“O, Earth!” by Casey Llewellyn: A Staged Reading
Fri, May 11, 2018
7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Join us for a staged reading of O, Earth!, a play written by Casey Llewellyn. Led by Baruch College students Zeynep Akca, Roberta Cooper, Reuven Glezer, Ruth Ostrow, and Dana Spataru, and in collaboration with Baruch’s GLASS (Gender, Love, & Sexuality Studies) student organization. Mentored by Janet Werther and facilitated by Debra Caplan. This play transposes Thornton Wilder’s Our Town to a contemporary LGBTQ+ context, asking who lives (and dies) in “our” towns, and what queer legacies we hope to leave on this earth. Llewellyn queers Wilder’s self-contained world and colors outside the lines of its quiet, predictable framework. Quirky — even silly — and heart-wrenchingly earnest, O, Earth challenges queer audiences to develop a more capacious notion of community and “progress.”
O, Earth! Cast:
ACTOR / ROLE
Georgetta Buggs – Stage Manager
Maya Schnaider – Emily
Rhys A. Roffey – George
Jacob Cowan – Thornton Wilder/ Simon Stimson
Allegra Kuney – Ellen Degeneres
Danny Marin – Spencer
Ryan Knight – Duncan
Lizzy Lincoln – Portia de Rossi
Nyala Moon – Marsha P. Johnson
Jimena Lucero – Sylvia Rivera
This production is made possible in part by the generosity and support of the team at Teatro LATEA/The Clemente, 2nd Floor, 107 Suffolk St, NY, NY 10002.
Co-sponsored by Baruch College GLASS (Gender, Love, & Sexuality Spectrum) student organization, and CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Participants
Janet Werther
Teaching Fellow
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