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Recent Production - Golden Sardine                             pre-trailer - click here 

Come On In My Kitchen, 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta, GA,

full length play

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Cane's Theme, Francis Williams Theatre, Los Angeles, CA and

Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta, GA; one act play

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School Boy Blues, Watts Writer's Workshop, Los Angeles, CA;

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This premiere is a result of a theatre lab that employs the collaboration of theater professionals, students and faculty. The cast features WC drama instructor Polly Sommerfeld and local chanteuse Karen Somerville. Drama Department Chair, Dale Daigle directs with design support from Jason Rubin, Lawrence Stahl and a crew of students.

The GOLDEN SARDINE is a poetic vamp on the tragic poet archetype that utilizes aspects of the life and times of Bob Kaufman, a talented and complex poet who was instrumental in creating the Beatnik movement. Today he is barely remembered despite having appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and shunned invitations to lecture at Harvard. This poetic presentation does not pretend to retell Kaufman's life story in a traditional narrative fashion. This exploratory theatre production provides an audience with facets of the poet's existence allowing space for observers to come to their own conclusions as to how this character actually managed to create beautiful poetry.

Comments about Golden Sardine

I LOVED the performance today.

LOVED the energy, loved the images, loved the performances,

loved the ideas. really provocative.  thanks so much for sharing.

What a hip, thoughtful & beautiful play/poem/project.

Vince and I loved it.

Congratulations.

Leslie Prince Raimond

Executive Director, Kent County Arts

Congratulations.  What a great performance last night.  

Karen & Polly were superb. Please convey my congratulations

to Robert Earl as well.   Job VERY well Done!