Persuasion, A Queer Modern Farce by Lisa Quoresimo will get a one-day-only industry reading in NYC October 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The work is adapted from Jane Austen<\/a>‘s final novel, which centers on a woman who reunites with the love of her life 18 years after being persuaded to give him up. Quoresimo’s play updates the action to modern day, centering on a family of “fading television royalty,” per press notes.<\/p>\n The cast for the reading will be led by Jessica Phillips<\/a> and Jenn Colella<\/a>, and will also feature\u00a0Alma Cuervo<\/a>, Susan Lynskey, Jimin Moon<\/a>, Tom Nelis<\/a>, Salma Qarnain<\/a>, and Levin Valayil. Mindy Cooper<\/a> is directing.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a world full of modern Austen adaptations, we are missing one for the older, wiser lovers,\u201d say\u00a0Quoresimo and Cooper\u00a0in a joint statement. \u201cWe are excited to bring to life this comic tale of queer joy, and of love that comes when it is least expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persuasion, A Queer Modern Farce by Lisa Quoresimo will get a one-day-only industry reading in NYC October 23.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-360878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}