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Lady Susan or The Captive Heart, A Jane Austen Bodice Ripper
by Lynn Marie Macy
2 PM, Saturday, November 14
Join us on ZOOM! Registration required -- see below.
by Lynn Marie Macy
2 PM, Saturday, November 14
Join us on ZOOM! Registration required -- see below.
About the play:
Manipulative, callous and cruel – the beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon is on a manhunt. To restore her broken fortunes, the greatest coquette in England sets out to snare a rich husband. She will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, including forcing her own daughter Frederica into an unwanted marriage. Will Lady Susan’s weakness for pleasure derail her own notorious intrigues? Literature’s greatest villainess is about to take center stage. This humorous adaptation illuminates Austen’s earliest novella while paying homage to Georgian theatrical traditions.
Playwright - Lynn Marie Macy*
Director - Sara Berg*
THE CAST:
Lady Susan Vernon --- April Armstrong *
Mrs. Alicia Johnson --- Meera Narasimhan
Miss Frederica Vernon --- Olivia Konteatis
Mr. William Mainwaring --- William Oliver Watkins*
Mrs. Mary Mainwaring --- Tonia E. Anderson*
Miss Maria Mainwaring -- Wilson --- C. Amanda Maud*
Sir Reginald De Courcy -- Museum Patron 2 --- Jomack Miranda
Sir James Martin -- Millie --- Andre DeSandies
Mr. Charles Vernon -- Mr. Johnson --- Leajato Robinson*
Mrs. Catherine Vernon -- Madame Camille -- Museum Patron 1 --- Clea Strauss Rivera*
Miss Becker -- Miss Summers -- Polly --- Melissa Canaday*
LYNN MARIE MACY is a playwright, actor and director who currently resides and works in New Jersey/ New York Area. Most recently Ms. Macy was thrilled to have her new script Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace read via Zoom with Theater 2020 co hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Her plays Vile Things In Dark Corners and Madame Campan’s Academy were also read via Zoom with The Theater Project and co-hosted by the Cranford Public Library. She has also worked with Cosmic Orchid Voire Dire Project last Spring 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.
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Manipulative, callous and cruel – the beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon is on a manhunt. To restore her broken fortunes, the greatest coquette in England sets out to snare a rich husband. She will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, including forcing her own daughter Frederica into an unwanted marriage. Will Lady Susan’s weakness for pleasure derail her own notorious intrigues? Literature’s greatest villainess is about to take center stage. This humorous adaptation illuminates Austen’s earliest novella while paying homage to Georgian theatrical traditions.
Playwright - Lynn Marie Macy*
Director - Sara Berg*
THE CAST:
Lady Susan Vernon --- April Armstrong *
Mrs. Alicia Johnson --- Meera Narasimhan
Miss Frederica Vernon --- Olivia Konteatis
Mr. William Mainwaring --- William Oliver Watkins*
Mrs. Mary Mainwaring --- Tonia E. Anderson*
Miss Maria Mainwaring -- Wilson --- C. Amanda Maud*
Sir Reginald De Courcy -- Museum Patron 2 --- Jomack Miranda
Sir James Martin -- Millie --- Andre DeSandies
Mr. Charles Vernon -- Mr. Johnson --- Leajato Robinson*
Mrs. Catherine Vernon -- Madame Camille -- Museum Patron 1 --- Clea Strauss Rivera*
Miss Becker -- Miss Summers -- Polly --- Melissa Canaday*
LYNN MARIE MACY is a playwright, actor and director who currently resides and works in New Jersey/ New York Area. Most recently Ms. Macy was thrilled to have her new script Jane Austen at Prinny’s Palace read via Zoom with Theater 2020 co hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Her plays Vile Things In Dark Corners and Madame Campan’s Academy were also read via Zoom with The Theater Project and co-hosted by the Cranford Public Library. She has also worked with Cosmic Orchid Voire Dire Project last Spring 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.
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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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