The Actors’ Ensemble Presents
MRS. RIPLEY’S TRIP and ROCKABY
Featuring Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan
December 14, 2019, 7 pm
138 West 15th Street (between 6th and 7th avenues)
Tickets: $20. Click here to purchase tickets in advance.
Mrs. Ripley’s Trip was taken from Main Traveled Roads, a collection of stories, by Hamlin Garland. Mrs. Ripley and her husband Ethan live in a poor little shanty that is set like a chicken trap on the vast Iowa prairie in the 19th century. Unbeknownst to her husband, Mrs. Ripley is planning to return to her childhood home in “Yaark state.” This charming story highlights life on the prairie and the characters who inhabit it.
“What could be just another story theatre event becomes an epic of emotions played for all its possible values.” ~ The Independent, June 2000
A staged reading of Samuel Beckett’s short play Rockaby with Fern Sloan and music by Gary Grundei, begins an exploration into the world of Beckett, with an addition of the piano interwoven as an accompaniment into this meditation on life and dying.
Fern Sloan has been an actor for 40 years, is the co-artistic director of The Actors’ Ensemble, and currently on the faculty of MICHA (the Michael Chekhov Association) and the Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY.
Ted Pugh has been a theatre professional since 1963, seen on and off Broadway, co-founder of The Actors’ Ensemble, and is on the faculty of the Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY.
The Actors’ Ensemble’s mission is to honor and celebrate the heart of the theatre experience, which is in the hands of the actor, utilizing the acting method of Michael Chekhov, who was inspired by Rudolf Steiner. actorsensemble.org, michaelchkhovschool.org