East Lynne Theater Co. Announces Benefit Performance
ZELDA & SCOTT: A Life Affair is a new play by Mark Edward Lang, based on over twenty years of letters between Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Their rich, poignant, playful, thoughtful and varied correspondence- from passionate love letters to heated jealous screeds- comes to life in this staged-reading performance starring real-life married couple Alison J. Murphy and actor-playwright Mark Edward Lang. The duo previously played in their two-hander LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials of Broadway at FringeNYC in 2016, also written by Lang.
About Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Married for twenty years, they were one of the most provocative- and talented- literary couples of the Twentieth Century. Scott wrote 5 novels (notably The Great Gatsby), 1 stage play (The Vegetable, a political comedy, which flopped), multiple screenplays (1 was produced: Three Comrades) and 170 short stories (many for the Saturday Evening Post). Zelda's artistic endeavors include a semi-autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz, a play entitled Scandalabra, as well as numerous magazine articles, short stories and paintings. She was also a trained ballet dancer. At the time of Scott's death of a heart attack in 1940, he was penniless and out of favor with the reading public. But Zelda wrote to their daughter in 1944 that "Daddy was the key-note and prophet of his generation, and deserves remembrance as such..." And time has proven that she was right. Zelda died in a tragic hospital fire in 1948.
TICKETS: SUGGESTED MINIMUM DONATION: $10 per person at the door; receipts will be available. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL BENEFIT THE NONPROFIT EAST LYNNE THEATER COMPANY IN THE WAKE OF THEIR RECENT FIRE.
More info and RSVP at: www.eltc-benefit-nyc.eventbrite.comFacebook Event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/756370964695124/
Running time: 80 minutes. There will be a brief Q&A with the cast and refreshments afterward.
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