Saturday, September 13 at 2pm at the Byrdcliffe Theater
Stephen Temperly
Reading from SONGBOOK - a new novel by Stephen Temperley
Join novelist, playwright and actor, STEPHEN TEMPERLEY at the Byrdcliffe theatre on Saturday August 13th at 2pm when Stephen Temperly will read from his new novel SONGBOOK.
SONGBOOK is a novel by the author of SOUVENIR, a play that was seen on Broadway, off-Broadway, across the country, and the world—and at last year’s Festival of the Voice.
SONGBOOK is based on Temperly's new play of the same name. The novel is a work that is approaching completion. Spanning the years 1920 to 2010, it is centered on a cabaret singer and the people whose lives interact with his. Though the singer, Sam Arnott, is fictitious, his Manhattan is not. He moves through a world inhabited by real people in real places, who go to real bars and see real shows. Sam’s life and work are focussed on the belief that the popular songs of the American Songbook—the songs he chooses to sing—convey ideas and emotions that otherwise we don’t have the words to express. The novel is constructed as a series of interlocking stories that circle through time as the characters meet and lose each other, sometimes to find each other again but more often not.
Stephen Temperley has worked as an actor in London’s West End, on Broadway and off, and in many regional theatres both in the US and UK as well as television and film appearances.
The author will read a couple of chapters.
Join novelist, playwright and actor, STEPHEN TEMPERLEY at the Byrdcliffe theatre on Saturday August 13th at 2pm when Stephen Temperly will read from his new novel SONGBOOK.
SONGBOOK is a novel by the author of SOUVENIR, a play that was seen on Broadway, off-Broadway, across the country, and the world—and at last year’s Festival of the Voice.
SONGBOOK is based on Temperly's new play of the same name. The novel is a work that is approaching completion. Spanning the years 1920 to 2010, it is centered on a cabaret singer and the people whose lives interact with his. Though the singer, Sam Arnott, is fictitious, his Manhattan is not. He moves through a world inhabited by real people in real places, who go to real bars and see real shows. Sam’s life and work are focussed on the belief that the popular songs of the American Songbook—the songs he chooses to sing—convey ideas and emotions that otherwise we don’t have the words to express. The novel is constructed as a series of interlocking stories that circle through time as the characters meet and lose each other, sometimes to find each other again but more often not.
Stephen Temperley has worked as an actor in London’s West End, on Broadway and off, and in many regional theatres both in the US and UK as well as television and film appearances.
The author will read a couple of chapters.