{"id":355,"date":"2009-04-24T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:35:54","slug":"special-event-may-2-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Special Event, May 2, Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benefit Performance
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“Now That She’s Gone”<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Written & Performed By<\/h3>\n

Ellen Snortland<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saturday, May 2nd<\/sup> 2009<\/h4>\n

2:00 pm Curtain; Art Show & Film at 12 noon
\nVictoria Hall Theater
\n33 West Victoria Street
\nSanta Barbara, CA 93101<\/h4>\n

General admission: $20<\/h4>\n

http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets can be purchased by going to the above website and clicking on the EVENT TICKETS link along the top of the page; tickets will be at Will Call. Tickets may also be purchased at the box office on day of event<\/span> (cash or check ONLY)<\/h5>\n
For more information about tickets or volunteering, contact Bob Ballard at 805-646-5773, or email him at bobb@heartsoffire.tv<\/h5>\n

Gloria Steinem<\/em><\/strong> 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.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Nora Dunn, <\/em><\/strong>SNL Alum <\/strong>says, “Ms. Snortland has written a show with great tenderness, surprise, and revelation. \u00a0She delivers a poignant and completely original insight into the mother\/daughter relationship that is deeply moving, and often profound.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken Gruberman<\/em><\/strong>, Grammy award winner says, “I liked Ellen’s play so much that I married her!”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nominated for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama<\/span><\/em>,<\/span> “Now That She’s Gone” was first produced by EMP Theatricals, LLC, at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

For more information about Ms. Snortland, please visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.snortland.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

To view the trailer for her upcoming documentary, please visit:<\/p>\n

www.beautybitesbeast.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special Benefit Performance, May 2, Santa Barbara. One Day only. Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}