4, 2009 - 3p.m.

Westport Country Playhouse: Sunday Symposium
October 4, 2009 - 3p.m.

Posted by Len Bourret, for www.BroadwayWorld.com (Copyright 2009)

Photo: Susan Balée

The Playhouse Sunday Symposium program, free
and open to the public, provides the audience with
guest speakers' in-depth insights and observations
about the production, followed by an interactive
dialogue.

David Kennedy, Westport Country Playhouse associate artistic director, will moderate
the Sunday Symposium. It is open to all, including those who attend a performance
of "The Breath of Life" at another time. The Sunday Symposium is supported, in part,
by the White Barn Program of the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
 
"I'm quite excited for Susan to share her insights with us," said Kennedy. "She has the discerning eye of a scholar, the passion of a fan and the ardor of someone who cares deeply about the theatre, and particularly about the plays of David Hare. It will be a
great conversation."

Susan Balée teaches in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple University and also
writes fiction, memoir and essays about literature. She regularly reviews books for The
Hudson Review and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has published essays in the Times
(London) Literary Supplement, The Weekly Standard, The Women's Review of Books
and many other publications. Her essay on playwrights David Hare and Tom Stoppard
appeared last year in The Michigan Quarterly Review, and she is also featured (with
Annette Bening, Robert Redford, Alfred Molina, Pico Iyer, Aimee Mann and several
others) on recent National Endowment of the Arts audio programs about writers Jack
London, Leo Tolstoy and Marilynne Robinson.

For more information or ticket purchases, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or
toll-free at 1-888-927-7529, or visit 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Tickets
for "The Breath of Life" may be purchased online at www.westportplayhouse.org.
But, hurry, tickets are selling fast!

Susan Balée...
www.writers.net/writers/32514