I will be presenting my "original oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO
at the Houston Fringe Festival this weekend. Here's the deets:
A note about the piece:
A note about the piece:
Since
the age of fifteen, during the first few weeks of his first ever theatre class,
Brad McEntire has been obsessed with the swashbuckling, romantic, tragicomic
play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand. In this original oration,
McEntire explores his fascination with Rostand’s play from many angles:
historical, literary and personal. Through this exploration, CYRANO A-GO-GO
reflects McEntire’s own life-long coming-to-terms with the hard lessons about
how art imitates life, and vice versa...
A note about the oration format:
A note about the oration format:
Oration,
in which a single speaker takes the stage to discuss a given topic, dates back as far as Cicero and was a
well-known format in Europe and America from the mid-1800s through the mid-1900s. A cross between a
theatrical performance, lecture and staged reading, the form was made popular
by such orators as Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. This
presentation is a deliberate, contemporary take on this format.
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| Charles Dickens |
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| Mark Twain |
When:
Thursday, September 6th at 7 PM
Friday, September 7th at 7 PM
Saturday, September 8th at 8:30 PM
Where:
Where:
Bohemeo's Cafe and Theatre,
708 Telephone Road,
Houston, TX 77023
As part of the Houston Fringe Festival.
708 Telephone Road,
Houston, TX 77023
As part of the Houston Fringe Festival.
For tickets head HERE.
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