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GRACEFUL AGING: Gertie and Alice by t...
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Thursday Summer Reading Series Under the Tent at NHTP July 15 - 7:00 pm Tickets $10 (seating in 2-and-4-person pods) All readings will be followed by a panel discussion with artists and experts on themes reflected in the play. THEME: Graceful Aging: Capability, Creativity and Value PLAY: Gertie and Alice by the Sea by Caridad Svich In the last house in the world, two women live out their days. They could be the famous Gertie and Alice, but they are not necessarily. They still do the things we do–eating, talking, laughing with friends and lovers—until what they know begins to slip away, and all that is left is desire. Playwright Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator nspired by her background. She was born in the US to Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents and moved many times as a child, leading to a sense of dislocation she explores in her writing. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievemen tin the theatre, a 2012 Edgerton FoundationNew Play Award and NNPNrolling world premiere for Guapa, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based Isabel Allende’s novel. She has won the National Latino Playwriting Award (sponsored by Arizona Theatre Company)twice, including in the year 2013 for her play Spark. She has been short-listed for the PENAward in Drama four times, including in the year 2012 for her play Magnificent Waste. She sustains a parallel career as a theatrical translator and teaches creative writing and playwriting at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Primary Stages' Einhorn School of Performing Arts.