Benefit Performance
“Now That She’s Gone”
Written & Performed By
Ellen Snortland
Saturday, May 2nd 2009
2:00 pm Curtain; Art Show & Film at 12 noon
Victoria Hall Theater
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
General admission: $20
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Gloria Steinem says, “Ellen says I’m the ‘grandmother’ of this play, but I’m not crazy enough to think that it was my planting of a seed when in fact it is her enormous talent… She has a gift for being serious and funny, making you laugh and understand at the same time. The first time I saw it, I brought two friends who were visiting New York City from Kenya – a mother and a daughter – to see it, and they loved it too; it’s universal.”
Nora Dunn, SNL Alum says, “Ms. Snortland has written a show with great tenderness, surprise, and revelation. She delivers a poignant and completely original insight into the mother/daughter relationship that is deeply moving, and often profound.”
Ken Gruberman, Grammy award winner says, “I liked Ellen’s play so much that I married her!”
Nominated for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, “Now That She’s Gone” was first produced by EMP Theatricals, LLC, at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival
“Now That She’s Gone” is a play that explores Ellen Snortland’s often hilarious, irreverent and sometimes torturous relationship with her Norwegian-American mother. Now That She’s Gone has been described as a Lily Tomlin / Garrison Keillor / Eve Ensler hybrid… passionate, poignant and funny in turns. A memoir piece with Eleanor Roosevelt, sex, drugs and lutefisk, the play and performance have received rave reviews and standing ovations in California, New York, and Washington, D.C.
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