Innocents
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 10, 2005
Closed Feb 5, 2005
Opened Jan 10, 2005
Closed Feb 5, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Ripe Time celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Edith Wharton's hearbreaking novel The House of Mirth with a NEW stage adaptation Innocents. Innocents is a timely tale of glamour, jealousy, ambition and betrayal set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York.
Ripe Time is hosting a Panel discussion on Sunday, January 23rd at 4:00 entitled Gender, Privilege and Power: Staging the House of Mirth in the Age of Martha Stewart. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Rachel Brownstein of Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center and will also take place at the Ohio Theatre. The Panel is open and FREE. For reservations call 718-622-3650
There is an additional performance on Wednesday February 2 at 8:00pm
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"I am horribly poor -- and very expensive," says Lily Bart, the heroine of Edith Wharton's turn-of-the-century novel The House of Mirth. Ripe Time's new stage adaptation of the book, entitled Innocents, is at once extremely faithful to the novel and prone to abstraction. The play contains several snippets of dialogue, such as the above quotation, taken verbatim from Wharton's text; but other passages are expressed almost exclusively through dance and movement.
The stylish production was conceived, adapted, and directed by Rachel Dickstein, artistic director of Ripe Time. She was assisted by Emily Morse, who served as co-adapter and dramaturg. Performed by a cast of seven -- most playing mul[...]