Lively Arts, Aurora Forum events to feature the West Coast premiere of L.A. Theatre Works' radio play RFK: The Journey to Justice
L.A. Theatre Works will take the stage at Stanford this week. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Stanford's Pigott Theater, the cast of their radio play RFK: The Journey to Justice will participate in a discussion hosted by the Aurora Forum's Mark Gonnerman as part of the Art + Invention series. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 8 p. m. in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, the company will perform the West Coast premiere of the play.
BY ELAINE RAY
L.A. Theatre Works will take the stage at Stanford for performances and discussions this week. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Stanford's Pigott Theater, the cast of their radio play RFK: The Journey to Justice will participate in a discussion hosted by the Aurora Forum's Mark Gonnerman as part of the Art + Invention series. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, the company will perform the West Coast premiere of the play.
Read from the stage with sound effects created live as in the "Golden Age of Radio," the docudrama by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin chronicles Robert F. Kennedy's personal and political journey at the cusp of the civil rights movement. A post-performance discussion with the cast immediately follows the Wednesday night performance. The company also will perform a special matinee on campus for local schoolchildren earlier that day.
Directed by John Rubinstein, the production will feature stage and screen actors Henry Clarke as RFK, Kevin Daniels as Martin Luther King, Lynn Wactor as Coretta Scott King and Philip Casnoff as John F. Kennedy. RFK: The Journey to Justice was co-commissioned by Lively Arts in honor of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation with generous support from Van and Eddi Van Auken.
"When we received the offer to create an original L. A. Theatre Works docudrama from four of our outstanding and longtime presenters, we were elated and then challenged by the formidable task of choosing just the right subject," says Susan Lowenberg, founder and producing director of the company. "Despite the many ideas offered by our staff and the writers and academics we consulted, one subject kept coming back to me, perhaps because it also haunted me."
The Art + Invention program is free and open to the public. Tickets for the Wednesday evening performance are $34 to $38 for adults and $10 for Stanford students. Half-price tickets are available for young people age 18 and under, and discounts are available for groups and non-Stanford students. Contact the Stanford Ticket Office at (650) 725-ARTS (2787) or visit http://livelyarts.stanford.edu.
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