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Schedule of Events Stories and Essays Laura's Books & Audios Home Page
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| Internationally
acclaimed storyteller Laura Simms performs both set concerts and custom
programs tailored to your audience's interests and age level.
Performances may be public concerts, private parties, corporate events, festivals, and school/institution programs. Programs may also include musicians and related storytelling workshops. For booking and other information, call 212-674-3479, or email. Programs include:
RAVE FOR RECONCILED: "Simms salts this tour de force theatrical event of family secrets with hilarious memories, and weaves them with myth and ancient Jewish lore to create a spellbinging tale -- one that illuminates a spiritual journey that connects her with her dead ancestors. Her words move softly -- drawing the audience into deep listening -- and then roar with the verve of a New Orleans jazz band. She leaves tracks of sorrow and sweeps them away to reveal a realm of possibilities and enduring truths." -- Laura Holland, SF |
Reconciled
in the Book of Secrets (Or How to Find Romania) Written and performed by Laura Simms a story that intensely personal, yet unrelentingly universal." -- Jack Fleming RECONCILED IN THE BOOK OF SECRETS (Or How to Find Romania) is a one-woman performance of riveting personal narrative and uncanny traditional stories. Laura Simms is a master of the word and image. While telling us the history of her childhood in Brooklyn, NY, she reveals the remarkable journey of an artist's coming to terms with history, spirituality, and family after WWII. Directed by A Traveling Jewish Theater director Naomi Newman, RECONCILED breaks new ground with a direct theatre genre of storytelling that engages the audience with the immediacy of a kitchen table conversation. Laura becomes a myriad of characters including a Maori elder, a stubborn father, her Romanian grandmother, and herself: as fantast child, delinquent adolescent, and adult seeker. She tells stories from Africa and Babylon, shifting time and place with a subtle change of voice and the simplest of costume change. Laura Simms is a member of the American
Repertory
Theatre Company and has performed this as a work in progress in March
2001.
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Simms
has the power to create images that become mirrors reflecting the soul
of the listener." -- Kay Lindouer University of Syracuse |
Daughter
of the Night The monumental retelling of Demeter and Persephone Written and performed by Laura Simms  |
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| "Laura
Simms
is not the teller of stories. She IS, as the space she holds, The Robe
of Love. Laura can fly and take you with her. She can, with flagrant
confidence,
take a risk; a holy act of sacrifice, leaving you suspended and
waiting,
while she reaches down to tie her shoe. Then, with an outrageous laughs
she can return, delivering the story and your own soul with it. A soul
you had not realized was in flight all along." -- Jerry Wennstrom, artist, "In the Hands of Alchemy" |
The Robe
of Love An evening of stories written and told by Laura Simms. Renowned storyteller Laura Simms tells a night of humorous and riveting stories about emotional, physical, and spiritual love, both traditional and true life. This "tales for adults" program presents stories from Morocco, Russia, Africa, and the Black Sea, drawn from the Irish, Celits, and Jewish traditions. "Intriguing, wonderful, and ripe with the mysteries of love. The sell-out adult audience could hardly get enough." -- Geoffrey Navias, International Museum, Open Hand Theater ROBE OF LOVE was published in book form by CodHill Press. (Fall 2002, New York), and was choreographed into a dance program by Ed Burgess, and Janet LIlly. It was performed opening nights for the summer dance Festival in Milwaukee, May 27-29, 2003. |
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