Spoon River Apology

  • June 28 - 29, 2025

  • Mescal Hornbeck Community Center

    56 Rock City Road
    Woodstock, New York 12498
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Description

PAW Presents a Satirical Reading:

 

Written in 1916 by the poet Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology was a book-length series of poetic monologues that set the record straight about life in small town America being idyllic, virtuous and uncorrupted.  It became one of the hits of the 20th century. Set in a cemetery, the characters speak from the grave about their and others' lives on earth. It was banned in Masters' hometown in Illinois because it was too clearly about particular people there.

 

Noting that little has changed in the ensuing 109 years, Mikhail Horowitz and Performing Arts of Woodstock present another narrative, Spoon River Apology, about an artsy-craftsy town in the Catskills.

 

Shelley Wyant, fresh from directing PAW's The Fiick, will lead a group of eight talented actors as they bring to life this parodic homage to the Edgar Lee Masters classic.


Readers:  Lori Wilner, Nicole Quinn, Taylor Steward,  Adele Calcavecchio, David Smilow, Andrew Joffe, Hank Neimark, Gilles Malkine.

All seats $15

 

Date & Time

Jun 28 - 29, 2025

Venue Details

Mescal Hornbeck Community Center

56 Rock City Road
Woodstock, New York 12498 Mescal Hornbeck Community Center
Performing Arts of Woodstock

Performing Arts of Woodstock is a not-for-profit year-round local theater organization presenting new and established plays of quality since 1964, when it was founded by Eda Crist and Edie LeFever.
PAW is the oldest, continuously running theater organization in the history of Woodstock!

Now in its 61st season, Performing Arts of Woodstock has been mounting quality productions of both new and classic plays — artistically challenging plays such as True West, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Dresser, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Twelfth Night, Breaking the Code, Endgame, to name just a few from the last several years.
 

Performing Arts of Woodstock Board of Directors:

Adele Calcavecchio, President
Marcia Panza, Vice-President
Arlene Adams, Secretary
Jonathan Delson, Treasurer
Joe Bongiorno
Bethany Goldpaugh-Brown
Richard Ralff
David Smilow
Geneva Turner
and Edie LeFever, Board Member Emirita