Category Archives: Plays and Performances

Online Performance: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH SONG CYCLE

PASTICHENYC AND THE MOUNT present THE HOUSE OF MIRTH SONG CYCLE

The tragedy of the most beautiful girl in Gilded Age New York is Edith Wharton’s revenge!

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PASTICHENYC ​
​AND THE MOUNT
​Proudly present

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH SONG CYCLE

The tragedy of the most beautiful girl in Gilded Age New York is Edith Wharton’s revenge!

LIVE STREAMING THE COMPLETE SERIES ON MAY 18TH ​
​7:00 PM

FOLLOWED BY A TALKBACK “WHARTON, ROSEDALE, AND ANTI-SEMITISM” WITH CREATOR EMILY KING AND WHARTON SCHOLAR & AUTHOR OF “ROSEDALE IN LOVE” LEV RAPHAEL

YOUTUBE.COM/@PASTICHENYC or YOUTUBE.COM/@edithwharton167

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Wharton in the News: Unearthly Visitants, A New Play Based on Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton, October 22-24, 2021, in Brooklyn, NY

UNEARTHLY VISITANTS
A New Play based on ghost stories by Edith Wharton

Adapted and Directed by Kevin Ray 
A fierce social critic and the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize (The Age of Innocence, 1920) Edith Wharton’s chilling short stories are the beating heart of this devised play probing the confinement of social norms and the price the living pay for ignoring the past. The performance includes the stories “Afterward”, “The Eyes”, “Miss Mary Pask” and “Bewitched”. 

Performances: Friday, October 22, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 23, 2:00 PM*
Saturday, October 23, 7:30 PM
Sunday, October 24, 2:00 PM 

Venue: Triskelion Arts
106 Calyer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222 

* Following 2:00 PM performance on Saturday, October 23, director Kevin Ray will host a free, interactive talk-back with audience members. Tickets are available at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unearthly-visitants-tickets-164011549961
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UNEARTHLY VISITANTS is performed by permission of the Estate of Edith Wharton and the Watkins/Loomis Agency.

UNEARTHLY VISITANTS is a fiscally sponsored project of Brooklyn Arts Council.

UNEARTHLY VISITANTS is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. Funding has also been made possible by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. UNEARTHLY VISITANTS 
A New Play based on ghost stories by EDITH WHARTON 
Directed & Adapted by KEVIN RAY
October 22, 23 & 24, 2021CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS
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