Sanders Theatre at the Ft Worth Community Arts Center

Elaine Liner – Dallas, Texas

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Performance Times:

Friday, September 10 – 7:30pm

Saturday, September 11 – 2:00pm & 7:20pm

Lord's day, September 12 – 2:00pm

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ABOUT THE PIECE –In "Sweater Curse: A Yarn near Love," writer-performer Elaine Liner weaves bitterly funny tales of her obsession with knitting and great knitters in history, plus stories of her own unraveled romances. Critics in the United kingdom and US accept chosen it a "five-star purl jam" that will "have y'all in stitches."

The play explains the quondam wives' tale that says any sweater knitted for a lover will be "cursed" and he or she will split earlier the knitting is completed. Liner's storytelling detours into literature's famous knitters, including Penelope and her shroud in The Odyssey, Madame DeFarge and her busy needles in A Tale of Two Cities, and the many references to knitting in Shakespeare. ("Hey, Will worked nights," says Liner, "so his married woman had to be a knitter, right?")

Later 3 decades as an honor-winning journalist, writing for magazines and newspapers, Liner plant the dwindling impress media biz left more time for making sweaters and making plays. "I've always knitted to relax between deadlines," she says. "When I ran across the term `sweater curse' on Wikipedia, the idea for the play was born."

Liner premiered her one-woman play at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, in August 2013. She returned for a second run at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, and has toured to the Theatre Rough Fringe in Oklahoma City, New Orleans Fringe, Dallas Solo Festival, Granbury Opera House, MCL K Theatre (Lewisville, TX), Henderson County Performing Arts Center and other venues. She recently performed for the Lake Highlands Book Review Gild's 60th ceremony lunch in Dallas, the Rockwall (TX) Volume Review Club, and for a special matinee audition in Sherman, TX.

Also writing the script and playing the solo role (directed by San Antonio theater pro Tim Hedgepeth), Liner likewise knitted and crocheted all of her scenery and props, including "yarn-bombing" two chairs, a glaze rack, some stools and other items. She's fabricated and sold dozens of hats and shawls to fundraise for travel expenses, and has crocheted more than 6,000 tiny hearts, given to each patron in her audiences. "I've been knitting and crocheting since I was eight. Giving every audience member a handmade souvenir just shares my love of the arts and crafts," she says.

Performing this play "inverse my life," says Liner, who debuted as a playwright and actress at age 59. "And wherever I've done it, knitters, male and female, quondam and young, have found the show and connected with it. The message of the play is that some relationships merely aren't sweater-worthy after all – and people who knit and crochet really understand that. What tickles me is that even people who've never knitted a stitch get information technology, also."

ABOUT THE PRESENTER –Elaine Liner wrote arts criticism for the Dallas Observer starting in the 1980s (till 2017). She was also a columnist for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Toledo Blade, and Boston Herald, and has won awards from the Associated Printing Managing Editors, Dallas Press Club, and Women in Communications. A graduate of Trinity University, where she earned her degree in theater studying with Dallas Theater Heart founder Paul Baker, she later got a master's at SMU. Elaine was a critic beau at the O'Neill Critics Institute in 2006, a two-fourth dimension James Thurber Writer-in-Residence in Columbus, Ohio, and taught writing, media ethics and media history at SMU for many years. For the past viii years, she's led a motivational workshop chosen "Mastering the Media Matrix" that helps artists, authors, performers, and other creatives navigate publicity without a publicist. Her four-character comedy Finishing School won the 2017-'18 NewPlayFest at the American Clan of Customs Theatres and was published by Dramatic Publishing. Her latest play, Dearest Donald/Dear Hillary: Their Secret Correspondence, was scheduled at v festivals in the Usa and Canada in the summer of 2020 earlier the Coronavirus canceled them.

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Source: https://texastheatres.org/fringe/

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