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GONNE - BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
It's been a while since I had a play produced, so I am naturally excited by the NYC premiere of GONNE/YEATS - a literary cabaret which is a collaboration between myself and St. Louis playwright Dennis Corcoran.
The purpose of GONNE/YEATS is to introduce the world to Maud Gonne.
Maud is known as the St. Joan of Ireland, though for our purposes here in the US, it might be more effective to align her with Angela Davis.
GONNE/YEATS explores Maud through the eyes of Irish poet W. B. Yeats (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923), who is said to have written over 800 poems either to or about her - not to mention proposing to her five times over their life times - and eventually getting so frustrated that he proposed to her daughter!
A story worthy of a Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracey movie, and there is a movie to be made here.
Our cast features JR Robinson and Maryanna Principe as Mr. Yeats and Ms. Gonne. Thanks to my collaborator's knowledge of Irish music, we are weaving in a bit of music, which will be performed by Vocalist Jessica Kaufman and Violinist Amelia Meena.
Spiral Theatre Studio's Artistic Director, Paula J. Riley, will bring a narrative voice to the cabaret in the persona of Countess Constance Markievicz, Maud's great ally in the women's voice for Irish Independence.
GONNE/YEATS fuses the poetry of Yeats with the writings of Gonne.
For details and to make a reservation, go to www.metropolitanroom.com and search the calendar for Saturday, June 15 at 4:00 pm.
BTW - June 13 is Mr. Yeats' 148th birthday, so this is a bit of a birthday party as well!
Jaz Dorsey
Dramaturge/Managing Director
The Spiral Theatre Studio
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