Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve 

at New Mexico Actors Lab

Thursday • February 9 • 7:30 PM

New Mexico Actors Lab • 1213 Parkway Drive • Santa Fe

Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross return to New Mexico Actors Lab for another Valentine week benefit, this time performing an adaptation by David Birney of Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve. The late actor David Birney (Meredith Baxter’s former husband) combined Eve’s Diary with an earlier piece by Twain called Extracts from Adam’s Diary into the endearing The Diaries of Adam and Eve, which serves as a pleasurable reminder of Twain’s storytelling genius and how much fun it is to hear his words aloud.  Gross and Baxter will portray the universe’s first couple as Twain envisioned them: Eve is wiser, smarter and more eager for a relationship than Adam, who is exasperated by Eve’s relentless chatter. NMAL Managing Director Robert Benedetti will direct the production and hold a Q/A session after the show.

So how does it work?

🚩 NOTE: The Performance is SOLD OUT but if you have tickets and want to attend the Talk Back after the show please use the form below to register.

+ Please sign up for the event using the registration form below.

+ Masks are recommended for all performances.


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Preferably, please submit a separate registration for each Steps Out attendee so that we can know how many seats to reserve for TLC members. You may also submit for a small group, but please provide each guest’s name and email.

 
 
 

TLC Steps Out: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison 

The Unitarian Universalist Church

Sunday • February 19th, 2023 • 4 p.m. 107 W Barcelona • Santa Fe 

We’re going to the Movies! Join fellow Theater Lovers Club members at the showing of The Santa Fe Film Festival’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison”.

"It's almost like for three hours we weren't in prison," says Zeb, one of the prison inmates in rural Eastern Oregon who arrives at the transformative possibility of re-imagining his life story, past and future, while putting on Shakespeare's comedic tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prison, under lock-down. As the journey unfolds, themes of gender identity and the challenges faced by BIPOC prisoners are deftly explored, and the power of the arts to challenge and heal, even under the most difficult circumstances, is affirmed and celebrated.

There will be a short movie and a talkback afterwards. The talkback is with the Producer Of Midsummer, Johnny Stallings who is also one of the subjects. Here is the link for the film short. http://santafefilmfestival.com/index/film/exit-12/

🚩 NOTE: This event’s registration form will be available after February 9’s event has passed. Check back then.