DANCE OF THE SEVEN HEADED MOUSE Author Carole Gaunt To Appear At Drama Book Shop Today 7/1

Carole Gaunt, author of the new hit Off-Broadway play Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse, will lead a discussion and book signing Today, July 1 at 5 pm at the Drama Book Shop, 240 West 40th Street. Gaunt will be signing copies of her best-selling memoir Hungry Hill.

Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse opened officially on June 23rd at The Beckett at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, to excellent reviews led by Bloomberg's John Simon who called the play "Genuinely touching." The limited engagement is set through July 25th. Under the direction of Christopher McElroen, the cast includes Joseph Adams, Laura Bonarrigo, Molly Ephraim, Lauren Currie Lewis, and Maya Simkowitz.

In Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse, the fault lines are exposed when a seemingly picture-perfect Fifth Avenue family faces the harshest of realities - the death of their daughter. A father turns to work to drown his sorrow, while his wife drifts into a haze of pills and booze. When their surviving child Avril inexplicably drops out of her prestigious New England boarding school, her roommate Juliana arrives for a visit, determined to lure her back. Acting as a catalyst and witness, Juliana exposes the gaping cracks in the family's Upper East Side façade, forcing its three surviving members to engage with one another and the tragedy they share. .

Carole Gaunt is the author of Hungry Hill - A Memoir (University of Massachusetts Press June 2007) and received the inaugural Anne Bancroft Memorial Memoir Writing award from the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference. Her book has been listed in the 2008 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries and was featured on CSPAN's "Book TV" with the theme "Women with Gumption." A graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute, she was an associate producer for the South African doo-wop musical, Kat and the Kings, which ran on Broadway for 180 performances. A former board member of the Alcoholism Council of New York, she often writes about the effects of parental addiction on the children in the family. Also, she has appeared as an actor on Lifetime Television.

Dance Of The Seven Headed Mouse has scenic design by Troy Hourie, costume design by Victoria Gaunt, lighting design by D.M. Wood, sound design by Daniel Erdberg, and prop design by Morgan Eckert.

Performances are Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. The Beckett at Theatre Row is located at 410 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.) Tickets are available through TicketCentral.com 212-279-4200.

 

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