Robert Schenkkan to give talk at BPA

Bainbridge Performing Arts hosts “An Evening with Playwright Robert Schenkkan,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Kentucky Cycle,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20.

March 19, 2014 5:14 pm
Bainbridge Performing Arts will present three weekends of performances of 'The Kentucky Cycle' March 12–30 at Bainbridge Performing Arts.
Bainbridge Performing Arts will present three weekends of performances of 'The Kentucky Cycle' March 12–30 at Bainbridge Performing Arts.

Bainbridge Performing Arts hosts “An Evening with Playwright Robert Schenkkan,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Kentucky Cycle,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20.

Schenkkan will discuss the importance of history as a dramatic tool for illuminating the issues of our own time. He will also describe how “The Kentucky Cycle” evolved from a one-act play in 1984 to the epic six-hour masterpiece that premiered at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre in 1991.

The free program is supported in part by a grant from Humanities Washington, a state-wide nonprofit organization supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the state of Washington, and contributions from individuals and foundations.

For more information, call 206-842-8569 or visit www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org.