From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO
Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT), in collaboration with Trinity Episcopal Church Toledo, presents a staged reading of “Winter Rain: Six Images of Thomas “ The play by Anthony Padovano is comprised of six monologues performed by six actors, each portraying Merton at different stages of his life.
The play will be staged on Saturday, March 25t at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, March 26th at 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 316 Adams St. (corner of St. Clair), Toledo.
The play begins in 1941 at a railway station as Merton prepares to travel to Gethsemane to join the monastery and concludes with a posthumous monologue after Merton’s untimely and mysterious death in Thailand in 1968.
Thomas Merton was a huge jazz aficionado and to complement the performance local musician and Trinity singer, Tajj Crowder, will perform a prelude of jazz music on the piano with jazz interludes between each of the six scenes.
The six actors portraying Thomas Merton will be Barbara Barkan, Charles Crockett, Angie Gresko, Matt Kizaur, Mark Owen, and Phil Skeldon.
The reading will be directed by ACT’s co-founder Jeffrey Albright.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at www.act419.org or at the
door beginning one hour before each performance.
