Hitler'sTherapist is the world premiere of a new
Carey Harrison one-act play, which the Woodstock Players Theater Company
are presenting in a staged, rehearsed reading, directed by the author. The play tells the story of Anna, a psycho-analyst whom Adolf Hitler
consults during the 1930s, because she is the only non-Jewish analyst he
can find, and he has a severe problem: the only woman he will ever love
in his lifetime, his half-niece Geli Raubal, whom he is holding
prisoner against her will in his apartment, wants to kill herself. Can
Anna-Maria save the day? And who is the one who really needs help -
Hitler, or his niece? The play has many unanticipated twists, leading to
a climax no less astonishing than its subject matter.
Hitler's Therapist, directed by Carey Harrison,
features Elisabeth Henry as Anna-Maria, and
Phillip X. Levine as her
nephew, Geoffrey. Costume and set designs by Claire Lambe.
The reading will take place on June 16 at 3 pm at the Kleinert/James Art Center of the Woodstock Guild in the center of the village of Woodstock. Please go to the Byrdcliffe Festival website for further information, reservation and tickets. All tickets for all Festival events are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door - NO
ticket sales over the phone! There will also be NO physical tickets.
Please print out your receipt if you have purchased tickets online.
However, if you accidentally forget to bring your receipt to the
performance, we will have your name on a ticket holders list for that
particular performance. Note there are also festival passes for $100 that allow access to all events on offer.
August 1 - 4, 2013
“Two's Company…Three's a Crowd”
An electrically edifying collaboration of Justin Kolb’s pianistic pyrotechnics and dramatic, revealing readings by Carey Harrison from the personal journals of and correspondence _ between Liszt, Verdi and Wagner! Click on the title above to access the PFofV for more information about this and other festival events, and to purchase tickets.
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by Carey Harrison
Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts 2012
Hedgerow Specimen was directed by the author, designed
by Claire Lambe, with stellar cast comprising: Violet Snow, Ric Bennett, Holly Graff and Joseph
Bongiorno.
*See our UP Next page for audience responses to the premiere of the play in June*
Synopsis: it is the story of a woman who, one evening, kisses her children goodnight and goes out for a walk, and keeps on walking for 27 years. She travels on foot
across America, accompanied only by her pet snail. Her idyllic
journey comes to a halt when she witnesses a murder and is drawn into a
relationship with the murderer - and a new mission.
Carey Harrison hosted a playwriting workshop, the results of which were laugh-out-loud funny. Participants were given the following instructions -:
Here is your cast: Violet Snow, Richard Bennett, Carey Harrison, Joseph Bongiorno and Holly Graff:-
We also staged the
Byrdcliffe Festival Cabaret
Here are some images from that:
Above: Faith Otay singing the blues accompanied by Tim Ruscoe on guitar
Below: Sharon Breslau accompanied by Charles Cornelius.
Below: Claire Lambe as MC with band Mr. Oh introducing the next act. And right, in the gorgeous silver dress, is comedian Audrey Rapoport who did one of her hilarious skits.
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