Tag: playwright

Dynamic duo – Follow your own path

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Unbeatable pairing on the West End of Main Street Gloucester, MA.:

Richard Leonard’s Bananas, 78 Main Street, iconic vintage clothing store many decades in business.

Sargent House Museum, Main Street next to Bananas (entrance at 49 Middle Street), historic house and writing studio (desk) of Judith Sargent Murray, Gloucester native, born in 1751, author & playwright, equality advocate. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), great American painter, her great grand nephew, contributed to preserving this architectural gem.

Laura Harrington poses a challenge related to the 19th Amendment|”Perfect 36″ talk hosted by Daring Democracy #RockportMA tonight

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Laura asks GMG to share a reminder for tonight and writes:

I’m speaking in Rockport as part of the UU Church’s Daring Democracy series.  If you can post about it, I’d be most grateful. 

We decided to sing about some unsung heroes – the women who led the fight for the right to vote. This amazing story is not in most history books, and if you can find it in high school text books, please let me know. I’ll be talking about the musical we wrote – PERFECT 36 – about the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote at the UU Church in Rockport on 11/14 @ 7. Please join me. This story – which took place in 1920 – feels a whole lot like 2020 and is more relevant than ever.

Laura Harrington

www.lauraharringtonbooks.com

Author of A Catalog of Birds, Europa Editions
“A soaring new novel about love and loss.” The Washington Post
Alice Bliss, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, A Boston Globe Bestseller

LAURA HARRINGTON Perfect 36 discussion at Rockport UU November 2019 flyer

Theater and film buffs: hometown scop Israel Horovitz on “My Old Lady”- adapting plays to film Thursday @SawyerLibrary

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Sawyer Free Library connecting notable speakers and community since 1830.

We’re lucky when artists touch down in their hometown(s). Come meet Israel Horovitz and relish an opportunity to hear him speak about his latest book, My Old Lady: Complete Stage Play and Screenplay With An Essay on Adaptation. Horovitz  has been coming to Gloucester since he was a boy, “brought here by my parents on special days. 70 years and 70 plays later, every day I spend in Gloucester is still very much a special day.” That’s a 2011 quote he gave me for the Rocky Neck marker on the HarborWalk.

Israel Horovitz on Thursday night, August 4th,  7pm, Sawyer Free Library.

I wonder why playwrights have the fancier spelling? The nomenclature of the writing world opted for screenwriter not screenwrighter, and the informal mash up of ‘screenplay’ over the dramatic double  ‘Stage (what?) Play (what else?)’.

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John Prybot is wonderful! Wearing the team colors and pointing to the poster for the Horovitz talk, front desk, Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library

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