Theatre Production: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
Date and Time
Friday Apr 11, 2014 Saturday Apr 19, 2014
Location
Hollins University
Website
Description
A world premiere celebrating the 40th anniversary of Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Adapted and directed by Andy Belser. Take a walk with Annie Dillard along the creek beds, meadows, forests, and mountainsides that surround Hollins, and you may forever see the world differently. This multimedia theatrical odyssey aims to honor Dillard's glorious and exacting prose, while inviting the audience into dramatic moments of visionary imagery and sensations that reverberate with startling awareness. A Hollins Theatre Legacy Series production, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by one of Hollins’ most acclaimed writers, Annie Dillard (B.A. ’67, M.A. ’68). "You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home." Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." April 11-12, 16-19, 7:30 pm. April 13, 2 pm. Admission: $10 general, free to current Hollins students, faculty, and staff. Hollins University Theatre. www.hollins.edu/theatre