Eugenio at LIncolnia

Lincolnia Center and the Seventh Street Playhouse

PRESENTS A PROFESSIONALLY STAGED READING OF

EUGENIO

 As performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Press Club

and the  2008 New York Midtown Festival

May 6, 2013, 7:30 PM       Lincolnia Center

 

By

ANTHONY E. GALLO

This fact based two act drama should be of special interest to NPC members because the subject deals with that tragic period in Italian during the Holocaust   when 1500 hundred Jews were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.  The drama touches on the role of the Church and the Holocaust, and examines forgiveness amidst three conversions. Rome's aloof and scholarly Chief Rabbi Zolli loses faith following the apparent slaughter of his Polish family. .  He receives asylum in the Vatican, where he comes to appreciate Jesus as God suffering for humanity. The Rabbi re-finds faith and converts to Roman Catholicism. This is seen as a betrayal of his spiritual duty and a defection to the age-old enemy. Was his conversion one of conviction or merely gratitude? What does he demand at his baptism that eventually removes a major symbol of discrimination?

 

Cast

 

Rabbi Zolli                             Shanker Singham

Rosina                                                Shirl Weaver

Sister Angelina                      Bonnie Jourdan*

Monsignor Hilary                  Tim Wolf

Colonel Schmitt                     David Weaver

Cardinal Maglioni                 James Howard

Mr. Anso                                Pat Martin

Narrator                                 Beatrix Whitehall

Sound Design                         Beatrix Whitehall

Hostess                                    Karen Albers

 

*Best Supporting Actress Nomination            New York Midtown Festival 2008

 

                                               

  Questions:  Agallo2368@verizon.net or 202 544 6973Lincolnia Senior Center   (703) 914-02234710 N Chambliss St, Alexandria, VA 22312 Cross Streets: Between Lincolnia Rd and Beauregard St.  No charge or donations

 

Albert Leisegang, cinematographer for our Eastern Market Studios(Charleston Revisited), recently shot the video for  Martin Scorsese's Film Preservation Lecture at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Working with several other researchers to find Frederic Law Olmsted’s  model of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania presented at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.  Have made several trips to the Library of Congress.  

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Press coverage of Pope Francis newsmaker I hosted at the National Press Club:  http://press.org/news-multimedia/news/new-pope-shuns-pomp-will-focus-poverty-father-thomas-reese-says

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To meet with Brown-Nederlander for New York production of Margherita when we return from Africa in May.

Planning production of the Botticelli Cruise at the Greenbelt Arts Center this summer. Shirl Weaver will be directing.

Arranging for Thomas J. Reese, SJ, to speak on Pope Francis: Election and the Future at the National Press Club on April 2.  

Reading of screenplay Charleston Revisited tonight in prepartion for shooting.

Researching  the Frederic Law Olmsted display of Vandergrift at the St. Louis World Fair of 1904.  Both at Library of Congress and the Olmsted Historic Site in Massachusetts. 

Over the past several years I have hosted many newsmaker programs at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Here is a sample.: http://npc.aegallo.com/