Howl! Festival “Beat & Beyond 2016” Presents
33 & 1/3 CORNELIA STREET
A staged reading of a new play by Alvin Eng
Featuring Bob Holman as Joe Gould, Mink Stole as Alice Neel
with Lulu Fogarty, Paul Gigante, Carlo Fiorletta and Matthew Maguire
Monday, JUNE 6th @ 9 PM
Howl! Gallery, 6 E. 1st St., East Village, Free Admission
The Howl!
Festival—celebrating the artistry and legacy of Allen Ginsberg—will
present a staged reading of 33 & 1/3 CORNELIA STREET at the newly
renovated Howl! Gallery at 6 East First St, NYC, on Monday, June 6 at 9 PM.
Alternating between Bohemian Greenwich Village and a 1970s Women's
Studies lecture by accidental feminist icon and painter Alice Neel, the
play dramatizes the conflicts of spiritual vs. commercial ownership of
art and personal stories. 33 & 1/3 Cornelia Street explores the conjoined legacy of urban legend/proto-Beat poet Joe Gould and celebrated New Yorker journalist
Joseph Mitchell through the vortex of Neel's groundbreaking 1933
portrait of Gould. Mitchell immortalized Gould in a 1942 The New Yorker profile
for writing the longest book ever written and the first oral history—or
did he? Later, Mitchell published a second profile, “Joe Gould’s
Secret,” claiming Gould’s opus to be a hoax…or was it?
For the Howl! reading, Joe Gould will be played by Bob Holman, poet, Bowery Poetry founder and PBS Language Matters host.
Alice Neel will be played by the legendary Mink Stole, featured in all
of John Waters' films. The cast will also feature Obie Award winner
Matthew Maguire as Joseph Mitchell,
Paul Gigante as Ken Doolittle, Carlo
Fiorletta as Minetta Tavern bartender and Lulu Fogarty as Younger Alice
Neel. Dramaturg is Wendy Wasdahl.
With the recent publication of Jill Lepore’s new book, “Joe Gould’s Teeth” (based on her New Yorker profile of the same name—marking the third time Gould has been featured in The New Yorker),
as well as Thomas Kunkel’s 2015 biography, “Joseph Mitchell: Man in
Profile,” and with Alice Neel a perennial for exhibitions, the play is
play very timely and we look forward to a future full production.
Admission is free, seating is first come, first served. For more info: Howl Festival website or call 917.475.129 Alvin’s website
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| MATTHEW MAGUIRE |
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| BOB HOLMAN |
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| MINK STOLE |
