Alley Theatre event at Czech Center - on topic of history and details of ROCK 'N ROLL and doesn't look like a performance to me

[A Aman]

Hi everyone --

Anne forwarded me info about the Czech Center Museum reception regarding the Alley Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's ROCK 'N' ROLL that Betty mentioned at our last meeting.

I had to read the notice twice and from what I can tell, the "presentation" that is mentioned refers to a speech by Mark Bly who is the Alley's Director of New Play Development.  (You won't find this notice of the event on the Czech Center web site, by the way.)

The event is April 7th, tomorrow evening from 5:30 to 7:30pm. The speech will be on details and history of the play and doesn't look to me like it will be a performance but please check this out yourself if you are interested. I could be wrong.

Here's a link to the Alley's website that has a notice about this event.

http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=241&SnID=120420735

Take care --

--Alice

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UPCOMING READING SELECTIONS

-- May 3, 2009 ROCK 'N ROLL performance at Alley Theatre - 2:30 pm (for those who have purchased tickets)
Let Alice know if you want to be included in reservations for dinner following the performance.

-- May 7, 2009 CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole (publ 1980) 352 pages
Pulitzer Prize winner in 1981
Setting is New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is an intelligent but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, because of family circumstances, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Many locals and writers of New Orleans think that it is the best and most accurate depiction of the city in a work of fiction.
-- Claudia will lead discussion

-- June 4, 2009  TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE  by Bohumil Hrabal (self published in 1977) 112 pages
Considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, the man whom Kundera considers to be  one of his masters.
Tells the story of an eclectic and dimwitted old man who works as a paper crusher at a hydraulic press in a dark cellar in Prague. Using his job to save and amass astounding numbers of rare and banned books, he is an obsessive collector of knowledge. The books that he must destroy become his whole life, his only companions.
--Jo will lead discussion
Note: At end of discussion in June, group will vote on new titles for upcoming reading list..

-- July 2, 2009  SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury (publ 1972) 317 pages
About two thirteen-year-old boys who have a harrowing experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who bears a tattoo for each person who, lured by the offer to live out his secret fantasies, has become bound in service to the carnival. Novel places emphasis on the more serious side of the transition from childhood to adulthood.
-- Cassie will lead discussion

-- August 6, 2009 MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis (publ 1920) 448 pages
First American to win Nobel Prize in 1930.
Captures the aura of small town America which requires conformity to tradition and social standards in exchange for recognition, respect and love from one's neighbors, versus the City as depicted by Washington which seems to offer freedom and individuality precisely because there's no one there who cares about you or what you do.
--Susan will lead discussion