“There's food, water, and stories,” said Cedering Fox, producer of Los Angeles based Word Theater on Saturday night at Guild Hall in East Hampton at a program featuring a dozen actors reading short stories. “I believe that storytelling is a primary need.” The daughter of the late poet/artist Civ Cedering whose Sagaponack home was the impressionable site of artistic gatherings, Cedering Fox met renowned poets as well as Bill Henderson, founder/publisher of The Pushcart Prize. In 1975, Henderson wrote to Anais Nin, Paul Bowles, Ralph Ellison and others for suggestions of accomplished young writers. Thus began Pushcart Prize, dedicated to publishing the best of the small presses. Saturday's program, a collaboration of Fox's and Henderson's passion for literature included readings by Lynn Whitfield, Samantha Mathis, Amber Tamblyn, Linus Roache, Darrell Larson, Edi Gathegi, Nicole Ansari, and Janel Moloney. Brian Cox read a story by Marvin Cohen called “The Human Table” with relish. Now he is eager to meet the New York based writer who famously cruised New York cocktail parties just to eat. Sean Young who seemed to disappear from Hollywood -she says she's been blacklisted- read Janice Eidus's “Not the Plaster Casters” with fervor for the protagonist who makes casts of rock stars' privates. Jackson Rathbone traveled 5 hours from the set of a film he's making in Philadelphia, just to read “The Bank Robbery” by Steve Schutzman, and then performed with Ben Graupner of the 100 Monkeys after the readings. Amy Irving who is starring in the upcoming Guild Hall production of Glass Menagerie read, as did John Heard, from Ian Frazier's “Tomorrow's Bird.” “Cedering suggested I read it as if I liked the idea of crow dominance of the bird species,” he told me, providing some insight into Fox's directing technique, how she blocked each story with each reader, getting the beats. “I've seen Cedering put together a lot of these events,” said Heard, “but this one was the best yet.”
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