Crimea-born actress Alla Nazimova was once the highest-paid film actress in the world. After a series of scandals and box-office flops, her name is mostly lost to history.
Ghostlight Closes Out For Your (Re)Consideration Series With THE ENCHANTMENT
The cast features Andrew Bosworth, Rebecca Flores, Madeline Pell, Nina Romeo, Janice Rumschluag, Daniel Stewart and Robert Von.by BWW News Desk
Ghostlight Ensemble will present the final play in its series on historically overlooked female playwrights, The Enchantment. The play by the Swedish writer Victoria Benedictsson is a fascinating examination of a woman s capacity for love and yearning for a sense of her own self.
Director Holly Robison is excited to finally be able to share this play she s loved for years with an audience. The Enchantment tackles issues that are deeply personal to those in the theatre - the importance of a professional or artistic purpose in life, and how it can affect self-worth, relationships and power dynamics.
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Director Christina Casano (Photo by Joe Mazza)
Ghostlight Ensemble presents the penultimate play in its series on historically overlooked female playwrights, Warp and Woof. The play by the British novelist and playwright Edith Lyttelton scrutinizes the ethics of power, commerce and labor in a deeply unequal society.
Though written in 1904, Warp and Woof remains startlingly relevant, according to director Christina Casano. Over the last year, society has had to classified grocery store workers, public transit workers, streets and sanitation workers, factory workers and the like as essential and yet many of them are paid minimum wage at most, and treated as if they are easily replaceable, she explained.
Ghostlight Ensemble Presents DISTINGUISHED VILLA
Kate O Brien s Distinguished Villa portrays the desperate lives led by the commuting class.by BWW News Desk
Ghostlight Ensemble continues its series on historically overlooked female playwrights with Distinguished Villa, a play by the Irish playwright Kate O Brien dealing with the suffocating consequences that can come from the trappings of middle-class life.
Though written in 1926, Distinguished Villa, has a modernness to it and a feeling of relevancy that time has proved many of O Brien s male counterparts lack, according to director Elizabeth Lovelady. When I read Distinguished Villa, I was amazed with how contemporary it felt, particularly in regard to the way it challenged gender norms and represented female sexuality, Lovelady said. While these characters were born of another era, their interior battles are strikingly similar to those we all currently face. I think it serves as a reminder of the many commonalities humans