Whidbey Island Center for the Arts Presents ZELDA, 5/28

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, is proud to present Zelda in its newest series, Fast and Furious / Down and Dirty, on May 28, 2011 at 7.30pm.

Denise Paulette plays Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, in William Luce's one-woman play. 

"Zelda possessed a brilliant, schizophrenic mind. She was exciting, original, witty, talented, and tormented. And her life was not all tragedy. That was the public cliché, the legend not the reality. Even though she was confined to institutions, her dignity held and there was a kind of heroism in her. No self-pity, no wistful yearnings for lost Utopias. She was a lady with pride and guts." -- William Luce ??According to her granddaughter, Eleanor, Zelda's life was complex and compelling. Her aspiration to independence and creativity-expressed in dance, in writing and especially in painting -- and her agreement to subordinate her claim to her own autobiographical material to her husband, have made her almost a cult figure in the feminist movement. Zelda's long battle with mental illness makes her story even more poignant.

"Fast and Furious" (F2D2) is a new program that supports the evolution of projects and collaborations not possible under the constraints of our Main Stage programming.

Tickets are $10, with proceeds to fund the lighting and sound equipment needed to finish Zech Hall, are available from  www.WICAonline.com or 360.221.8268 - 800/638.7631.

 

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