Erring Star Theatre Company presents Emily Atkinson’s 'Act of Contrition'
Production Dates: April 7 2017—April 8 2017
Opening Night: April 7, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Event: Act of Contrition by Emily Atkinson Directed by Emily Atkinson
When: April 7-8, 2017 at 7:30, House opens at 7:15, There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.
Venue: Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063
Erring Star Theatre Company embarks on its first production for a developmental staging of Emily Atkinson’s Act of Contrition, supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. It is 1593, and Kit Marlowe--playmaker, poet, spy--is dead. So what is he doing in what looks like Will Shakespeare's bedroom? This is a story about love, about grief, about repentance; about what it means to sell your soul before you know it's real; about memory, creation, poetry and forgiveness in the midst of a world dictated by fear, lies, and harsh politics. Combining sharp wit and an ironic sensibility with an evocative portrait of loss and desire, Atkinson’s production, as much a love story as a spy story, enthralls the audience in the vivid, dangerous world of Elizabethan England, in all its violence and brutal glory.