Pretty As A Swastki September 18, 2008

A professionally staged reading of a new play
Pretty as a Swastika
by Lynne Kaufman, directed by Lee Sankowich
Thursday, September 18 7:30pm
Suggested Donation $15.00

PRETTY AS A SWASTIKA by Lynne Kaufman opens the fall season of readings from the Playwrights’ Lab. Lee Sankowich will direct, Wanda McCaddon* appears as Leni; L. Jeffrey Moore portrays the reporter. *Member, Equity Actors Union

Legendary New York gossip columnist Walter Winchell described Leni Riefenstahl, the German film maker and Hitler favorite, as ‘pretty as a swastika’. The play presents Riefenstahl in her 70s being interviewed by a black reporter from the New York Times. His goal is to persuade her to admit to awareness of the horror and cruelty of the Hitler years and the Holocaust.

Playwrights' Lab is the new play development program of 142 Throckmorton Theatre. The Lab offers readings of full-length plays by Lab members six times a year as well as the Writers with Attitude festival in February and special programs with students.

Playwrights’ Lab is partially supported by a grant from the Marin Arts Council and by 142 Throckmorton Theatre.

Official Website: http://www.142throckmortontheatre.org