Join Gregory Maguire, author of Matchless, and Debra Wise, director of Matchless & the Happy Prince, to learn more about the adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl for the stage!
Gregory Maguire received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University. His work as a consultant in creative writing for children has taken him to speaking engagements across the United States and abroad. He is a founder and codirector of Children’s Literature New England, Incorporated, a non-profit educational charity established in 1987. The author of numerous books for children, Mr. Maguire is also a contributor to Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence, a collection of short stories for gay and lesbian teenagers.
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Join the cast and creative team after Journey to the West to learn more about how they brought this renowned and dynamic tale to the stage!
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Join us after the Friday performance for a Scholar Social with Dr Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein professor of Chinese History at Harvard University, and director Lee Mikeska Gardner to discuss the historic and literary significance of Journey to the West and the Chinese novel from which our play derives!
Dr. Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. He is also the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity, as well as the co-author, with Christine Gross-Loh, of The Path: What Chinese Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Good Life.
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Join the performers and puppeteers after the show to learn more about the world they created for Matchless & the Happy Prince!
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Join Underground Railway Artistic Director Debra Wise for a post-show conversation with musician and found object sculptor Ruth Roper. Many of the objects in the Matchless set came from Ruth‘s home, which could be a museum.
Ruth makes the discovery and assemblage of found objects into an art form. She previously toured with URT for five years as the pianist for the original cabaret, Washed-Up Middle-Aged Women, and with churches and choruses around the Boston area over the past decades, most notably the lively, popular 250+ voice Mystic Chorale.
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