Download Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference

Media Contact: Dawn Kellogg
Communications Manager
(585) 420-2059
[email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Screen Plays – Hollywood’s Golden Age on Stage presents
Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference
in the Fielding Nextstage
May 4, 2015, Rochester, N.Y. Geva Theatre Center is delighted to host Screen Plays – Hollywood’s Golden
Age on Stage, and their production of Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference by Marcy Lafferty, directed by
David Henderson, from June 4 to June 7 in the Fielding Nextstage at Geva Theatre Center.
Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference is the story of a woman, blessed with all the Gods could bestow.
Brave and beautiful, a stage actress who owned the title role in the most popular motion picture ever made.
An English rose who garnered two Academy Awards for her portrayal of Southern heroines. Mistress, then
wife of the enamored Laurence Olivier, the man who never understood her greatest battles with depression.
For the bounty of her legacy eclipses the horrors of the madness that caused her such shame.
Actress Marcy Lafferty wrote Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference in 2004 as a one-woman vehicle for
herself and successfully performed this play at venues around the country. Her compelling portrait of the
aging actress, recalling incredible artistic highs, but beset by illness, has been produced at theatres around the
globe to great acclaim.
Rochester actress Marcy J. Savastano portrays Vivien Leigh and the play is directed by David Henderson.
Costumes were designed by Rochester-based fashion designer Zebulon Hounslea (“Downton Abbey”).
For further information, photographs or to arrange interviews, please contact:
Dawn Kellogg, Communications Manager, (585) 420 2059.
TICKET PRICES:
$15 General Admission (Before May 22)
$20 General Admission (After May 22)
$15 student/senior/groups of 10+
RESERVATIONS:
232-GEVA or via the website: www.gevatheatre.org
LOCATION:
Geva Theatre Center, Fielding Nextstage, 75 Woodbury Blvd,
Rochester, NY 14607
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Thursday, June 4 - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 5 - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 6 - 3:00 p.m. & 8pm
Sunday, June 7 - 2:00 p.m.
GEVA THEATRE CENTER
Founded in 1972, Geva Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional theatre company dedicated to creating and producing
professional theatre productions, programs and services of a national standard. As Rochester’s leading professional theatre,
Geva Theatre Center is the most attended regional theatre in New York State, and one of the 25 most attended in the country,
attracting over 160,000 patrons annually, including more than 16,000 students.
The 526-seat Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage offers a wide variety of shows, from musicals to American and world classics. The 180seat Ron & Donna Fielding Nextstage is home to Geva’s own series of cutting-edge drama, comedy and musical theatre; Geva
Comedy Improv; Geva’s New Play Reading Series and the Hornet’s Nest - an innovative play-reading series facilitating
community-wide discussion on controversial topics. The Nextstage also hosts visiting companies of both local and international
renown.
Geva Theatre Center offers a wide variety of educational, outreach and literary programs, nurturing audiences and artists alike.
Since 1995 the organization has been led by Artistic Director Mark Cuddy.
SCREEN PLAYS ~ HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN AGE ON STAGE
What began as a love of classic Hollywood films is now a new, classical theater production company. Producer Karen Tuccio,
brings more than a decade of local theater and film experience to this exciting venture. Her company will present plays from
Hollywood's Golden Age that have a positive message, especially those showcasing women in the best, brightest, and most
beautiful aspects of life.
*ENDS*