Join CENTERSTAGE on February 20, 2010 for a special book club for the play, Let There Be Love, written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, CENTERSTAGE Associate Artist.

Following the Saturday matinee performance, the Book Club participants will gather for a reception which includes a facilitated discussion about the book, the production, and how both relate to each other. Book Club participants will receive $10 off their ticket for the performance preceding the reception ($35/$25). Discount Code: CSBOOK10

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The book selection for this play will be The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. Ogawa is a prize-winning, critically acclaimed author from Japan. The Housekeeper and the Professor was a surprising critical and commercial success, being described as “deceptively elegant” (New York Times Book Review) and “strangely charming” (Washington Post). A detailed description of the story:

“Living quietly in a decrepit cottage in his sister-in-law’s backyard, a former mathematics professor solves old mathematical proofs and rattles off baseball statistics from 1975, the year a car accident robbed him of his ability to form new memories. He cannot retain any new, post-1975 memories for longer than 80 minutes. When a new housekeeper is hired to care for him, she must reintroduce herself every morning and endure the same barrage of questions day after day—one of the many aggravations that led nine housekeepers before her to quit in frustration. But she is determined to keep this job, and soon a friendship starts to form between her, her 10-year-old son, and her affable, if exasperating, charge.”
—Bookmarks Magazine

The selection will be available at the Ivy Bookshop on Falls Road with a 10% discount for Book Club participants. 

For more information, please contact Crystal L. Beasley at 410.986.4038 or by emailing at cbeasley@centerstage.org.