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Directed by Josh Gladstone. Featuring Hugh King, Rachel Viola, Robert Anthony, Toni Munna, Michael Nathanson, Andrew Botsford, Josh Perl, Joseph Brondo, Peter Fitzgerald, Laura Engel, Emma Engel, Jimmy Ewing, Joe Gonzalez, Burke Gonzalez, August Gladstone, Joe Pallister, Jessica Bailey, Shashi Balooja, Vay David and Brett Chizever. Winner of the 1990 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society. "…majestic…leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found." —NY Times. "This is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message…" —NY Post. "THE GRAPES OF WRATH is a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn." —NY Magazine.

Sun 4/26 “Bring Your Own Bowl” Garden Picnic and Soup Kitchen to benefit The Springs Community Seedlings Project 4:30 pm Suggested donation of $10 adults/$5 children/$20 with wine/under 5 Free Directly following a Staged Reading of THE GRAPES OF WRATH, Guild Hall and the Springs Community Seedlings Project will be hosting a “Bring Your Own Bowl” Garden Picnic and Soup Kitchen in the Ruth Dean Memorial Garden at Guild Hall. Soups and bread from some of the East End’s best chefs will be featured, as well as iced tea, lemonade, and wine (for an additional suggested donation). This benefit will support The Springs Community Seedlings project, a program sponsored by Project MOST (Making the MOST of After School Time). The Springs Community Seedlings Project, which is a collaboration between local restauranteurs who are parents of children at the Springs School, local farms and the after school program Project MOST, is a greenhouse and garden that will serve as a learning laboratory and community food source at the school.

Sun 4/26 Naked Stage Marathon: THEATRE GAMES - ACTion Workshop for Teens 14 & up with Tanya Tavereau 11:30 am – 1:00 pm $10 / $8 Members of Guild Hall Taught by professional actress and teaching artist Tanya Tavereau, this workshop is all about games...theatre games specifically designed to draw out creativity and to develop performance skills. We play to learn more about ourselves and the world around us. Games help teach us how to work and live together, to accommodate and to help one another. Because most games have winners and losers, we learn to accept positive and negative outcomes. This is a great family workshop! Tanya Tavereau is a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School, Masters Degree Program.

She starred as the kooky cockney cook in Don’t Dress for Dinner at The John Drew Theater, and received rave reviews. She played Marion in Harvey Fiersteins’ On Tidy Endings at The Actors Studio as well as Circle in the Square. Some of her favorite roles she’s worked on include Chick in Crimes of the Heart, Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and a year of research and performance work on Marilyn Monroe. Ms. Tavereau was an elementary school teacher for 10 years in New York City. While teaching at the Lycee Francais she started the Creative Play Afterschool Workshop, which was geared toward children with language and developmental difficulties. She has since turned the curriculum into several different school programs and does workshops as a visiting artist. She is currently a private coach and voice-over artist in radio, t.v. and film.

Sun 4/26 Naked Stage Marathon: 3 SHORT COMEDIES - Staged Readings of THE WAY OF ALL FISH by Elaine May, BOY MEETS GIRL by Wendy Wasserstein, and GOD by Woody Allen 7:00 pm $8 Members / $10 Nonmembers 3 SHORT COMEDIES: Staged Readings of THE WAY OF ALL FISH by Elaine May, BOY MEETS GIRL by Wendy Wasserstein, and GOD by Woody Allen. Directed by Josh Perl and Toni Munna. Featuring Joe DeSane, Shashi Balooja, Josh Gladstone, Kate Mueth, Jackie Fenley, Judi Roth, David Weinstein, Ellen Paul,Joe Mintzer, Andrew Berg, Michael Nathanson, Joseph Brondo, Morgan Duke, Lisa Bonner, Rachel Viola and an ensemble cast TBA. THE WAY OF ALL FISH by Elaine May: The first of the three hit comedies produced Off Broadway under the title Power Plays, this is a ping pong power game played between a self absorbed executive and her seemingly drab secretary. Over an impromptu dinner together, the executive's condescending graciousness drains away as the secretary explains her fantasy of gaining immortality by killing someone famous and successful someone like her boss. "Oodles of laughs." N.Y Daily News. BOY MEETS GIRL by Wendy Wasserstein: Dan and Molly, two successful, thirty-something New Yorkers, are afraid of making a commitment. With the help of their psychiatrists, they finally find the courage to tie the knot under the altar before Her Majesty, the Queen. GOD by Woody Allen: Set in an empty Greek amphitheater, this mad play within a play switches back and forth between ancient Athens and modern Broadway. A Greek actor and a writer are discussing how to end a play. Actors, including Doris Levine from Great Neck, Blanche DuBois, and Groucho Marx, pop out of the audience. Peppered with metaphysical and philosophical questions, the play skids along farcically until the actor and writer conclude that it lacks a beginning as well as an end.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. GUILD HALL MUSEUM AND GALLERIES 158 Main Street, East Hampton 324-0806 Apr 25 – May 30 71st Annual Artist Members Exhibition We are delighted to have Jodi Hauptman serve as the Awards Juror. Ms. Hauptman is a Curator in the Department of Drawings at The Museum