Vincent Dowling Performance to Benefit the Literacy Network
Famed actor and director Vincent Dowling will give a performance of his one-man show, "A WILDE HOUR WITH VINCENT: Poems, comments, and scenes from the work of Vincent Dowling and Oscar Wilde," at the Lee Library on Saturday, December 5 at 1 p.m. The performance will be a benefit for the Literacy Network of South Berkshire. Dowling will be acting scenes from Wilde's and his own plays, poems and other publications. Both Dowling and Wilde were born in Dublin, and each made enormous contributions to the theater. In the Berkshires, Dowling is best known for his association with the Miniature Theatre of Chester, which he founded in 1990 (and is now known as the Chester Theatre Company). He is a Lifetime Associate Director of The Abbey Theatre, the national theatre of Ireland, where he worked as an actor and director from 1953 to 1976. From 1976 through 1984, he was Artistic and Producing Director of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, where he directed, produced or acted in Shakespeare and other classical works. Dowling's benefit performance at the Lee Library promises to be amusing, provocative, compelling, and utterly fascinating: in other words, all the things we associate with Oscar Wilde and his latter-day interpreter, Vincent Dowling. Admission is free, but all proceeds from a free-will offering will benefit the Literacy Network, which provides free, one-on-one tutoring to about 120 adult students in the southern part of Berkshire County. Event Details: A WILDE HOUR WITH VINCENT Featuring Vincent Dowling J. Peter Scolforo Gallery at the Lee Library 100 Main Street, Lee, Massachusetts 1 p.m., Saturday, December 5, 2009.
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