Featuring Quinn Hawkesworth
Luminous and Literate
One Woman Performances
Designed for Easy Touring and Presenting
Arts-In-Education Programs
K - 5
Storytelling
from cultural and seasonal themes.
6 - 8
"Old Friends"
9 - 12
One Woman
Performances
Dramatic Readings
Acting Workshop: Creating A Character
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FAIR AND TENDER LADIES
adapted from the novel by Lee Smith
Adapted from Lee Smith's novel, this play weaves the poignant story of
Ivy Rowe, an Appalachian woman who hurls herself headlong into life.
Ivy's tale begins when she is 12, hungering to be a writer. Treasuring
the mountain songs and stories she was raised on, she sees her dreams
eroded by demands of family and survival. But at the end of her life we
see her urge to create has never really left her. "I was young then,
and I walked in my body like a queen."
MISTRESS OF THE MOORS: CHARLOTTE BRONTE
The story of her tragedies and triumphs is even more sensational than
her novel, Jane Eyre. At the lonely, windswept parsonage of Haworth on
the Yorkshire moors, we meet Charlotte and her famous family. She
reveals the passionate intelligence and integrity that drove her, and
the surprise of a love affair in the autumn of her life. Her sister
Emily's words might well be describing her: "No coward soul is mine..."
THE BELLE OF AMHERST
Emily Dickinson: She is America's most mysterious writer, a poet who
eluded many schemes to catch a glimpse of her--until now. This
portrait, her "letter to the world", reveals a woman far different from
the popular image of a repressed New England spinster. Along the way
are generous helpings of her poetry and wickedly funny flashes of her
wit.
QUINTESSENTIAL DRAMATIC READINGS
"Pride of Place" - Vivid selections from some of the South's most
memorable authors including Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton and
others.
"The Giving Season" - A journey through the Christmas season, including old favorites and some unfamiliar treasures.
"Scarlett Fever" - The Southern Belle in all her flogry, from such
writers as Eudora Welty, Poe, and of course, Margaret Mitchell.
"Old Friends" - Readings from the literary companions of childhood. Learn why they still have gentle lessons for adults.
"Lifespan" - A selection of magical portraits of women from the cream of literature: Twin, Shakespeare, Poe and others.
"Addie" - From Mary Lee Settle's colorful, nostalgic memoir of her grandmother, matriarch of a vast and eccentric family.
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