HOPPER SCENES, a "SECOND ACT"
Short Performances Based on Edward Hopper's Paintings
Tickets are SOLD OUT!
but you can still attend the final scene, based on Hopper's 'Gettysburg' painting, in the garden at 5:45pm. suggested donation $5
June 9th, 2019: 5pm
admission limited to 40 tickets
$12 Members of the Edward Hopper House, $15 non-members. Become a member today!
admission limited to 40 tickets
$12 Members of the Edward Hopper House, $15 non-members. Become a member today!
Partnering with Rehabilitation through the Arts and Diana Green, we are thrilled to present a selection of theatrical scenes based on paintings by Edward Hopper, reimagined to consider issues of rehabilitation. Tableaux staged throughout Edward Hopper's House come to life as the audience is guided to experience each scene.
From left: Nina Berlingeri, Milton Jones, Diana Green, John Griffin, Jr., Patrick Griffin. Front row: Rich Maldonado.
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RTA's mission is to use the transformative power of the arts to develop social and cognitive skills that prisoners need for successful reintegration into the community. RTA also seeks to raise public awareness of the humanity behind prison walls.
"Indeed, people in prison can, while engaged in beauty and the arts and intellectual discourse, be their noblest selves..." - Baz Dreisinger, Incarceration Nations |
Edward Hopper, "Summer Interior" 1909, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 × 29 3/16 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art
SUMMER INTERIOR
I was adored once. He adored me like an actor adores an audience; singled Me out for his special secret star. It was a secret. Is it Thursday? I asked the sun but it wouldn't tell. I listened to the moon too. But she lies to me; that one, always with her sweet lies.
Conference At Night, 1949
MR. BARBER: Look, buddy, my dinner’s getting colder by the minute. What’s this all about?
MRS. MATHESON: Please answer the questions, Mr. Barber. Mr. Jones is Miss Bridewell’s representative and he received some unpleasant complaints about your behavior.
MR. BARBER: My behavior? Whaddaya mean? Did I miss a deadline or something?
MRS. MATHESON: Your interpersonal behavior with some of the young ladies from the 4th floor, chiefly Miss Bridewell.
MRS. MATHESON: Please answer the questions, Mr. Barber. Mr. Jones is Miss Bridewell’s representative and he received some unpleasant complaints about your behavior.
MR. BARBER: My behavior? Whaddaya mean? Did I miss a deadline or something?
MRS. MATHESON: Your interpersonal behavior with some of the young ladies from the 4th floor, chiefly Miss Bridewell.
Edward Hopper, "New York Movie" 1939, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
NEW YORK MOVIE
"I always loved watching the pictures when I was a kid. Never thought I’d be working here, but I feel really lucky to have a job. So many people on the streets and outta work. There musta been a hundred guys lined up outside to apply for the job. Don’t know how Mr. Johnson even had the heart to choose one. Charlie’s nice enough, but I don’t know how he was different from any of those other kids. He just got lucky. Like me."
Edward Hopper, "Summertime" Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 44 in. (74 x 111.8 cm), Gift of Dora Sexton Brown, 1962, Delaware Art Museum
Summertime, 1943
The sun on my face feels so good. Yes, mama, I know, not too much sun. But I wore my hat! I know freckles are vulgar, but the sun does feel good. And what else can I do while I wait here? The sun won’t spoil my dress, and he will like to see me in this dress. I think he said 11:00. Did I dream that? Oh, he was dreamy. So handsome in his officer’s uniform.
Edward Hopper, "Room In New York" 1932, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 in. F. M. Hall Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
THE MUSIC ROOM
GEORGE: Time for bed, Lucy.
LUCY: Maybe I can play just one song? You used to like me to play before bed.
GEORGE: We don’t want to wake the neighbors.
LUCY: Just one dance before we go.
LUCY: Maybe I can play just one song? You used to like me to play before bed.
GEORGE: We don’t want to wake the neighbors.
LUCY: Just one dance before we go.
All the pieces except for “Summer Interior” were written by Diana Green, Artistic Director of The Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. "Summer Interior" was written by Dan Hanchrow.
Edward Hopper, "Soir Bleu" 1914, oil on canvas, 36 1/8 × 71 15/16 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art
SOIR BLEU
PETER - a Harlequin clown, an unlit cigarette in his lips at the start of the action.
VINCENT - Eurotrash artsy type in black beret, black sport coat and a rakish beard and mustache.
CHARLES - We only see him from the back until the very end, he is busy with something on the table in front of him.
DORA - Actress. Intense. Dark eye make-up and very rouged cheeks. She was crying before she first enters.
VINCENT - Eurotrash artsy type in black beret, black sport coat and a rakish beard and mustache.
CHARLES - We only see him from the back until the very end, he is busy with something on the table in front of him.
DORA - Actress. Intense. Dark eye make-up and very rouged cheeks. She was crying before she first enters.
THE HOLDUP
RENZO: We gotta little problem, see? And I thought we could talk about it like men.
BILL: Sure. Sure. Can you just lower –
BILL: Sure. Sure. Can you just lower –
Edward Hopper, "Automat" 1927, oil on canvas, 28 in × 36 in. Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, IA
AUTOMAT
At least it’s warm in here. One nickel buys me a hot coffee and a place to warm my toes… for a short while at least. Then back to my little room. There’s that mean-faced manager again. What are you looking at? I paid for this coffee! And I have a pocket full of change. Maybe I’ll splurge and get the vanilla custard too. What would he say then?
