Blaine playwright featured at UNE Gallery
“Oh Well,” a play by Blaine playwright, Linda Griffith, will be among the “Mainely Monologues” heard on Saturday, March 27, in conjunction with the third annual SWAN Day.
Griffith
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day is an international holiday that celebrates woman artists, taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March). Events are scheduled all over the world featuring women artists. Maine’s SWAN Day celebration will take place at the University of New England Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. The program is free to the public, with donations accepted to benefit the Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided during intermission.
Giffith’s work is a short but extremely demanding monologue that will be well-served by Portland actress Jackie Oliverti’s years of acting experience. The audience can expect “Oh Well” to bring to the stage the playwright’s trademark testing of the actor-audience relationship through the thoughts of an over-the-hill baton twirler who both humorously and threateningly tries to come to terms with her relationship with those before her.
A Fulbright Fellow in acting, founder of Philadelphia’s premier Wilma Theatre and two-time winner of the Maine Short Play Festival award, Griffith is also an accomplished fine art photographer, recently recognized by the Rose and Samuel Rudman Trust and Hansen Library for “Mars Hill: The Timeless Town.”
The long-term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning. SWAN Day is a grassroots effort that is being coordinated by The Fund for Women Artists through its Web site at www.WomenArts.Org. For more information about “Mainely Monologues,” contact Laura Emack at LKECPA@prexar.com or 567-3437. For venue-related questions, contact Anne Zill at 221-4499 or AZill@une.edu.
