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Cakewalk

By: Peter Feibleman, Carly Simon
Narrated by: Samantha Bennett, Bruce Davison, Claudette Nevins, Raphael Sbarge, Elaine Stritch
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The memory play has grown into a full-blown genre, in which a character addresses the audience directly between scenes of his or her remembrances. On stage such fare yields problematic results because the present tense of live performance often collides with the past tense of memory. On the other hand, in audio, it combines the feel of theater with storytelling. In this instance, novelist Feibleman recalls his affair with his mentor, the late Lillian Hellman, the hard-living playwright and activist, a quarter-century older than he. The formidable Hellman is portrayed by the formidable Elaine Stritch, and her narrating protégé by Bruce Davison. Though under-rehearsed, these fine performers, as well as the subject matter, provide fascinating listening, loaded with wit and true-life drama.

Publisher's Summary

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch stars as author Lillian Hellman in Peter Feibleman’s beguiling account of Hellman’s tumultuous relationship across several decades with a man 25 years her junior, played by Oscar nominee Bruce Davison.

Accompanied by the original music of Carly Simon. Includes a conversation with Hellman scholar Deborah Martinson, author of Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2000.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Samantha Bennett as Esther Bruce

Bruce Davison as Cuff

Claudette Nevins as Women’s Voices

Raphael Sbarge as Men’s Voices

Elaine Stritch as Lilly

Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna

Foley Artist/Stage Manager: John Lovick
©2009 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2009 L.A. Theatre Works
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  • 16-03-2024

Two great actors & a complex relationship

A poignant play… with an occasional nice sprinkling of humour… but really for fans of Stritch + Davison, who are both great 👍

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