LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
by CJ Nolan
WHEN: Monday July, 6th 7PM
WHERE: Holmdel Theatre Company at The Duncan Smith Theater, 36 Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel NJ 07733 (on the grounds of the Holmdel High School)
TICKETS: Free (coffee is served)
www.holmdeltheatrecompany.org
On September 8, 1979, the body of American actress Jean Seberg ("Breathless", "Paint Your Wagon") was found in the back seat of a car, covered with a blanket, on a deserted street in Paris.
On another September 8, several hundred years earlier, a young Joan of Arc moved on the city of Paris which led to her capture and being burned at the stake. At the age of forty, Jean committed suicide through an overdose of pills found at the scene. Joan’s death eventually brought her to sainthood.
These two lives are traced in Lightning In A Bottle by C J Nolan. The story is an American tragedy—one deeply rooted in the optimism of the Fifties, the anger of the Sixties, and the Seventies despair. It is a true story told by two women—a young girl who must discover the heart of a saint and an older woman trying to save her own soul.
THE CAST:
- Jean - Laura Casey
- Young Jean - Amanda Deltuvia
- Voices - Brian Craig
