<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Saugerties’ Round the Bend Theatre will present
a staged reading of Margie Castleman’s “1,000 Feet” on Saturday February 25 at
7:30pm and Sunday February 26 at 2:00pm on Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla”
Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY.<br>
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In this unsettling new work, Laura is arrested for having an inappropriate
relationship with an underage female student and her life quickly unravels.
What will happen to her? Will she go to jail or plead guilty as a sex offender?
Is her only future one of unforgiving punishment? Sydnie Grosberg Ronga directs
a cast that includes Sharon Coughlan, Gillian Lopez, Darryl Mayhand, and Taylor
Steward.<br><br>
Margie Castleman’s career began as a dancer. She then segued into acting,
choreography, and now works as a playwright. Her three plays, “Closing the
Chandlery”, “Blend”, and “We Can Eat Love”, were all semi-finalists in the
O'Neill Theatre Conference, and LARK development. “We Can Eat Love” was
produced at Portland Stage (Studio Series), Maine (2019). Other production
credits include The Swim Meet, 78th Street Theatre Lab, SheWrites Festival, finalist
10-Minute Plays, Humana Festival, NBC daytime TV. She holds a BA in acting from
Bard College, and a MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College (Mac Wellman,
chair). She is a Lifetime member of The Dramatists Guild, currently developing
work with HOWL Playwrights (Rhinebeck, NY), and has been invited to join Honor
Roll, a national symposium for women playwrights.<br>
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Admission to the reading is by a suggested $10 donation at the door on the day
of performance, one half hour before curtain time. This reading of “1,000 Feet”
is presented as part of an ongoing collaboration between Round the Bend and
Bridge Street Theatre. For more information, visit <a href="http://roundthebendtheatre.org">roundthebendtheatre.org</a>
online.<br>
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<b>Performance Calendar: <br>
</b>Round the Bend presents<br>
A Staged Reading of<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1,000 FEET<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A New Play by Margie Castleman<br>
Saturday February 25 @ 7:30pm and Sunday February 26 @ 2:00pm<br>
Bridge Street Theatre’s “Priscilla” Mainstage<br>
44 West Bridge Street, Catskill, NY<br>
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<b>Tickets:<br>
</b>Admission is by donation ($10 suggested).<br>
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<i>Events at Bridge Street Theatre are supported in part by the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor of New York and the New
York State Legislature, and by public funds from the Greene County Legislature through
the Cultural Fund administered in Greene County by CREATE Council on the Arts.<br>
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