Our Saturday Reading Series is now virtual:
PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP MEMBERS present NEW WORK
Discussion with the author follows the reading.
The second Saturday of each month at 2 PM, September - November / January - July
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Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace
A new draft of Lynn Marie Macy’s work-in-progress 2 PM, Saturday, June 12 Join us on ZOOM! The event is free, but registration is required.
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Inspired by a true story - Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace is a comic exploration of the surprising day Jane Austen is invited by the Prince Regent and his Royal Librarian, James Stanier Clarke, to tour his Royal Residence Carlton House Palace… whether she desires this particular distinction or not. She certainly has fans in high places! Will Jane keep her wits about her? Will her family support her decision? Will there be any other offers she cannot refuse?
LYNN MARIE MACY is a playwright, actor and director who currently resides and works in New Jersey/ New York City Area. Macy most recently directed The Necessity of Divorce by Olympe de Gouge as well as her new translation/Adaptation of George Sands’ Gabriel both presented via Zoom by New Perspectives Theater Company for On Her Shoulders, a program focusing on historical women playwrights. She also co-directed and appeared in Shaw's Overruled for Theater 2020 in NYC. Ms. Macy recently had her new script Lady Susan or The Captive Heart, A Jane Austen Bodice Ripper read via Zoom with The Theater Project – as well as her plays Vile Things in Dark Corners and Madame Campan’s Academy which were also read via Zoom with The Theater Project and co-hosted by the Cranford Public Library. She has also worked with Cosmic Orchid Voir Dire Project as a director. Her most recent productions with the Theater Project are Getting Grandma’s Goat, The Surprising Measure Of Buried Treasure, The Couch Potato & The Armchair Activist, and Sister Resisters. Her play The Color of Vengeance was produced at New Perspectives Theater in New York City and McNeese University in Lake Charles, LA. Other recent scripts include Doubt & Deliberation (Staged Reading at Theater For The New City, NYC), and Macy’s script Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy. (Distilled Spirits Theatre, NYC, Blue Room Theatre, CA & Theater Ten Ten, NYC) was published by New York Theatre Experience in Playing with Canons, Explosive New Works from Great Literature by America’s Indie Playwrights And also recently published on Indie Theater Now. Macy’s other plays include Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen and Friends which she also directed (Distilled Spirits Theatre, Theater Ten Ten), A Thousand Merry Conceits, A Private Audience with Nell Gwyn (Theater Ten Ten; Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Crunching Numbers (Distilled Spirits Theatre, NYC) published by New York Theatre Experience in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium), and an adaptation/translation of Schiller’s Intrigue & Love (Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, NYC). Ms. Macy is a member of The Dramatists’ Guild, The New Perspectives Full Length Play Lab, The Theater Project’s Playwrights Group and is Playwright-in-Residence at Theater 2020 in New York City. |
Funds benefiting The Theater Project were provided by Friends of the Cranford Library. Donations to support The Theater Project gratefully accepted below.
NOTE: The donation process does not REGISTER you to receive the link for the event.
NOTE: The donation process does not REGISTER you to receive the link for the event.
Donations accepted above.
Friends of the Cranford Library generously support this monthly play reading series.
The Theater Project is deeply grateful to the Friends and to Library Director Michael Maziekien for hosting this event.
Friends of the Cranford Library generously support this monthly play reading series.
The Theater Project is deeply grateful to the Friends and to Library Director Michael Maziekien for hosting this event.
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"As director of the Cranford Public Library, I attend nearly all of The Theater Project play readings, and I am never less than highly impressed by the quality of the productions."
John Malar, Director (retired) Cranford Library |
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