Little Pond Arts Retreat will be holding three performances for the general public of Erika Batdorf’s Poetic License, Thursday April 30; Friday, May 1 & Saturday May 2, all @ 7 pm at the 92 South Penn Dixie Rd., Nazareth, Pa retreat center.
Erika BatdorfDora Nominated (Toronto’s equivalent of the Tony’s) for Outstanding New Play or Musical, Outstanding Performance by a Female - Erika Batdorf; and Outstanding Direction - Todd Hammond -- the solo work runs 75 minutes long and is characterized as funny, uplifting, and complex.
“Have you ever wanted to walk out on your job, your kids, your whole life? What is truly radical? What is education? What is inappropriate in the context of an academic environment? What is eternity? What is life like after death? If there is life after death and you die a smoker, will you still crave nicotine?”
Poetic License refers to, or includes poetry from Yeats, Blake, Kerouac, Tahirih (an Iranian poetess who was killed in the 1840s), Oliver, Ginsberg, Baudelaire, Pound, Wilde, Plath, Eliot and Artaud.
Theatre and interactive talk show come together in Poetic License as we meet Marti, a creative writing professor at the brink of walking out on her life.
Her sister, partially paralyzed and full of humour, challenges the audience to examine desire in the context of eternity.
Performances will be held at Little Pond Arts Retreat, 92 South Penn Dixie Rd., Nazareth.
Admission is free, with a suggested Donation of $25, but please reserve a seat by emailing
Also, as part of Ms. Batdorf’s residency, there will be a two-day Residency dedicated to “Enhancing the Devotional Space through Theatre” dedicated to all interested youth – ages 15 to 27.
Admission is free. Participants will look at a few basic techniques, review devising strategies, and create their own Devotional Meeting for Sunday, May 3 at 1 pm as part of the Little Pond monthly devotional series.
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