LIBRARY NOTES
Cathy Tempelsman & Richard Maltby Jr.
A Most Dangerous Woman Reading
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Members' Room; $20 in advance/$25 at the door
"You can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to
suffer the slavery of being a girl." - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
A Most Dangerous Woman is the little-known story of the English novelist George Eliot. A country girl, brilliant, passionate, and notoriously plain, she wanted convential marriage but was led by circumstances into a wildly creative and scandalous life. Forced to publish her novels - including
Silas Marner,
Daniel Deronda, and
Middlemarch - under a pseudonym, she became one of the country's most famous writers before anyone knew who she was. Her life is itself the stuff of great fiction - a literary story, a love story, and a mystery. Of the play's prior production,
CriticalRant.com said, "Nothing feels quaint or sedate about
Tempelsman's play...a marvelous candid portrayal of the emergence of a literary giant."
Cathy Tempelsman's A Most Dangerous Woman was seen in workshop at Echo Theatre in Dallas in September 2011, has had readings in New York and
elsewhere, and received a development grant from the Pilgrim Fund. She is also the author of a one-act, Missing, produced at Boston Playwrights Theatre, and the book
Child-Wise. The Society Library's Eliot collection was a major resource in the creation of her play.
Richard Maltby Jr. is the award-winning director, conceiver, and/or lyricist for the Broadway productions of Ain't Misbehavin' , Fosse, Baby, Closer Than Ever, Miss Saigon, and the film Miss Potter, among many others.
THIS EVENT IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ESTATE OF MARIAN O. NAUMBURG.
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