Celebrated actor Karen Eterovich brings her original performance as Jane Austen to The New York Society Library for one performance only.
The work will be presented on Saturday, December 12, at 2:00 p.m. Light seasonal refreshments will be served.
The New York Society Library is located at 53 East 79th Street (just east of Madison Avenue; 6 train to 77th Street).
Jane Austen never traveled more than 200 miles from the town of her birth. She never married, nor left her family. Her novels were not published under her name while she lived. Yet they testify to a person of great wit, insight, and depth. Using original text woven with excerpts from Austen's novels, letters, and juvenilia, together with suitable speech, period movement, costume, and music, Cheer from Chawton reveals the humor, affection, character, and depth of a dependent "old maid" who write, with little fame or remuneration, some of the greatest novels in the English language. The setting is Chawton Great House, the home of Austen's brother, where the family have gathered for a "theatrical," like the one in Mansfield Park, and instead urge Jane to share her pointed observations on them, their friends, suitors, and society, as well as her own hilarious early efforts as an author.
A member of Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, Karen Eterovich has won international acclaim with her play Love Arm'd: Aphra Behn and Her Pen, which she has performed in over thirty states across American and throughout Europe. She is the writer/performer of Cheer From Chawton and is recognized as an authority on acting in Restoration literature.
Ticket information is available at www.nysoclib.org/notes/2009/time_being2009.html.
The New York Society Library was founded in 1754, and is the city's oldest library. In the eighteenth century, an organization labeled "Society" meant that it was open to all--availabile to everyone throughout society. The library is open to all for reading, reference, and selected events, with circulation and other services by subscription.
The beautiful landmarked building dates from 1917, and includes reading rooms, spaces for study, stacks, and an exhibition gallery. The library has approximately 275,000 volumes., and hosts a variety of special events, reading groups, workshops, as well as the New York City Book Awards.
More information on the Library: www.nysoclib.org.
More information on Karen Eterovich: www.lovearmd.com.
