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The Fresno premiere
performance of the one-man play, “Confessions of a Nightingale,” is
scheduled Jan. 18 and 19 on the stage of the Wahlberg Recital Hall at
California State University, Fresno’s Music Building.
Alumnus Albert Ash stars in the production, based on the conversations
of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams from Charlotte
Chandler’s 1984 book “The Ultimate Seduction.” “Confessions of a
Nightingale” was adapted for the stage by Chandler and Ray Stricklyn.
Williams is best known for “The Glass Menagerie,” “Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof,” “Night of the Iguana,” The Rose Tattoo,” “Suddenly, Last Summer”
and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” all of which were adapted for the
screen. The Mississippi-born Williams died in New York in 1983.
Ash (known as Albert Cirimele when he attended Fresno State) was trained
as a mime by the late Marcel Marceau in Paris. He co-wrote and
co-produced the movie “FairyTale: A True Story” in 1997 and has appeared
in “Date with and Angel” (1987), did voice-overs for “Down and Out with
Donald Duck” (1987) and “Lord of the Rings” (1978) and played in TV’s
“Law & Order” (1986). He lives in Fresno.
Both performances of “Confessions of a Nightingale” begin at 7:30 p.m.
and are free, but seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served
basis. Because of explicit language, admission will be limited to those
18 and older.
On-campus sponsors include Dr. Edward EmanuEl (Department of Theatre
Arts), USU Productions and the College of Arts and Humanities’
Departments of English and Music.
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