On Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 pm, in the Hubbard Room of Russell Library, Readers' Theater will present The Sunset
Limited by Cormac McCarthy. Readers Theater is live drama enacted by local actors, directed by Richard B. Kamins and Anne Cassady.
This is a dramatic
dialogue between a white professor and a black ex-convict who deliver
opposing views of life and human nature; competing voices of
empirical reasoning and world-wearying experience; and, on the
other hand, hope and the transcendent spirit.
A review by Niall Griffiths states:
"Both men are prisoners, White of logic and Black of felt moral duty and need of Higher Power approval. Both experiences – of mystical hope, and of destructive despair – have been mediated through cultural symbols, which render them less powerful.
This is simplification, of course, and The Sunset Limited cannot be accosted with a demand for ready meaning; nor can atheistic or spiritual epiphanies. Such events, and such books, are too rich for and blessedly resistant to that."
This
presentation is funded by The Friends of the Russell Library.
The Friends of the Russell Library is a non-profit organization composed of citizens who believe that an excellent library is essential to a community, and who work to promote and assist Russell Library. They do this primarily through book sales. Their next book sale is the Holiday Book Sale, which begins Friday, November 18th at 10:00am, and runs through Sunday, November 20, at 4:00pm, in the Activity Room of the library.
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Reading and performing this powerful play are Middletown native Peter Loffredo with his friend Terry. It's a privilege to work with both of them.
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