East Lynne Theater Co. Announces Benefit Performance

ZELDA & SCOTT: A Life Affair is a new play by Mark Edward Lang, based on over twenty years of letters between Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Their rich, poignant, playful, thoughtful and varied correspondence- from passionate love letters to heated jealous screeds- comes to life in this staged-reading performance starring real-life married couple Alison J. Murphy and actor-playwright Mark Edward Lang. The duo previously played in their two-hander LUNT AND FONTANNE: The Celestials of Broadway at FringeNYC in 2016, also written by Lang.

Murphy and Lang live in New York, but have a strong connection to their friends and colleagues at Cape May New Jersey's East Lynne Theater Company (ELTC). The couple met there in 2001, and have performed there many times since then, up to and including last summer's production of Eugene O'Neill's AH, WILDERNESS! and a one night performance of this play. They were inspired to bring ZELDA & SCOTT to New York as a benefit, to help out ELTC after a recent tragic fire to the company's home base (cast house and office).

Using their own words, ZELDA & SCOTT: A Life Affair celebrates the splendor of the Fitzgeralds' talent, their many challenges- and the depths of their tragic love for one another. Presented by Special Arrangement with WME.

About Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Married for twenty years, they were one of the most provocative- and talented- literary couples of the Twentieth Century. Scott wrote 5 novels (notably The Great Gatsby), 1 stage play (The Vegetable, a political comedy, which flopped), multiple screenplays (1 was produced: Three Comrades) and 170 short stories (many for the Saturday Evening Post). Zelda's artistic endeavors include a semi-autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz, a play entitled Scandalabra, as well as numerous magazine articles, short stories and paintings. She was also a trained ballet dancer. At the time of Scott's death of a heart attack in 1940, he was penniless and out of favor with the reading public. But Zelda wrote to their daughter in 1944 that "Daddy was the key-note and prophet of his generation, and deserves remembrance as such..." And time has proven that she was right. Zelda died in a tragic hospital fire in 1948.

TICKETS: SUGGESTED MINIMUM DONATION: $10 per person at the door; receipts will be available. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL BENEFIT THE NONPROFIT EAST LYNNE THEATER COMPANY IN THE WAKE OF THEIR RECENT FIRE.

More info and RSVP at: www.eltc-benefit-nyc.eventbrite.com
Facebook Event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/756370964695124/

Running time: 80 minutes. There will be a brief Q&A with the cast and refreshments afterward.

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