On the Verge,
or the Geography of Yearning
by Eric Overmyer
A Play Reading by the OLLI Players
under the direction of Jeannie Marlin Woods
Two shows!
Saturday, May 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA
On the Verge is the story of three fiercely independent lady explorers who set out from America in 1888 in search of the farthest, most unknown spot on the globe, terra incognita. As their vocabulary begins to change and as they find arcane objects in their path, they realize that they have stumbled into a time warp. On the Verge has been described as a “heady comedy [that] is a fountain of language—alliterative, assonant, hyperbolic and onomatopoetic. The vertiginous Victorian adventure sends three prototypical women explorers through the African ice cap and Arctic desert of the author’s global imagination.”
The cast includes: Karen Erickson, Amanda Schenker, Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Adrian Acala, Stephen Goodman, and Dan Woods.
Free and open to all, but pre-registration is requested.
This event is supported through the generous philanthropy of Nancy and Michael Vale, whose bequest established the Michael and Nancy Vale Performing Arts Fund at OLLI at Berkshire Community College. This endowed fund supports theater-based OLLI programming.