An Evening With Esopus October 24, 2006

Cultural journal Esopus will host an evening of readings and live music by past and present contributors. Free admission.

n conjunction with the release of its seventh issue, the biannual non-profit arts magazine Esopus organizes an evening of readings and live music by past and present contributors. The evening’s theme--creative collaboration--is approached from four different angles by the four collaborating groups. For this event, film production designer Therese Deprez (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Dark Water) and cinematographer Ellen Kuras (I Shot Andy Warhol, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), who have collaborated on three films, discuss the process of working together to create the look and tone of a feature film. Christopher Durang stages and co-performs a reading of a short parody of Medea that he co-wrote with Wendy Wasserstein in the late 1990’s. Finally, in "Autographs," an audio-visual presentation recorded exclusively for this event, actor/filmmaker Jennifer Jason Leigh reads a series of short poems by Vincent Katz, accompanied by projections of never-before-seen drawings by his father, artist Alex Katz. (The entire suite of 12 drawings and poems is published in Esopus 7). The evening ends with a performance by Charles Bissell and Kevin Whelan of the Wrens, an independent band which contributed a track to an Esopus-themed CD.