The Provincetown Fringe Festival in Asbury Park presents:
Species Stew: Everything You Never Wanted to Know
About Interspecies Relations,
But I'm Going to Tell You Anyway
Performed by:
Anne Berkowitz, Diane Jackson, Marjorie Conn & Susan Marco
Written by Jackie Freitas
Come hear the truth you were never told about interspecies relations.
Hear it directly from the “Species of the Little World.”
Friday, March 28 at 7 pm
Saturday, March 29 at 2 pm
Sunday, March 30 at 2 pm
Performances are at the Stephen Crane House
508 Fourth Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
Seating is limited and reservations are strongly recommended at 732-807-4052. Tickets are $5 and include complimentary refreshments. A reception with discussion will follow each performance.
About the Play
This is a reading of a play by first-time playwright Jackie Freitas, from the company that brought you the SRO performances of Vagina Monologues & Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story. Proceeds from all performances will benefit Greyhound Rescue Organizations that find homes for ex-racing Greyhounds.
In the play, 27 species put humans on trial for their atrocities, while two species testify in their defense. The prosecuting attorney is an eloquent ventriloquist crow puppet playing the part of Crowtorney, and the human defense attorney will also be played by Conn in a Jekyll-and-Hyde scenario. Marco portrays be the Caterpillar, who recites a Greek-chorus style poem that runs throughout the play and morphs into a Butterfly as she takes the stand to testify. Jackson and Berkowitz will be portraying all of the accusing species. Species Woman, protector of all living things of Earth and the Universe, is the judge:
She’ll make the decision of whether to nudge
humans off this place, and start a new race;
to do what humans dissed, a being who can coexist
with all of Earth’s little ones, without toxins and guns.
