On Thursday, June 26, there will be a workshop reading of "Untitled Houdini Project" by Jen Silverman as part of the 2025 Profile Theatre Playwright Festival in Portland. Silverman is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with an impressive background and credits. It's exciting to see a new young voice taking on Houdini.
In the winter and spring of 1926, Harry Houdini was summoned to a hearing before the House of Representatives to testify on behalf of a new bill that would make acts of fortune telling illegal.The newest project by playwright Jen Silverman takes as its starting point the exact transcript for these Congressional hearings, while weaving in thrilling theatrical séance sequences, and the growing complexity of Houdini's relationship with Rose Mackenberg, Houdini's chief investigator.
Are we to be a country of cold hard facts, scientific data, and honesty? Are we to be a country of comforting possibilities, where the boundary between the living and the dead is crossable if the right guides are permitted to take you? What does it mean to argue over the character of a nation in 1926 And, of course, what does it mean to do that right now?
You can buy tickets to the reading on Eventbrite.
Thanks to D.R. Schreiber, The Historical Conjurer, for the tip.
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