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THEATRE
Mint
PREVIEWS
September 27 - October 6, 2002
OPENS
October 7, 2002
CLOSES
October 27, 2002
PERFORMANCES
Tue - Thu at 7pm; Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sat & Sun at 2pm
TICKETS
$19 during previews
$35 thereafter
212-315-0231
CAST
Christopher Franciosa, Kristin Griffith, Benjamin Howes, Karl
Kenzler, Becky London, Lee Moore, Troy Schremmer, Harmony Schuttler,
Michele Tauber, Pauline Tully, Bruce Ward, Alice White
AUTHOR
St. John Hankin
DIRECTOR
Gus Kaikkonen |
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The Charity That
Began at Home
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The Charity That Began at Home is a play by St.
John Hankin, who was one of the most admired comic writers of the
Edwardian Era in England, but is virtually unknown today. It shouldn't
surprise you that this play is the latest discovery of the Mint Theater's
Jonathan Bank, who is giving this comedy a belated New York debut some 96
years after its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
The Charity That Began at Home tells the story
of how one family's all-consuming commitment to kindness has awful and
amusing consequences that turn their household upside down. Guided by the
principles of the "Church of Humanity," Lady Denison and her daughter
Margery write letters for orphans, visit the sick, tolerate incorrigible
servants, and invite the most disagreeable, boring and ill-tempered people
they can find to stay with them, because "it's not people deserve but what
they want that matters. In fact," says the Church's charming founder Basil
Hylton, "often the less people deserve the more we ought to help
them--they need it more."
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