Kissing With Tongues: Tales of Love and Death
October 22, 2007 @ Cafe des Paris
 Mark Addy |
 David Ashton |
 Niall Buggy |
 Lindsay Duncan |
 Marcia Firesten |
 Alastair Mackenzie |
 Ben Miller |
 John Schwab |
 Amanda Seyfried |
 David Soul |
an evening of short story readings to benefit* The TreeHouse Appeal "Ambitious about Autism" to raise funds for a permanent home for a National Centre for
Autism Education in the U.K.. Treehouse aims to transform through
education the lives of children with autism and the lives of their
families. It was founded by a group of parents of autistic children,
among them, Nick Hornby.
Introduction by Dr. Ian Wylie, Chief Executive of TreeHouse
- Mark Addy (The Full Monty) read an introduction by Nick Hornby
- Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Mamma Mia!) read "The Kiss" by Pamela Painter
- Alastair Mackenzie (Monarch of the Glen) read "A Happy Dream" by Steve Almond;
- Lindsay Duncan (Under the Tuscan Sun, Rome) read "Extra Geography" by Rose Tremain;
- Niall Buggy (Translations on Broadway, Casanova) read "Tomorrow's Bird" by Ian Frazier;
- Ben Miller (Johnny English, Primeval) and Marcia Firesten (CSI-NY, Laughter on the 23rd Floor on the West End) read "The Woman at the Window" by James Lasdun together;
- John Schwab (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare) will read "Stay" by David Schuman;
- David Soul (Starsky and Hutch) read "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff;
- David Ashton (The Last King of Scotland) read his original story, "Crack".
Directed by Cedering Fox