NYC and UK P-Listers: Invite to the Theater

[Richard Ryan]

I apologize to all the non-NYC/non-UK p-listers for this irrelevant
interruption, but I have an offer that I thought might be of interest to at
least some of my Pynchonian friends who care about literature and theatre
(which means all of you!).

My theater company, Verse Theater Manhattan, is about to go to England for a
10 day tour of major English universities.  We'll be performing WAR MUSIC --
our all-female adaptation of a section of Homer's Iliad.  This is from the
version of the epic by Christopher Logue, one of the great wild men of
modern British verse; it's a dazzling, visceral version of the poem, if I do
say so myself. Plus the actresses are hot!

At 8PM this Saturday, March 1st, we're going to be having a benefit
performance to launch the tour at Baruch College's Engelmann auditorium.
Public tickets are $50/$25 --  and if you want to come and can afford the
ticket, great! -- but I am able to offer the hard-typing bohemians of the
Pynchon list the special student discount of $10 a seat.  Just mention the
P-list when you buy your ticket.  Anyone who shows up with our fellow New
Yorker TRP himself in tow gets in at no charge!!

More info is copied below.  E-mail me for a reservation.   UK list members:
the complete UK show list is copied just below the Baruch info.  Check with
the individual universities for ticket prices: some of them are free!

Hoping to meet at least a few of you in person this Saturday.

Best,
Richard Ryan

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One Night Only!
VERSE THEATER MANHATTAN
PRESENTS A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE OF
W A R   M U S I C

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE
WITH
JO BARRICK*      MARYBETH BENTWOOD    JENNIFER DON*

ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE AND DIRECTED BY
JAMES MILTON

Lighting Design and Production Management by Melissa Parrish



In support of our upcoming tour of England, Verse Theater Manhattan presents
a benefit performance of WAR MUSIC, the first of Christopher Logue’s savage
modern verse adaptations of Homer’s Trojan War epic, the ILIAD.  From March
7th through March 15th, VTM will perform WAR MUSIC at the universities of
Cambridge, Oxford, East Anglia, Exeter, Notre Dame (London) and Bristol, as
well as the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London.

About this provocative staging of history’s greatest epic, which features an
all-female cast, Andrew Stuttaford, writing in the National Review, called
WAR MUSIC “moving, brutal, and chilling
 its fierce, terrible beauty makes
it a text for our times
 a reminder of what our culture’s traditions and
memory can mean.”

Please help launch our first international tour by joining us for this
one-night-only performance of VTM’s acclaimed contemporary masterpiece, WAR
MUSIC.  There will be a reception with the cast and director following the
show.

THE ENGELMAN RECITAL HALL, BARUCH COLLEGE
55 LEXINGTON AVENUE (enter on 25th Street)
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 8:00PM ? RESERVATIONS:  212-923-7978
www.versetheatermanhattan.com
Tickets: $50 (reserved), $25 (general)
*Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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March 2003 *War Music* UK Tour
Public Performance Schedule

Verse Theater Manhattan launches its first international tour with a week
long visit to the UK of it acclaimed production of Christopher Logue’s  WAR
MUSIC.


·	Fri, 7th March - Cambridge (ADC Theatre, 2:30pm matinee)
Sponsored by the Judith E Wilson fund

·	Sat, 8th March - Oxford (Magdalen College Auditorium, 8:00pm)
Sponsored by the President & Fellows of Magdalen College
	and the Jowett Copyright Trust

·	Mon, 10th March - East Anglia (Studio Theatre, 7:30pm performance)
Sponsored by the School of Classics

·	Wed, 12th March - Exeter (Studio Theatre, 8PM)
Sponsored by the School of Classics, Ancient History and Theology,
School of English and School of Performance Arts

·	Thu, 13th March – University of London (New Theater, 8PM)
Co-Sponsored by Notre Dame – London Program
	and the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London

·	Fri, 14th March - Bristol (Wickham Theatre, 7:30PM)
Sponsored by the School of Classics