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 Anne is working on a full-length version of My Tiger, My Love, called The Tiger Play. It explores the life of headlining tiger tamer Mabel Stark, through her relationships with Louis Roth, who taught her how to tame the big cats; Al G. Barnes, circus owner, who gave Mabel her first job; and Rajah, her favorite tiger.
For the past year, Anne has been rewriting and researching the play. She’s read Stark’s autobiography (“Hold that Tiger”) Roth’s (“40 Years with Jungle Killers”) and Barnes’ (“Al G. Barnes: Master Showman”), and made her second trip to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Anne doesn’t know what she’d do without alibris.com and the New York Public Library. In March 2012, she was fortunate enough to interview animal trainer Eric Weld, co-owner of Hollywood Animals (www.hollywoodanimals.com), about his tiger experiences.
The Tiger Play was selected as part of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s anniversary festival (www.theatrewomen.org). On Friday, September 21st, there will be a special reading of The Tiger Play for League members at Open Source Gallery (http://open-source-gallery.org), 306 17th Street (near Sixth Avenue) in Brooklyn. The reading will be directed by Tamara Fisch, and feature Cotton Wright as Mabel Stark, and Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum as Rajah. There will be a second reading of the play on Saturday, September 22nd.
Pictured are Cotton Wright as Mabel, and Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum as Rajah.
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