Diane Edgecomb's 'A THOUSAND DOORWAYS' Headed to Pontine

Pontine Theatre presents Boston-based guest artist, Diane Edgecomb, in her original solo production, A Thousand Doorways: Journey Among the Kurds of Turkey. Performances are Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 2pm, March 3-5, 2017.

A Thousand Doorways is the true account of Diane's decade long quest to document the vanishing folkloric tales of the Kurds of Turkey. The performance takes audiences on an exotic journey from Diane's first humorous meetings with carpet dealers and chain-smoking octogenarians to her travels up sheer mountain passes to the remote Kurdish villages usually forbidden to outsiders.

Tickets are $24 and may be purchased in advance online at www.pontine.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the door a half-hour prior to each show, based on availability. This production is underwritten by the Newington Historic District Commission. Performances take place at the Newington Old Town Hall located at 336 Nimble Hill in Newington NH. For information contact Pontine: info@pontine.org / 603-436-6660.

Diane Edgecomb's dynamic style of storytelling, in which she fully embodies the characters and scenes, bringing each moment alive, won her the first national Oracle Award for Storytelling Excellence in the Northeast. Publisher's Weekly called Diane, "a virtuoso of the spoken word...an entire cast rolled into one!" Diane's beautifully articulated pieces and 'embodied telling' transports the listener into the heart of the story. A featured teller on National Public Radio and winner of a Year's Best Performance award for her theater work in Boston, Diane's storytelling has been featured at venues throughout the country for over twenty-five years. She has been an invited teller to the National Storytelling Festival and the International Storytelling Center and is the author of A Fire in My Heart, the first book of Kurdish folktales published in English.