Duke To Perform ‘Giver’ At The Bing

Patty Duke and her neighbor, Broadway producer Laura Little, had been looking for projects to work on together. But it didn’t prove to be an easy task for the two Coeur d’Alene women. “We kept coming up with one-woman plays that just didn’t hit me right,” Duke said. “Then one day she said, ‘Are you aware of a book named ‘The Giver’? And I’m ashamed to say I wasn’t.” So she downloaded a copy of Lois Lowry’s 1993 Newberry Award-winning novel about an 11-year-old boy, Jonas, who must choose to conform to his dystopian society’s expectations for him or flee. Duke – whose legal name is Anna Pearce – stayed up all night reading. “I was hooked.” And now Little and Duke are teaming up with director Patrick Treadway to present a reading of a stage adaptation of Lowry’s novel, with proceeds to benefit the Bing/ Carolyn Lamberson , SR. More here. (SR photo)

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