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April Play: The Verge
ETC Discovers: The Verge
Each month, we’ll highlight a play & writer from our last list –– and we’re delighted to bring you…
The Verge
by Susan Glaspell
If you’re looking for a tragi-comedy where the lyric insight of Virginia Woolf meets the electric cruelty of Hedda Gabler…
A garden, an eclipse, a Tony-winner & 2 partners!
Want to hear the play? Join us at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a site-specific reading of a play that takes place in a greenhouse. Tony-winner Miriam Silverman joins the Fiasco company, in partnership with Classic Stage Company, to bring this text to life!
Susan Glaspell
(1876-1947) got a degree in philosophy, then began her career as a reporter and columnist. She joined a radical social group, The Monists, and met her future husband, George Cram Cook, while protesting a book banning with them. They became prominent artists in Greenwich Village, and started The Provincetown Players. The company featured the talents of Edna St. Vincent Milay, Louisa Bryant, and Sinclair Lewis, and launched the career of Eugene O’Neill. Glaspell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Alison’s House, and briefly directed the midwest bureau for the Federal Theatre Project.
A famous show image from the Provincetown Players: All God's Chillun Got Wings with Paul Robeson & Mary Blair
Listen to the podcast for more info!
Classics while you commute!
Hear more about the play, the writer, and why we love it on this month’s episode of This Is A Classic! Featuring a monologue by Hedgepig co-founder, Gwen Kelso, and hosted by curators Emily Lyon and Kalina Ko.
This Month’s Partner Reading:
April 8 - The Verge with Fiasco & Classic Stage
Join us at Brooklyn Botanic Garden on April 8th with two fabulous partner companies to celebrate this wrenching, beautiful play.
Expand the Canon is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program), and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
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