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Philadelphia Artists’ Collective Presents ’Tis Pity by John Ford March 28 - April 14, 2019 at Philadelphia Boys’ Choir hiladelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) continues its 2018 - 19 season with ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford. Jessica Bedford will direct a cast of thirteen actors – Monroe Barrick, Brandon Castillo, Trevor Fayle, Nathan Foley, Stephanie Hodge, Annette Kaplafka, John Lopes, Eric Mills, David Pica, Ebony Pullum,
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Philadelphia Artists’ Collective presents “’Tis Pity” by John Ford with actors Stephanie Hodge and Trevor Fayle at Philadelphia Boys’ Choir from March 28 - April 14, 2019. Photo/Wide Eyed Studios
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Amanda Jill Robinson, Abdul Sesay and Josh Totora. The show runs Thursday, March 28 through Sunday, April 14, 2019. Imagine, if you can, if Romeo & Juliet had been brother and sister. Their passion no less palpable, Giovanni and Annabella pursue their love in a world of Jacobean tragedy and decadence. Scandalizing and tantalizing audiences for over four centuries, this is a tale of desire writ large – and the price we are willing to pay for love. “’Tis Pity explores the messier side of man and the bifurcating effects of urban isolation; both within the chambers of the body (the carnal and the cerebral) and the chambers of a house (the bedroom and the banquet hall),” said director Jessica Bedford. Though Ford, a lawyer by trade, was far more influenced by Marlowe than Shakespeare, there is an undeniable parallel between the story of his young lovers – Giovanni and Annabella – and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But Ford holds the mirror up darkly and its most significant reSee Philadelphia Artists’ Collective Presents “’Tis Pity” page 11
University of Pennsylvania Professor Marci Hamilton will speak Thursday, April 11, 2019 at a free event hosted by The Freethought Society at the Ludington Library. he Freethought Society is hosting University of Pennsylvania Professor Marci Hamilton as the Thursday, April 11, 2019 speaker. Her speech, “The War Against Child Sex Abuse: Where We Are and What We Must Do,” takes place 7 p.m. at the Ludington Library located at 5 South Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA. Free and open to the public. Hamilton is the nation’s foremost expert on clergy sex abuse against children and child sex abuse statutes of limitation.
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The Culture of the Amazon on Display at Neumann University cury-developed, gold-gilded images eumann University is hostof Ese’Eja community members, ing an exhibit of photos and created by Jon Cox and Andrew artifacts that captures the Bale, draw attention to the mercharacter and culture of one of the cury pollution being cast upon one last remaining foraging Amazonof the world’s last remaining Amaian people. Entitled “The Ese’Eja zonian cultures and the unique People of the Amazon: Connected environment where they live. by a Thread,” the free exhibit runs until April 15 in the McNichol Art “The Ese’Eja People of the Gallery. Amazon: Connected by a Believing themselves to have been Thread” exhibit on display descended from the sky on a thread at Neumann University of cotton, the Ese’Eja live in three until April 15. communities along the Madre de Dios, Heath, and Tambopata rivers; The collection is made up of the nearest city is Puerto Maldonado platinum-palladium prints of the in Southeastern Peru. Ese’Eja oral Ese’ Eja people by Cox and Bale histories reveal their deep spirias well as numerous artifacts tual connection with the rainformade by the community. This exhibest. Many of the stories revolve it was brought to Neumann Univeraround the spirits of the forest, sity jointly by the Academic Affairs known in the Ese’Eja language as and Mission and Ministry departedósikiana. ments. Like many other indigenous peoAdmission is free. The McNichol Art Gallery is in the Thomas A. Bruder, Jr. ples in the Amazon, the Ese’Eja are affected by mercury that is being dumped into their environment as a byproduct of illegal gold mining. The mer- Life Center and is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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