Playwrights Forum

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MADAME DE TREYMES - by Edith Wharton

Monday, April 15, 7 pm
Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas 92024

Staged Reading: $5.00. Talkback. Refreshments.
Featuring: Linda Castro, Doug Jacobs, Jennifer Thorn, Patricia Elmore Costa.
Adapted by: Judith Montague

Edith Wharton's critically praised 1907 novella offers a masterful take on the moral and social problems that arise when one culture clashes with another. Madame deTreymes is Wharton's own version of Downton Abbey complete with American heiresses, fortune hunting French nobility, unhappy marriages, moral complications, old versus new money, questionable couplings - the usual belle epoch trappings and no voice is more authentic than Wharton's.

About the Author
The acknowledged master of cross continent intrigue, Edith Wharton is not only a great story teller and keen observer of social behavior, she is a profound moralist. An expatriate and wealthy socialite herself, Wharton examines her own motives for remaining in Paris - where she died at seventy four - through deTreymes and other works.

Playwrights Forum has collaborated with artists from San Diego's finest theatre groups: Moxie, New Village Arts, San Diego Black Theatre Ensemble, Asian American Rep, North Coast Rep., Classic Youth Theatre, Scripps Ranch & many others. If you are interested in participating, contact ETC (760-942-1382).

Our playwrights include: Joe Powers, Matt Thompson, Thelma deCastro, Margi Hillman, Judith Montague, Loralei McGill & Moira Keefe. We hope to be reading the works of more authors.

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Past Readings

2013
Amelia Earhart Lost and Found by Tim West
The Galt Regency by Judith Montague

2012
Deadly Serious by Loralie McGill Ardolino
Speed the Plow by David Mamet
Secrets & Lies by San Diego Actors Theatre
Mercutio by Christover R
Mustard Seed by Joe Powers
Breaking Down and Breaking Through by Odds, Bobs, Hammer Tongs
Who's Afraid of Me, Myself & Edward Albee by Matt Thompson

2011
At a Bar in South Park by Loralei McGill
The Greek Chorus Play by Margi Hillman
Master Forger by David Wiener
San Diego Actors Who Write directed by Patricia Elmore Costa
Game of Theory by Joe Powers
Mystery of Peking Man by Judith Montague
Shakespeare's Brother by Carol Roper
The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe adapted Loralie McGill

2010
My Year of Living Dangerously by Moira Keefe
The Immortality of Marjorie Rayburn by Judith Montague
Taxi Dance by Joe Powers
Kangaroo by Margi Hillman
Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde adaptation by Loralie McGill
Selective Hearing by Matt Thompson
Bachelor Moon by Thelma de Castro

2009
Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing with Moxie Theatre
My Year of Living Anxiously by Moira Keefe
Hardeen & the Invincible Handcuffs by Judith Montague

2008
To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote
The Real Inspector Hound & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard