LIBRARY NOTES
 
Bill Connington and Razors Edge Productions
Plays by Joyce Carol Oates
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Members' Room; $40 for all three sessions (recommended); $15 per session
Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers
We Were the Mulvaneys and
Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the New York Times bestsellers
The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina) and
The Gravedigger's Daughter. She has received a PEN/Malamud Award for Achievement in the Short Story, the National Book Award, and the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature. A nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Although most famous for her fiction, Oates is also a prolific and widely produced writer of drama, with past productions by the Actors Studio in Stockholm, ACT Theatre, in Seattle, the Edinburg Festival, L.A. Theatre Works, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, the Long Wharf in New Haven, and the McCarter Theater in Princeton, among others. She was co-winner of the Heideman Award for a work produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisbille, and her play The Perfectionist was nominated for an American Theatre Critics Award.
In this event, acclaimed actor/playwright Bill Connington and a small cast of New York actors will bring to life some of Oates' lesser-known plays. Each text displays the combination of acute psychological insight, sense of America, and love of language that have made Oates' books modern classics.
Bill Connington was the creator and star of the extended-run, critically lauded show Zombie, adapted from a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. As an actor he has performed in New York and regional theater, independent film, and television. His recent plays include The Eternal Anniversary, which appeared at 59 East 59 Theater, Walker, The Perfect Lady, Dating Rituals of the American Male, and Lord Byron's Lover. He is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
These evenings are generously supported by the Estate of Marian O. Naumburg.
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