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Angelica Torn to Return in Edge

Angelica Torn in Edge
Angelica Torn in Edge

Angelica Torn will reprise her acclaimed performance as poet Sylvia Plath in Paul Alexander’s solo play Edge, September 4-October 8 at the ArcLight Theater. The show will open officially on September 9.

The play covers Plath’s life from her early years in Boston to her infamous suicide attempt in 1953 to her troubled marriage to the poet Ted Hughes. Plath is best known as the author of The Bell Jar.

The show was previously seen in New York in 2003 at the DR2 Theatre. Torn will tour with the play, including stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Zealand, and Australia in 2008.

Torn is the daughter of Rip Torn and the late Geraldine Page. She starred on Broadway in Side Man and her many other stage credits include Vivat Vivat Regina, Death and the Maiden, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and From Riverdale to Riverhead.

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