
"WordTheatre is a great, freewheeling, passionately engaged interpreter of contemporary short fiction. Whereas other such enterprises are content to cherry pick a few classics in a predictable setting, WordTheatre finds work that can bring about great performances in its constituency of first-rate performers, always in search of the ineffable and the uncanny that are at the heart of the very best in world literature. Their ambition is for the new, the challenging, and the emotionally rich. In my own case, I have never heard such wonderful and illuminated performances of my own work." - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Novel Beginnings III
September 30, 2007 @ MBar
James Franco |
Rachel Miner |
Natalija Nogulich |
Joel Polis |
Miguel Sandoval |
The opening pages of new novels by new and established writers!*
Doors opened at 6pm for dinner. Readings at 7.
Authors (all in attendance except for Amy Bloom):
Amy Bloom, Ron Carlson, Helena Kriel, Anna Lefler, Michael Peterson, Lisa Rosenbaum, Robert Rotstein and Mary Yukari Waters.
Performers:
James Franco, Miguel Sandoval, Joel Polis, Jeff Elam, Jeanne Sakata, Natalija Nogulich, Anna Lefler, Rachel Miner
Produced and Directed by: Cedering Fox
Produced and Edited by: Lisa Doctor