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Arts and Crafts Festival 2009

Jackie Bukowski — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:32:38 +0000

Sept. 12 & 13 11 am -5 pm

The Annual Arts and Crafts Festival Saturday will include a children’s crafts workshop at 11 am, and Director Morna Martell with the Dramatune theater company returns at 1 pm to reprise the “play within play” from this season’s “Mini Midsummer’s Nights Dream.”

The Sunday program features Greg Lorenz in a song recital with a Lute player and piano from 1-2 pm. The Vivian Sansom Reading series at 2 pm will again feature writers from our local New York City community. Howard Pflanzer, Victoria Sullivan, Rosalie Calabrese and other writers will be featured, and we have a new story from the Sansom archives!

There will be a reception for the artists and writers at 4 pm and Steven Jacobson and with the New York String Orchestra will serenade us between 4:30-5:30 pm.

There will be a Book Sale both days.

Mini-Midsummer’s Night Dream Opens 6 pm Saturday July 18

Jackie Bukowski — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:44 +0000

Sun July 19, Sat/Sun through Sin. Aug 9 at 5 pm
(All performances are at 5 pm, except the opening which is at 6 pm)
This year’s free Shakespeare festival for children welcomes back a reprise of last year’s successful run of a “Mini-Midsummer’s Nights Dream” adapted from William Shakespeare and directed by Morna Martell, with music by Ralph Martell.
Although this is billed as a children’s show, it is enjoyed by folks of all ages. All children attending are invited to join Puck’s merry Band during the performances to help cast a wider spell.
The professionally mounted production features Sarah Bolger returning as Puck, joined by Ellen Boyce as Helena, Carl Fortunato as Duke Theseus, Francesca Fortunato as Titania, John Paul Harkins as Oberon, Alex Harper as Snug and the Lion, Zelda Knapp as Bernla, the unforgettable Barry Leibman as Flute/Thisbe, and David Lutzer will again don his Donkey head to play Bottom./Pyramis, Charlie MacAndrew plays Snout/ the Wall, Randi Sobol Raiti/Quince, Dan Wuerdeman, the Starvling/Moon, and Brian Gerard Murray appears as Demetrius.
All performances are free, and will be presented in our Floral Amphitheater by the 89th Street entrance.
Garden Book Sales Sundays 2-4:30 pm,
Stop by early and browse the books. Priced to sell , hard cover books from $1 to $2, and paperbacks ( always better on the train) are just 50 cents, or three for a dollar .

Shakespeare in the Garden

Matthew Rohn — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:01:09 +0000

Every summer for the past six years Morna Murphy Martell has presented family-friendly adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in our beautiful Garden. This summer she brings us “A Mini Midsummer Night’s Dream” where neighborhood children in the audience can run in and participate as fairies, monsters or magic spirits. The cast will have familiar actors from the past six seasons, David Lutzer, Tony Scheinman, Barry Liebmann and Belle Caplis (last year’s Juliet).

Bring the kids this summer and be part of the fun. Saturdays and Sundays at 5 PM, from July 19 through August 17.

MORNA MURPHY MARTELL (Adapter/Producer) was an actress on Broadway then began writing and directing Off Off Broadway. She went West and ran the Next Stage Theatre in Hollywood. She has written dozens of plays and musicals in New York, Hollywood, Edinburgh and London. She has received grants for playwriting from the NEA, DCA/NY and Staten Island Arts (COAHSI). Her book “Classics 4 Kids – 5 plays for Children” is published by Puck Press and is available through www.shakespeareinc.com. Morna is a member of The Dramatist Guild and Actors Equity Association.

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Judith Rohn — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:59:12 +0000

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Judith Rohn — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:20:36 +0000