WordTheatre® Presents David Soul reading An Old Poet is Dying in Bolinas by Peter Orner

WORDTheatre is on a mission to connect people across the globe with compelling stories delivered through performances by well-known actors from film, television and theatre. These stories reflect the colorful, complicated, and fascinating world we live in. We celebrate the power of language. Words matter.

Actors David Soul, Ian Hart, Madeline Potter, Rhashan Stone, Emily Bruni, and Damien Molony, accompanied by violin virtuoso Lizzie Ball, illuminate Orner’s emotionally rich, stunning and deeply moving array of shorter-than-short stories. From California to Chicago and from Massachusetts to Southern Africa, Orner brilliantly captures the human experience through the cast of characters whom he brings to life in these singular and universally felt vignettes.

Full of wisdom, beauty, humour and surprises, Orner’s literary gems have been published in Granta, Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and McSweeney’s. His recent collection, Maggie Brown & Others, is a composite portrait of what it’s like to be a person in the world and the heaviness and lightness that makes up a life. It will be published by Little, Brown and Company this summer. The author will be present.

Since its inception in 2003, WordTheatre® has been giving voice to great writing in the U.S and the U.K. Founded by Cedering Fox and her U.K. producing partner, Kirsty Peart, this innovative, internationally esteemed nonprofit organization is dedicated to inspiring empathy, curiosity and conversation with its unique brand of powerful and entertaining performances, both live and recorded, of the world’s best contemporary literature. Esteemed authors, actors and musicians collaborate to inhabit and illuminate the texts of world-class authors. Audiences – from underserved students to sophisticated cultural enthusiasts – are brought together to share exquisitely crafted stories that remind us of what it is to be human.

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Produced and directed by WordTheatre® Artistic Director, Cedering Fox.

This event was held on June 9th, 2019 in London.