Carl Ritchie, Producing Artistic Director
Please forgive the recent gaps in updating the site - but things are moving towards a great 2020 season this summer! Hope to see you! (This doesn't even reflect the lovely reprise Susan Fullerton did of
The Belle of Amherst
in Hope Town, Abaco - before the storm, in March. AND hopefully a new revue this summer as a benefit for Hope Town after Hurricane Dorian - working title:
Last Call at Three-Fingered Jack's
!)
(Reprise perfromances at the Whitney Center in Pittsfield, MA in March, 2019 - see under photo at right for link for tickets)
Our August, 2018 show will be -
"Lillian"
by William Luce based on the autobiographical writings of
Lillian Hellman
- starring
Diedre Bollinger
and directed by Carl Ritchie.
Performed at
St. John in the
Wilderness Church, 261 Route 344, Copake Falls, NY
:
on Aug. 24 and 25 at 7
p.m., and Aug. 19 and 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets
$20 (or pay what you can at the door), click on the link to the right.
AND a free preview on Copake Falls Day - August 18th at 2 p.m. - courtesy of our sponsors - click on their name to visit their websites:
The Kneller Agency
and
Herringtons, Inc
.
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Send email to
TaconicStage@aol.com
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Taconic Stage Company,
240 Island Drive,
Craryville, NY 12521
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(Some of our previous productions pictured above)
"Lillian"
Lillian,
a one-woman play about Lillian Hellman by William Luce, starring Diedre Bollinger and directed
by TSC founder and Artistic Director Carl Ritchie.
Based on the autobiographical writing of the hard-living
playwright whose works include
The Little Foxes
,
The
Children’s Hour
, and her memoir,
Pentimento
, dramatist Luce
creates an intense, intriguing, and intimate portrait of a woman who was often
caustic and controversial but never dull.
Set in the waiting room of a New York hospital, as she
maintains a vigil for her longtime love, novelist Dashiell Hammett, Hellman remembers
the people and incidents that shaped her life. From her headstrong girlhood in
New Orleans and New York, through her exciting and tempestuous years with Hammett,
to her achievements on Broadway and in Hollywood, she recalls those who helped
her gain her burning social consciousness – something that brought her into conflict
with the powers-that-be, most notably, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American
Activities Committee. During that hearing – and in the play – we hear her
famous line, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's
fashion.”
NOTE: Some of the pictured productions were performed at CTC where our Artistic Director, Carl Ritchie, was either producer, director, writer or performer.
The most recent are from productions of the Taconic Stage Company. All photos by Carl Ritchie except for the three he is in - with Chase Crosley - in
Driving Miss Daisy
- and Susan Fullerton - in
Private Lives
. Those were by Bob Sacks. Also, the photo of Leda Hodgson in
A Lady of Letters
is by Christopher Baines. Photos of
Private Lives
by Daniel Region. "
Housewives
" photo by Mike Molinski, Photographics Solution. Liz Richardson "spotlight" photo by Marvin Moore, Lillian photo by Michele Midori Fillion.
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Diedre Bollinger as Lillian Hellman
For tickets for the reprise performances this weekend (March 22-24, 2019) at the Whitney Center in Pittsfield, MA please visit TheWhit.org
Read Jeffrey Borak's rave review in the Berkshire Eagle here: Lillian Review
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