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Audience participation encouraged
Audience members continue to help writers “Play with a Play,” the monthly play reading workshop sponsored by Boz and the Bard Productions, Inc. at the Center For Modern Dance Education, Hackensack.
The next session, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m., features a play by NYC playwright Julie Halpern. “Shining Days” explores the relationship of poet William Butler Yeats with his fellow members of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an elite occult society which flourished in London and Paris from 1887 to 1918. The Golden Dawn attracted many of Europe's literary and artistic giants, who fused scholarly pursuits with occult studies which profoundly catalyzed modern theatrical and literary traditions. The Golden Dawn was the first organization of its type to initiate women as equal partners.
Halpern has been active as a performer, director, playwright and journalist in a career that spans more than 25 years. She is the artistic director of Love Street Theatre, an off-Broadway production company in Manhattan.
Boz and the Bard (a.k.a. B&B) invites all residents to take a script in hand and be part of the show. No experience is necessary to participate. Steve Hess and Frank Avellino, as directors, will guide participants through the process. Others can also choose to sit back and watch the story unfold.
Avellino and Hess are lining up an interesting assortment of new works-in-progress. On March 1, NJ writer Benjamin Rose will offer up his play, "The Audition," a play about an actor who awaits an audition as a series of revelations unravel before him.
"Play With a Play" audiences need only bring their interest in theater in order to participate in an evening of live entertainment. For less than the price of a movie, the “Play with a Play” sessions will continue monthly at the Center For Modern Dance Education, 84 Euclid Ave. in Hackensack.
All sessions begin at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door, $7 for students and seniors. Watch for upcoming dates, or visit www.bozandthebard.com.
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