"NAKED" Secrets Play Peek-a-Boo

The cast for "Naked Came the Painting," a one act comedy by LindaAnn Loschiavo, has been rehearsing during October in Manhattan's theatre district.
• • In the cast are: Lila Smith (as MEREDITH), Katherine Mylenki (as AMELIA), and David A. Green (as Mr. ZIMBATATTA).
• • Shela Xoregos directs.
• • In the play, the character AMELIA, now a widow, has a subversive back-story.  During her marriage, she maintained a secret love affair with DAVID, an artist.  DAVID paints AMELIA in the nude several times as well as young MEREDITH.  Is MEREDITH his daughter?  Why does DAVID commit suicide after AMELIA is widowed?  She wears her frisky past as lightly as a vintage stole of fox tails — — but her secrets are about to be exposed.

• • • • Kees Van Dongen • • • •
• • Born near Rotterdam, Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen [1877 — 1968], usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous and sometimes garish portraits.
• • In 1892, at age 16, Kees van Dongen started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. During this period [1892 — 1897], van Dongen frequented the Red Quarter seaport area, where he drew scenes of sailors and prostitutes.
• • During 1897 he was living in Paris for most of the year.  In December 1899 he returned to Paris to join Augusta Preitinger ("Guus"), whom he had met at the Academy. They wed on July 11, 1901; the would divorce in 1921. He began to exhibit in Paris, including the controversial 1905 exhibition Salon d'Automne, in a room featuring Henri Matisse amongst others. The vivid colors used by this group of artists led to their nickname "Fauves" (i.e., Wild Beasts).
• • Under the influence of Jasmy Jacob, among others, Kees van Dongen developed the lush palette of his Fauvist style along with a bohemian eroticism that accents his earlier artwork. This gained him a solid reputation with the French bourgeoisie, which was profitable.  As a fashionable portraitist his subjects included Arletty, Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Barthou, Sacha Guitry, Anna de Noailles, and Maurice Chevalier. With a playful cynicism, he commented on his popularity as a portraitist of high society women:  "The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished." Another quote attributed to him is "Painting is the most beautiful of lies."
• • In addition to marketing his paintings, Kees van Dongen also earned money by selling satirical sketches to the newspaper 'Revue Blanche' and organizing very successful costume balls in Montparnasse.
• • The "bohemian era" canvasses of Kees Van Dongen — — see two of his nudes from 1905 and 1906 here — —continue to inspire the playwright.
• • This spirited three-character comedy — — that explores the boundaries between art and artifice — — will make its debut at the 2010 Harvest One-Act Play Festival.  Variations Theatre Group will offer performances between November 10th — 20th, 2010 at the recently renovated LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y.

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• • First performance dates and times have been announced by Variations Theatre Group for the sprightly one-act comedy "Naked Came the Painting" by LindaAnn Loschiavo.
• • FIRST DATE:  Wednesday, 10 November 2010 — — 7:00 PM
• • SECOND DATE:  Saturday, 13 November 2010 — — 9:15 PM
• • POSSIBLE DATES:  November 18th — 20th.
• • WHERE: LABA Theatre, 344 East 14th Street, NYC 10003.
• • WHAT: 2010 Harvest One-Act Play Festival
• • Subway: Union Square Station/ IRT Lexington, 4, 5, 6; First Avenue Station / L line
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• • PHONE: 646-400-3253 to get ticket information
• • TICKETS  $15; Buy Tix Online — — http://www.variationstheatregroup.com

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