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



















Mark Addy
David Ashton
Niall Buggy
Lindsay Duncan
Marcia Firesten
Alastair Mackenzie
Ben Miller
John Schwab
Amanda Seyfried
David Soul