Leanna Marden: The Captain’s Lady (Staged Reading)
Writes Professor Lin Haire-Sargeant:
Leanna Marden wrote “The Captain’s Lady” as her second project in the Playwriting course I taught in fall 2019, and the play she chose to present in staged reading form for the course’s end-review festival. She told me she had been influenced by reading the Captain Horatio Hornblower novels by C.S. Forester, and decided to set her shipboard romantic comedy in the Napoleonic era–but with a 21st Century twist.
In the segment of rehearsal shown here, Rio Castaneda-Guthreau plays the Captain, Jameson Bernard plays his First-Mate-lover, Natalie Martinez plays the Captain’s lady disguised as the ship’s cook, and playwright Leanna Marden plays the would-be sailer lover of the Captain’s lady. Video by Leslie Pierre-Louis, Editing by Robert Gerst.
If it hadn’t been for the school’s virus shutdown, I would have nominated this play to be performed during the Creative Writing Expo. Too bad!