Note from Sylvia SilviCol, the cast so far for Lucila

Hello. I write from Quebec City, the University of Laval, where I`m doing a long-term stay (sejour longue), meaning I have a very comfortable room with telephone and shower (or even a bath!) and all is beautiful as always here in the civilized city. Yesterday Quebec celebrated 400 years of history. Imagine? And still civilized, still kindly, still gracious, still a city where the bus drivers kindly correct the manners of the young, if need be.

So if need be I apologize for going so long without posting anything (and worse for the website itself) but it`s mainly because I was first in a cabin in the woods without electricity, in northern Vermont, and since coming here I`d been unable to find a computer to use because all was closed for the weekend and early week celebration of the 400th anniversary of Quebec.

But here we are, with Joe`s note below. He also sent a list of the cast so far, and I`m very, very pleased to see that he himself will play Don Baldomero. Here`s the list:

Inma Heredia (The Queen of Truth)
Annalisa Derr (Lucila)
Elena Araoz (Emmelina)
Elizabeth Acosta (Pepita)
Laura Gaspari (Adelaida)
Joseph Franchini (Baldomero)

And by the way, to read either of the plays chosen for this year`s FringeNYC festival, go to Celtx Project Central with http://pc.celtx.com, then put the name SilviCol in the search box. A thumbnail feature sketch comes up -- the picture is me at 11 in Central Park -- and then if you click there you`ll have a list of plays. The play for Frederick Demuth is called A Christmas Eve`s Visit ... on Celtx, and the play for Gabriela Mistral is called Lucila`s Story.... Once you have the play come up, click for the stageplay. There. That`s simple, right?

By the way, the play Me, You & Eli produced for the 2005 NYC Fringe Festival, Pierrot le Quin, is there, too, along with two other Maupassant adaptations. The idea was to have the three produced together as a full evening with Maupassant, a wonderful story teller.

Celtx, by the way, is free to use for playwrights and screenwriters and anybody working collaboratively. It`s a great way to go, in my opinion. It`s Canadian. No W`s.

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Sylvia SilviCol