<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">Picture this: a trashy NYC apartment, and a
dress that's maybe a bit too daring. A New Year's Eve bash where your latest
crush is the only familiar face in the room. Every glance, every laugh, every
drink could potentially lead to either your own unique "Meet Cute" or
possibly a brutal rejection. Which way will things go? That’s the dilemma
facing writer/performer Amy Crossman in her solo show “The Great Divide” being
presented at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre May 15-17 as part of BST’s 2024
SoloFest.<br>
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This darkly comic play, brilliantly directed by Scott Ebersold, was borne out
of a situation the playwright found herself in several years ago. “At that
time, I felt like my experience of grief was far messier and more complicated –
and dare I say ugly – than was culturally or socially acceptable, and I felt
really isolated and alone. There were a lot of ‘shoulds’ that were floating
through the air back then for me, and I wanted to write a play that gave voice
to the non-linear and messy experience I was having. The show’s about a young
woman navigating all that, and also like, navigating love. There’s a lot of
love in this play. Or a lot of searching for it, at least.”<br>
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What can you do to ease the pain when a relationship you hoped would last
forever fades away and then abruptly – ends? Alternately hysterically funny,
heartbreaking, and totally relatable, Amy Crossman’s one-woman play is a
comedic exploration of what it means to love, to have your heart broken, and then
to make a fresh start after the storm.<br>
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“The Great Divide” will be presented for three performances only – Friday March
15 and Saturday March 16 at 7:30pm and Sunday March 17 at 2:00pm. Bridge Street
Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill, NY. Advance tickets
for all performances can be purchased online at
<a href="http://bridgest.org/24solofest3-tickets/">bridgest.org/24solofest3-tickets/</a> or at the door (subject to availability)
one-half hour before each performance. General Admission price is $25 or $10
for Students ages 18 and under.<br>
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>From the birth of love to its shattering loss, “The Great Divide” is a wild
roller coaster ride you won’t want to miss. Visit <a href="http://bridgest.org/solofest-2024/">bridgest.org/solofest-2024/</a>
for more information about this and all the other shows in this year’s Bridge
Street Theatre SoloFest.<br>
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<b>Performance Calendar: <br>
</b>Bridge Street Theatre presents<br>
Show #3 in BST’s 2024 SoloFest<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">THE GREAT DIVIDE <br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Written and performed by Amy Crossman</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Directed by Scott Ebersold<br>
Three Performances Only!</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Friday March 15 @ 7:30pm<br>
Saturday March 16 @ 7:30pm<br>
Sunday March 17 @ 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>General Admission $25, Students ages 18 and under $10<br>
Tickets available in advance online at <a href="https://bridgest.org/24solofest3-tickets/">https://bridgest.org/24solofest3-tickets/</a>
or at the door (on a space available basis) one-half hour before each
performance<br>
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About the Artists:<br>
Amy Crossman</b> <i>(writer/performer) </i>is an AEA actor, teaching artist,
playwright, and sometimes clown. As an actor, she’s worked with the Hudson
Valley Shakespeare Festival, Boomerang Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Chenango River Theatre,
among other places. As a teacher, she’s taught at HVSF, PSF, Barrington Stage
Company, Queens Theatre, Hangar Theatre, and Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as
privately. She’s studied with a lot of kind and funny people including Judy
Gold, Chris Bayes, Karl Bury, and Mark H. Dold. She loves Diet Coke, Harry
Potter, and therapy.<br>
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<b>Scott Ebersold </b><i>(Director)</i> is a New York-based director of theatre
who specializes in new plays, musicals, and reinventing classics. He was the
director of the Off-Broadway premier of Max Vernon’s “The View UpStairs” which
was nominated for the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for best new
musical, and an AUDELCO Award for best director. Other credits include Dan
Marshall, Becca Blackmore, and Julian Blackmore’s “The Peculiar Tale of the
Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians” (Goodspeed Opera
House); Briandaniel Oglesby’s “Small Steps” (Portland Center Stage); Bobby
Cronin and Crystal Skillman’s “Concrete Jungle” (DDM Productions); Jordan
Seavey’s “Children At Play” (Collaboration Town); “Explorers Concert” (NYMF);
Kari Bentley-Quinn’s “Paper Cranes”; Andrew Lippa’s “Wild Party” (Post
Theatre); Joshua Conkel’s “America You Kill Me”; Alejandro Morales’s “the
silent concerto” (FringeNYC Best Director); and “expat/inferno” (FringeNYC Best
Production). He was an Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company, a Literary
Associate at Tectonic Theatre, and the founder of Packawallop Productions. MFA
Columbia University.</span></p><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"><br></span></p><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">Photo Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum<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.</i></span></p></div>