[Monterey, CA]—The Listening Place Reader's Theater is performing selected poems from Edgar Lee Masters renowned Spoon River Anthology on Sunday, March 22 and Sunday, March 29 at 1:30 pm in the drawing room at Monterey Museum of Art La Mirada. The event is free with Museum admission, and free to MMA Members.
Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology has been acclaimed as one of the most popular books of American poetry and was an immediate commercial success when first published in 1915. Unconventional in both style and content, it shattered the myths of small town American life, weaving a rich tapestry of village life, free of facades, raw, immediate and grippingly alive Spoon River Anthology is a collection of unusual, short, free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Master's home town. It is said that Masters wove a thread of partial reality through the anthology. Many of the characters can be identified with former residents of Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois, where Master's had spent much of his childhood.
An increasingly popular way to present literature in dramatic form, reader’s theater uses no stage sets, costumes or memorization. The readers use scripts openly in performance, which are given in character to evoke the impact of the original work. This performance will feature six readers from the Monterey and Salinas. They are: Roo Hornady, Susan Keenan, Nan Williams, Philip Pearce, Patrick O. Dowd and Robert Colter. For more information on The Listening Place Reader’s Theater, please contact Linda Hancock at 831.424.6645.
About The Monterey Museum of Art
The Monterey Museum of Art is devoted to the art of California, photography, contemporary art and Asian art. The Museum was established in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of the Arts and has a permanent collection of 14,000 objects, which includes paintings, photographs, works on paper, Asian art and significant holdings of California artists such as Armin Hansen, William F. Ritschel, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. The Monterey Museum of Art has two locations: 559 Pacific Street and 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, CA, 93940. The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm and Sunday 1 to 4 pm. Admission: $5 general, $2.50 student and military. Museum members and children under 12 are free. For more information, please visit www.montereyart.org or call 831.372.5477.
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