FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
Mark Spencer,
Director of Art & Theatre
219-588-9050
“The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933), classic short story by acclaimed Harlem-Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston is being adapted to film. “The Gilded Six-Bits”, written four years earlier than Hurston’s widely successful novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, tells the story of the blissful domestic life of two young newlyweds and shows the havoc that is wreaked when a seeming sophisticated outsider comes into the their small town of Eatonsville, Florida, and ultimately their lives.
The short story was adapted to screenplay by noted Chicago playwright David Barr III (“My Soul is a Witness”). Starring Ansa Akyea, Erynn MacKenzie, and Jim Anderson, the film is directed and produced by Mark Spencer, Director of Art and Theatre for the Gary Community School Corporation.
“The Gilded Six-Bits” will premiere on the following date:
Friday, March 17, 2006, 7:00 p.m.
West Side High School (Main Auditorium)
900 Gerry St.
Gary, In 46406
The film will premiere before recording artists, Boyz II Men, singing all of their classic songs of love.
For more information please visit the West Side Theatre Guild's website:
www.wstg.org |