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Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:28PM Continuing its tradition of staging thought-provoking works, the Actor's Workshop of Ithaca Theater Company will present "Mitzi's Abortion: A Saint's Guide to Late-Term Politics and Medicine in America" this weekend at Risley Theatre on the Cornell University campus.
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:19PM “Mitzi’s Abortion,” put on by The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca, offers a humorous and moving exploration of the ethics, religion and politics of late-term abortion. Meet Mitzi (Dayna Joan), a 22-year-old with an army husband and a happy accident — a baby on the way. However, the news is quickly undermined by the discovery that the child will be born with a severe and fatal birth defect. Mitzi now faces the choice of whether to abort the baby or give birth to a child without a fully developed brain or skull.
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:15PM "We had a show last year with this publishing company called "Original Works in L.A.," and they only do original works. That's the only thing they publish," says VanCort. "And they contacted me and said, ‘No one will produce this play. I really want you to read this, and it's incredible.'
"I said, ‘What's it called?' and they said, Mitzi's Abortion. And I said, ‘I'm not doing this play. I just can't do another play with an unmarketable title.'"
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:09PM Edosomwan said, “There is no place better for me to begin my one-woman show. I am elated to begin the tour of the show on Cornell’s campus, with the Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca theater company where my journey as an actress began. I am incredibly passionate about the material. Hatshepsut was a woman before her time, ignored societal limitations, and went for the dream of being pharaoh.”
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:20PM In celebration of its 10th anniversary the Actors' Workshop of Ithaca will be performing Rabbit Hole, a 2005 play by David Lindsay-Abaire, about a couple that struggles to recover after their young son is in a fatal accident. Actor and director Jeremy Webb, who has known Eliza VanCort, the founder of the workshop, since they attended Boynton Middle School together, will direct.
The play includes a relationship between Becca, the grieving mother, and her younger sister. "This is really Katie's show," said VanCort of Katie Spallone, the lead actor in Rabbit Hole. "It's her story; she's in every scene."
"It's funny because we are," said Spallone looking at VanCort, "like sisters."
