Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 19, 2004|Volume 32, Number 22

English faculty to present
staged reading of 'Pentecost'

In what has become an annual tradition, Yale faculty members will step into the spotlight this month for a staged reading sponsored by the English department.

This year, the faculty members will present "Pentecost" by Stewart Parker at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 28, in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

The play was chosen to complement the center's current exhibition of work by Pop artist Richard Hamilton and his interest in the politics of Northern Ireland, according to Murray Biggs, associate professor (adjunct) of English and theater studies, who will direct the performance.

Set in Belfast in 1974, the play "brings to life the modern 'Troubles' through the clash of Catholics and Protestants in a run-down house where the 'domestic' is also a metaphor of the larger civil war," explains Biggs.

The Irish actor Stephen Rea, who appeared in the premiere of "Pentecost" in 1987, described the playwright as "the first Northerner to produce ... a vision of a harmonious possibility on the other side of violence."

The faculty members who will be featured in "Pentecost" are: Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English; Laura King, lecturer in theater studies and dean of Trumbull College; David Quint, the George M. Bodman Professor of English and professor of comparative literature; Nicole Rice, assistant professor of English; and John Rogers, professor of English and master of Berkeley College. They will be joined by English major Daniel Hammon '05 as the narrator.

The performance of "Pentecost," which will last approximately two hours, is free and open to the public.

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