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Olive Kitteridge

littleman"...as twisting, rocky and refreshing as a Maine river,"
-Robert Hurwitt, the San Francisco Chronicle
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"Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force: Olive Kitteridge,
who... barks at anyone foolish enough to irritate her. You loathe this woman at the book's beginning; you long for her at it's finish."
-The New Yorker

 


WORD FOR WORD presents

OLIVE KITTERIDGE
the stories "Tulips" and "River"
by Elizabeth Strout
directed by Joel Mullennix

"It baffled her, the world... she did not understand it."

Prickly Olive Kitteridge, navigating life’s unpredictable turns, lurches through several outrageous encounters, and is surprised by joy.

with
Patricia Silver*, Nancy Shelby*, Warren David Keith*
Paul Finocchiaro, Jeri Lynn Cohen*, Michelle Bellaver
Patrick Alparone*

stage manager
David A. Young*

design team
Tucki Bailey, Jim Cave, Laura Hazlett, Jacquelyn Scott, David Szlasa, Andrea Weber

production manager
James Faerron

*member, Actor's Equity

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  Olive Kitteridge is published by Random House
pictured: Patricia Silver; photography by Mark Leialoha

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