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Friday Staged Reading: Poems That Tell Stories: Classic Narrative Poems

September 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Building on the success of our first rehearsed reading via Zoom,

Friday, October 2, 8 pm,

 

we will be at it again with

Poems that Tell Stories: Classic Narrative Poems

directed by Paul Baker

 

The Program

The Skeleton in Armor, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow– read by Ron Chafetz

Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer– read by Bill Hohnke & Corinna Christman

The Last One, W.S. Merwin – read by Andrea Holliday

Robert Burns, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow– read by Billy Cooper

Aunt Imogen, by Edwin Arlington Robinson -– read by Laura MacGregor & Mela Woods

A Nonsense Rhyme, by James Whitcomb Riley – read by Ron Chafetz

The Lady of Shallot, by Alfred Lord Tennyson– read by Marilyn Cavicchia & Paul Baker

The Pursuit, by Ursula K. Le Guin — read by Billy Cooper

The Death of the Hired Man, by Robert Frost – read by Corinna Christman & Bill Hohnke

The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes– read by Ruth Kadanoff

Visit the event on our Facebook page and click “going”; we’ll send you the Zoom info.

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