Ghost Light: The Haunting A Staged Reading by Ophelia's Jump
Date and Time
Sunday Oct 30, 2016
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Sunday October 30, 2016 at 4pm
Location
Theatre Company Performing Arts Studio
1400 N Benson Ave
Upland Ca
Fees/Admission
Pay What you Want! All proceeds will go to support OJP's permanent home fund.
Website
Contact Information
info@opheliasjump.org or by calling 909-734-6565
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Description
This event is sponsored by Ophelia's Jump Productions.
HALLOWEEN -- OJP STYLE STAGED READING FUNDRAISER!
Join us for a staged reading of Ghostlight: The Haunting a brand new work by Carol Sorgenfrei, directed by Penny Bergman. Sunday October 30, 2016 at 4pm at the Theatre Company Performing Arts Studio, 1400 N. Benson Ave., Upland.
Presented by OJP as part of its mission to support the development of new works. Be part of the very important play workshopping process! Pay What you Want! All proceeds will go to support OJP's permanent home fund. There will be a Q&A with audience members and a reception with the author, actors, and director after the performance.
About the Author: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei is a playwright, director, and scholar of Japanese and cross-cultural performance. Her fifteen original plays include the award-winning Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth (published by Samuel French), the kabuki-flamenco Blood Wine, Blood Wedding, the kyogen-commedia dell’arte The Impostor and A Wilderness of Monkeys (a revenge-comedy "sequel" to The Merchant of Venice). She is co-adapter with Israeli director Zvika Serper of the acclaimed Japanese-Israeli fusion play The Dybbuk/Between Two Worlds. Her original plays and translations from Japanese have been performed in America, Canada, Great Britain, Denmark, India, Israel, and Japan; and broadcast on PBS, NHK (Japanese TV), and BBC Radio. She has directed nearly forty stage productions in the USA, Japan, and India. Her book Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan (University of Hawaii, 2005) analyzes the complex work of playwright/director/filmmaker Terayama in cultural/historical context, and includes translations of his plays and theory. She is Professor Emerita of Theatre at UCLA and was recently a Fellow at the International Research Center on Interweaving Performance Cultures at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. She received her BA degree from Pomona College and both MA and PhD degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
