Reading Of David Lavine's Poking Kitty Purple Held At Solas Bar 12/12

The Alumni Association of The American Repertory Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre Institute at Harvard University will present a reading of David Lavine's "Poking Kitty Purple".

Join us for a reading of David Lavine's "Poking Kitty Purple" which features ART alums Danielle Delgado, Rebecca West, Adam Kern, Kunal Prasad, and Jason Beaubien.

Monday, December 12 at 7:00 PM

Solas Bar @ 232 East 9th Street

Free admission. No reservations necessary. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. If possible, we kindly ask that you patronize the bar with 1-2 drinks, non-alcoholic or otherwise.

Discussion to follow.

POKING KITTY PURPLE
Caroline Durieux is a single mother, a voracious reader of romance novels, a former actress with a bygone record of happy housewife commercials, and an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe. When she wakes to a particular swimming pool crisis (complete encrustation after late-night mischief involving grape Pop Rocks) and the pool boy on call is far from her usual fare, all normalcy, as it were, unravels. But she may be this pool boy’s muse and he her chance for escape. Under the haze of the New Age awakening in Southern California in 1987, a single day's journey in the Durieux household is outrageous, disturbing and ultimately electrifying.

David Lavine has had two dozen or so productions in New York and regionally (CA, NJ, PA, OH, FL) since 1995. Readings: New York Theatre Workshop, Naked Angels, Abingdon Theatre Company, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Recognition: "The Ocean All Around Us," semifinalist, 2010 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; "Poking Kitty Purple," finalist, 2008 O’Neill; "Smugglers Three," Heidi Award, Best Original Short. Publication: "4 Plays by David Lavine," a collection of one-acts published by Original Works; monologues included in Smith and Kraus’s "The Ultimate Audition Book, Vol. 4: 222 Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under."