[Capdist-announce] The Countess to be first production at Ghent PLayhouse's 38th Season

[Judy Staber]

THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE
Town Hall Place (Off Route 66)
Ghent, New York 
“Best Community Theatre in the Capital Region” Metroland, 2012
 
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THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES ITS OPENING PRODUCTION FOR THEIR 38TH SEASON: THE COUNTESS BY GREGORY MURPHY.
 
For their opening production of the 38th season, The Ghent Playhouse will present
“The Countess” by Gregory Murphy. The play opens on Friday, October 12th and runs through Sunday, October 28th. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.  Kate McCready Gulliver is directing the production
 
Based on one of the most notorious scandals of Victorian England, The Countess is a psychological drama of madness, cruelty, and obsession, and perhaps one of the greatest love stories of all times. In 1853, well-known art critic John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and his friend and protégé, the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, depart in high spirits for the Scottish Highlands. Millais plans to paint a portrait of his mentor, whom he idolizes. When they return to London four months later, Millais’s hatred for Ruskin is exceeded only by his passion for the beautiful, young Mrs. Ruskin. The terrible truth at the heart of the Ruskin marriage, which is gradually revealed through the persistence of Effie’s friend Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, rocks London society and forever changes the lives of Millais and the Ruskins.
 
The cast members for The Countess, currently in rehearsal, are: Todd Hamilton as John Ruskin, Anya Krawcheck as Effie Ruskin, Cathy Lee-Visscher as Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, and Michael Meier as John Everett Millais. Ruskin’s parents are Glenn Barrett as John Ruskin, Sr. and Lael Locke as his wife Margaret. Tracy Trimm rounds out the cast as their servant Crawley.
 
Gregory Murphy is a playwright and novelist with ties to Columbia County. The Countess, his first play, ran Off-Broadway for two years and was produced in London's West End. His first novel, Incognito, was just published by Penguin Books.  He recently completed a second play, Household Words, about Charles Dickens and is at work on a second novel, Madison Square.  He currently lives in New York City with his wife, theater director Ludovica Villar-Hauser.   
 
Production staff are Paul Leyden, producer; Kate Delp Gray, assistant director and stage manager; Bill Camp, set and lighting designer; Joanne Maurer, costume designer; Jack Steffek, set construction; Marion Cimini, props; and Max Lagonia, light and sound operator.
 
Tickets are $18 each and $15 for Friends of the Playhouse.  For further information about tickets and future productions please go to the website: www.ghentplayhouse.org or call the theatre at 518-392-6264.
 
 
 
Judy Staber
Old Chatham, NY 12136-0072
518-794-9091
pantoloon at fairpoint.net 
www.jstaber.com/

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