The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute (115 East 15th Street) presentsSnow White & The Beast, a new play by Mathilde Dehaye playing in the Lee Strasberg Theatre July 23rd thru 25th. Renoly Santiago directs.
Lili, a privileged but tormented young painter from the Upper East Side meets Vincent, a volatile poet from London's East End in a bar one night and almost instantly they form a powerful bond. The play explores the challenges their need for each other provokes concerning love, drugs, pregnancy and the demons they struggle with in a quest for the meaning and value of their lives. These two lovers whose passion for each other makes them feel so alive in the best moments of their relationship, grow ever more lost as they confront the judgements and intolerance from the different worlds they inhabit and finally the need to escape takes precedence over the need to create. Mathilde Dehaye grew up in Belgium in the town of Liège where she studied improvisation and performed in many plays. She came to New York several years ago to pursue an acting career and studied with James Price at the Acting Studio before entering the two year Acting Conservatory at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She wrote Snow White & The Beast, winner of the annual "Strasberg Works" writing contest, which was tapped for production.Videos