October 22, 2007 @ Cafe des Paris

Mark Addy	David Ashton
Niall Buggy	Lindsay Duncan
Marcia Firesten	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

www.treehouse.org.uk