Reading Of 'Eastville'
A reading of "Eastville" by Ellen Lewis, directed by Guy Giarrizzo, will conclude the Bay Street Theatre's fall series of Sunday-morning play readings this weekend.
The play takes place in Eastville, an African American community in Sag Harbor that was a stop on the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. It is here that Harriet Tubman, the play's central character, has fled after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Laws.
Ms. Lewis is a member of the African American Playwrights Unit of Playwrights Horizon. Another of her works, "The Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky," is under development as a musical for the American Music Theater Festival's next season.
She is the author also of "Urban Candles," "Let the Bidding Begin," and "Crab Cakes," among other plays.
Mr. Giarrizzo has directed at Circle Rep and at the Lab Theatre Company at Circle-in-the-Square Downtown. He recently directed the New York premiere of Marlane Meyer's "The Geography of Luck" at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Complimentary bagels and coffee will be served in the lobby before the show, which starts at 11 a.m. A question-and-answer period with the playwright, director, and cast will follow the reading.
Appalachian Clog
"Rock, Rhythm, and Romance," provided by the musicians and dancers of the Foot and Fiddle Dance Company, will be on the Bay Street stage on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Since 1981, Pat Cannon and her company have performed a creative blend of such traditional folk dance forms as Appalachian clogging, square dancing, tap, Western swing, and Irish step dancing - all tied together by their emphasis on the rhythmic use of the feet, a lively theatricality, and contemporary flair.
Tickets for both of the weekend's events are available from the theater's box office on Long Wharf.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Bay Street is offering two popular attractions that may sell out early: Karen Akers in cabaret on Friday, Nov. 29, and the Paper Bag Players, who will give two performances for children on Nov. 30.