STAGED READING OF
"DE VIDRIO Y DE MADERA" BY MAGDA MARTINEZ
APRIL 9, 7:30 P.M.
CAPE MAY—A staged reading of Philadelphia playwright Magda Martinez’s work in progress, De Vidrio y de Madera (Of Glass and Of Wood), will be presented on Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Cape May Stage, on Lafayette at Bank Street in Cape May. A discussion with the playwright will follow. Admission is free. The play explores the struggle of two cousins to deal with issues of family and personal identity as they cope with their grandmother’s passing.
Martinez, a published poet, performer and produced playwright, is in Cape May as part of the Cultural Crossroads Project, a residency funded by the Artists & Communities Program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation of Baltimore, MD, and the Center for Community Arts (CCA). Along with Philadelphia-based poet/performer Julia Lopez, in the fall she gave a poetry reading as part of the Cape May County Art League’s Poetry Series at the Prickly Pear Cottage Gallery. In addition, the residency included several weeks with eighty middle school students at Wildwood Junior High School and the Richard M. Teitelman School in Lower Township. Guided by Martinez, the students wrote short plays based on their families’ histories. The plays were rehearsed by Martinez and Steve Bacher, CCA’s Executive Director, and performed both in-school and for the community.
Martinez is a recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a member of the board of the Bartol Foundation. She received the Leeway Foundation's Windows of Opportunity Grant in 2001 for the development and staged reading of "Converse Sneakers", which was performed in Denver with "El Centro Su Teatro".
The reading is co-sponsored by Cape May Stage and the Center for Community Arts, and is made possible in part by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.
For further information call 884-7525.
Martinez, a published poet, performer and produced playwright, is in Cape May as part of the Cultural Crossroads Project, a residency funded by the Artists & Communities Program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation of Baltimore, MD, and the Center for Community Arts (CCA). Along with Philadelphia-based poet/performer Julia Lopez, in the fall she gave a poetry reading as part of the Cape May County Art League’s Poetry Series at the Prickly Pear Cottage Gallery. In addition, the residency included several weeks with eighty middle school students at Wildwood Junior High School and the Richard M. Teitelman School in Lower Township. Guided by Martinez, the students wrote short plays based on their families’ histories. The plays were rehearsed by Martinez and Steve Bacher, CCA’s Executive Director, and performed both in-school and for the community.
Martinez is a recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a member of the board of the Bartol Foundation. She received the Leeway Foundation's Windows of Opportunity Grant in 2001 for the development and staged reading of "Converse Sneakers", which was performed in Denver with "El Centro Su Teatro".
The reading is co-sponsored by Cape May Stage and the Center for Community Arts, and is made possible in part by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.
For further information call 884-7525.
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