"Fatal Friendship" (1698)
Fri, Nov 08
|New Perspectives Theatre Company
"Fatal Friendship" written in 1698 by Catherine Trotter. This is part of a series of staged readings of plays by women, written over ten centuries. The aim is to restore women playwrights place in the history of theatre, by reminding us that they exist and empowering us to build on their success.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
New Perspectives Theatre Company, 456 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018, USA
About the event
Directed by Melody Brooks; Dramaturgy by Lynn Marie Macy Friday, November 8, 2019, 7:00pm New Perspectives Studio 458 West 37th Street @10th Avenue
Doors open at 6:45pm for a 7:00pm start with The Play in Context Introduction, which situates the script in its historical time and place, followed by the reading and a post-performance Q&A with refreshments.
Admission is by Donation ($10 suggested). R.S.V.P. to OnHerShouldersReservations@gmail.com.
CATHERINE TROTTER (1689-1749), was a precocious and largely self-educated young woman, who had her first novel (The Adventures of a Young Lady, later retitled Olinda's Adventures) published anonymously in 1693, when she was only 14 years old. She became a popular playwright while still under the age of 20, starting in 1695 with Agnes de Castro, staged at the Theatre Royal and printed in the following year with a dedication to the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. In 1698, her second tragedy and arguably…