HOW IT REALLY HAPPENED
Followed by Q&A with
playwright, director and cast
Directed by W. Langdon Brown
A staged reading with cast
members Janet Hurley Kimlicko, Steve Madore, Gary Maggio, Patrick McKenna,
Barbara Richards, Eileen Schuyler and Don Paul Shannon
April 8 (Tuesday)
Dramatic Reading – 7:00 p.m.
[Note early start time], Science Library 340, Uptown Campus
Whose story is the true story?
How can one grasp control of the narratives of one’s own life? Working on her
new book, writer Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) struggles to come to terms with her
past in an attempt to challenge the notorious stories of her overbearing
father, the world-renowned author and dramatist August Strindberg.
Eszter Szalczer is a dramaturg, theatre historian, and scholar of
modern drama. Her recent book August Strindberg (Routledge
Modern and Contemporary Dramatists, 2010) focuses on the Swedish playwright as
one of the most radical innovators of the modern stage. It was when working on
her previous book, Writing Daughters: August Strindberg's Other Voices (Norvik Press 2008) that
Eszter became interested in exploring the creative processes of writing, the
role of memory, the fine line between fiction and non-fiction, and how the same
story could be told differently from several different perspectives.
Langdon Brown is
a Fellow of the Writers Institute, UAlbany English professor and director of
Authors Theatre. He has worked as a producer, arts administrator, director and
dramaturge in the London Fringe, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, and on a
variety of university campuses.
Cast
Janet Hurley Kimlicko. A member of Actor’s Equity, she has
performed in Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Houston, and New York City. She was last
seen in How Water Behaves (CapRep), The Little Foxes, Arms and the Man and Ah!
Wilderness with Theater Voices, and Right
You Are (Theater East).
Steve Madore
received his MA in Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism from the State
University of New York at Albany and has completed several years of coursework
as a doctoral student in the Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana
University, Bloomington.
Gary Maggio,
semi-retired, works part-time as a standardized patient at Albany Medical
College. Recently he's acted in productions of Harvey, The Boys Next Door,
and Our Son's Wedding (Curtain Call
Theatre) Proof and Faith Healer (Albany Civic Theater), and
The Vanek Plays (Theater Voices).
Patrick McKenna
has performed on Capital Region stages for the past 30 years. Favorite roles
include Tom in The Glass Menagerie; Valmont in Les Liaisons
Dangereuses; Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest; the
Narrator in Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood and Dylan Thomas
in A Child's Christmas in Wales.
Barbara Richards is a
graduate of the University at Albany's Theatre Department. She has had a career
in theatre and arts administration in New York and Albany, and has worked
extensively as an actress with Curtain Call Theatre in Latham for the past 15
years
Eileen Schuyler
is delighted to return to UAlbany, where she taught acting for nine years. She
has performed at Soho Rep, Studio Arena Theater, Fulton Opera House, Capital
Rep, Stageworks/Hudson, Proctors Theater, HRS Showcase Theatre, Queens Theater
in the Park, NYSTI, Hubbard Hall and the Kennedy Center.
Don Paul Shannon
began his acting career in Philadelphia doing Shakespeare, Chekhov, O'Neill,
and DeGhelderode. At Lasalle Summer Theater he had starring roles in several
musicals: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, My Fair Lady, Allegro, and more.
