Between the Lines

Get the most out of your Remy Bumppo experience - join us to see what's Between the Lines! Remy Bumppo's Between the Lines events are offered once per play as part of a special Saturday matinee.

For the first time, Remy Bumppo’s 2011/2012 Between the Lines pre-show lecture events will feature the adaptors and writers of the season’s plays as our special guests. Each Between the Lines event includes a pre-show talk with the writer, the play’s performance, and a post-show discussion with the writer and cast. It is a wonderful afternoon of think theatre!

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All tickets include the pre-show event, performance, and post-show discussion.

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When and Where

Mourning Becomes Electra
Saturday, October 15 at 1:30 pm
Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre, shares his passion for O’Neill and illuminates how he packed all the power of Mourning Becomes Electra in to just half the time.

Changes of Heart
Saturday, December 10 at 1:30 pm
Stephen Wadsworth, whose translations of Marivaux have created a bold resurgence of the author in America, will join us to discuss Changes of Heart.

Chesapeake
Saturday, April 14 at 1:30 pm
Lee Blessing, the prolific contemporary playwright, will discuss his own rich point of view on making new art in our country in the context of his magical fable Chesapeake.

These events are held at the Greenhouse Theater Center at 2257 N Lincoln Ave

Our Guests, The Playwrights

Gordon Edelstein has directed over a hundred plays, musicals, and operas across the U.S. as well as Europe. Most recently his acclaimed production of The Glass Menagerie played the Roundabout Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum and was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. For the Roundabout he also directed the American Premiere of A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonaugh and Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, and later this year he will direct the Broadway production of A Road to Mecca, starring Rosemary Harris, Jim Dale and Carla Gugino. Other NY work includes: Richard Nelson’s Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage), the premiere of BFE by Julia Cho (Playwrights Horizons), The Day the Bronx Died by Michael Henry Brown, and many others. Upcoming projects include the world premieres of Sophie’s Choice (Long Wharf Theatre) and Dael Orlandersmith’s Horsedreams (Rattlestick), and The Crucible (Hartford Stage). He is in his tenth year as Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT) where he has recently begun an association with Athol Fugard, directing the premieres of his most recent work: Coming Home, Have you Seen Us? (starring Sam Waterston), and The Train Driver. His directing work at Long Wharf has been recognized by six Connecticut Critics Circle Awards as well as the Tom Killian Award for Outstanding Artist in the State. Before Long Wharf, he served for five years as Artistic Director of ACT in Seattle. He has directed regionally from Washington, DC’s Arena Stage to Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, including such plays as Uncle Vanya (also adapted), The Crucible (Wall Street Journal Best Regional Production of the Year), Death of a Salesman, A Doll’s House (also adapted), The Front Page, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and the premieres of A Scent of the Roses and A New War.

Director and writer Stephen Wadsworth has translated and adapted plays by Molière, Marivaux and Goldoni, all commissioned by the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, and operas by Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart. His Marivaux titles (Changes of Heart, The Triumph of Love, and The Game of Love and Chance), all played widely around the country, are published as Marivaux: Three Plays by Smith and Kraus, which will soon publish his revelatory version of Molière’s Don Juan.  For his literary and scholarly work on these two writers’ work the French government named him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.  He wrote the opera A Quiet Place with Leonard Bernstein and has dramaturged and directed new plays and operas by Beth Henley, Anna Deavere Smith, Daron Hagen and Peter Lieberson.  As a director he is known as a master of the classical repertoire and one of America’s most important and influential operatic artists.  He has directed opera at La Scala, Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera Covent Garden, and in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Fe, and plays at Roundabout and Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre, and many other companies. Current work includes Terrence McNally’s Master Class on Broadway with Tyne Daly, Boris Godunov, Iphigénie en Tauride and Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera, Wagner’s Ring cycle at Seattle Opera, and a new translation of Beaumarchais’ three Figaro plays. He is a Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute, and holds two teaching positions—Head of Dramatic Studies at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and The James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow and Director of Opera Studies at The Juilliard School, where he has developed the first intensive acting course for singers. 

Lee Blessing: Broadway, London’s West End and Moscow: A Walk in the Woods (Tony, Pulitzer and Olivier nominations, American Theater Critics Association Award).  Off-Broadway: Going to St. Ives (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, best play) and A Body of Water, both produced by Primary Stages; Thief River (Drama Desk nomination, best play), produced by the Signature Theatre; Cobb (Drama Desk Award, best ensemble); Chesapeake (Outer Critics Award for sound, nomination for best solo performance); Eleemosynary, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club; When We Go Upon the Sea and Down The Road.  Signature Theatre’s 1992-93 Season: Fortinbras, Lake Street Extension, Two Rooms and the world premiere of Patient A.  Recent world and regional premieres: Great Falls in the 2008 Humana New Play Festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville; A Body of Water (Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Award) at the Guthrie Theater and Old Globe Theatre; Lonesome Hollow at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.  Profile Theatre of Portland, OR devoted its 2010-2011 Season to Blessing’s plays.  Recent works include “Seven Joys” and “Wood for the Fire” for London’s Tricycle Theatre, A View of the Mountains and Courting Harry.  Other plays premiered by Yale Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Old Globe, the Alliance Theater and A Contemporary Theater in Seattle among others.  Film and television: Cooperstown for TNT (Humanitas Award).  Grants from the NEA as well as the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations.  Blessing heads the graduate playwriting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.  He lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles with his wife, playwright and TV writer/producer Melanie Marnich.