‘Desire Line’ opens NACL season

Posted 8/21/12

HIGHLAND LAKE, NY — NACL Theatre (see feature on pages 14 and 15) opens its 15th season with “Desire Line,” a performance reading and book launch of Laura Moran’s new memoir. Performances …

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‘Desire Line’ opens NACL season

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HIGHLAND LAKE, NY — NACL Theatre (see feature on pages 14 and 15) opens its 15th season with “Desire Line,” a performance reading and book launch of Laura Moran’s new memoir. Performances will take place Saturday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 31 at 3 p.m. The event will also feature Eva Barnett, Gracie O’Connor and Tannis Kowalchuk.

Moran’s book combines autobiography, invention, and spirited rumination on the various levels of love and longing—for the body’s heat, for the mind’s light, for knowledge both lived and learned, and for the alphabetically written and the orally/aurally delivered and heard. Moran explores how the personal and mythical intertwine, how humans come to consciousness and depart from it, how language and memory mix with desire. She examines both the matrilineal line of her family (grandmother, aunt, mother, sister, daughter) and, to a lesser extent, the patrilineal (father, brother, lover) and discovers what she has (and hasn’t) inherited from them.

Signed copies of “Desire Line,” published by Stockport Flats Press, will be on sale following each performance. This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc., with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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