OCPA Presents TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY In Santa Ana

Some Presidents are reviled, some are hailed, and some are reevaluated with time. Ulysses S. Grant, long considered a dismal commander-in-chief, is now being reconsidered by historians and biographers. (There's even a Steven Spielberg-directed biopic about him in the works.) Was Grant a binge-drinking pushover, ill-suited for the highest office in the land? Or did he possess unusual foresight for his time? Arthur Kraft's Triumph and Tragedy, directed by Philip Brickey and featuring Mark Coyan, presents President Grant telling his story to you. This staged reading marks the Orange County Playwrights Alliance's first event at the Grand Central Art Center, home to the The Wayward Artist.

For over 20 years, the Orange County Playwrights Alliance (OCPA) has provided writers the opportunity to explore their creativity in an intellectually safe environment by providing table readings and public presentations of members' work. OCPA additionally interacts with the theatre community to provide actors, directors, and audiences with entertaining and thought-provoking theatrical work. Member playwrights have gone on to have their work nationally produced and published. Many works have been used as social tools to educate or enlighten the surrounding community.

The Wayward Artist is a nonprofit theatre company located in Santa Ana that tells stories using theatre, dance, music and the visual arts. It seeks to provide a home for the wayward artist--the lost, the naked, the vulnerable; to produce wayward work of the highest quality--works forgotten, works reinvented, works unknown; and, to transform a wayward community--its arrogance, its ignorance, its complacency.

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