[NEohioPAL] Akron Boiling Point Alternative Play Reading of Jack Kerouac's lost play Beat Generation

Nici Romo via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Wed Mar 11 14:02:38 PDT 2015


 Wandering	Aesthetics	is	proud	to	announce Beat	Generation by	Jack	Kerouac as	the next	play	in	our	monthly	play	reading	series,	


The	Boiling	Point.  Beat	Generation will	be	read	on	Tuesday,	March	17,	2015	at	7	pm	at	The	WOMB located at	915	E.	Market	St. in	Akron,	


Ohio.




The Boiling	Point is	a	free	event	and	open	to	the	public.	Anyone	may	come	and	read	a	part	or	simply	listen	and	join	the	discussion	afterwards.	For more


information	visit	www.tinyurl.com/BoilingPoint11 or	email	watheatre at gmail.com 




About	the	Play:


 Written	in	the	throes	of	On	the	Road's	commercial	success	in	1957 (but	lost	for	many	decades),	Kerouac’s	Beat	Generation follows	the	sweetly	sozzled	Buck,	his	pal	Milo	and	their collection	of	fellow	misfits. As	ever	in	Kerouac’s	work,	the	ill-fated	search	for	enlightenment	is	central	to	the	play.	His	characters	are	a	ragtag	assemblage	of	personalities based	on	recognizable	Beat-era	figures – Neal	Cassady,	Allen	Ginsberg	and even Kerouac	himself	– who	specialized	in	creative	loafing.	Also,	like	so	much	of	his	work, glimpses	of	humor,	wordplay,	and	emotional	illumination	turn	up	as welcome	signposts	amid	the	aimlessness.


 About	the	Playwright:


 Jack	Kerouac	was	an	American	writer	best	known	as	a	creative	engine	for the	Beat	Generation	throughout	the	1950s. Considered	a	literary	iconoclast,	Kerouac	is	recognized	for	his	method	of	spontaneous	prose.	He	became	an	underground	celebrity	and,	with	other	Beats,	a	forefather of	the	hippie	movement,	although	he	remained	antagonistic	toward	some	of	its	politically	radical elements.During	the	late	1940’s, Kerouac	and	his	friends took	several	cross-country	road	trips	to	Chicago,	Los	Angeles,	Denver and	Mexico	City.	These	trips	provided	the	inspiration	for	Kerouac's	greatest	novel,	On	the	Road– a	barely	fictionalized	account	packed	with	sex,	drugs	and	jazz.	Kerouac's	writing	of	On	the	Road in	1951	is	the	stuff	of	legend:	He	wrote	the	entire	novel	over	one	three-week	bender	of	frenzied	composition,	on	a	single	scroll	of	paper	that	was	120	feet	long. Kerouac	also	wrote	poetry in	his	later	years,	composing	mostly	long-form	free	verse	as	well	as	his	own	version	of	the	Japanese	haiku	form.	Despite	maintaining	a	prolific	pace	of	publishing	and	writing,	Kerouac	was	never	able	to	cope	with	the	fame	he	achieved	after	On	the	Road,	and	his	life devolved	into	a	blur	of	drunkenness	and	drug	addiction.	He	died	from	an	abdominal	hemorrhage on	October	21,	1969,	at	the	age	of	47,	in	St.	Petersburg,	Florida. 


About	The	Boiling	Point


:	The	Boiling	Point	is	that	wild	moment	where	internal	pressures	surpass	outer,	triggering	a	transformation.	“Alternative”	plays	serve	as	our	fuel	to	ignite	the	minds	of	Akronites.	By	reading	a	diverse	array	of	texts,	we	set	ablaze	different	genres,	aesthetics	and	cultures– especially	those	works	beyond	the	scope	of	traditional	American	theatre.	The	friction	between	these	new	encounters	and	their resulting	conversations	will	generate	the	spark	of	fresh	ideas	that	will	take	Akron	to	The	Boiling	Point.
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