Book Launch Party! Celebrating Abby Paige & David Budbill

It's A Book Launch Party!
Join us on Thursday, May 15 at 7pm!

A Grand Celebration of two, hot-off-the-press Vermont books that have great meaning
for Lost Nation Theater.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abby Paige -  collaborator as actor & playwright with Lost Nation Theater since her first show: David Budbill's Judevine in 2007.
and LNT premiered Abby's most recent solo show: Les Filles du Quoi? in 2022! LNT presented Piecework: When We Were French (and hosted the filming of it by Jeff Farber) back in 2012. 
These two fabulous works have just been published by the University of Maine Press.
Look for Abby next onstage with LNT in The Revolutionists - running June 5-15.

David Budbill's Judevine - LNT has mounted 3 productions of Judevine since 2007 - the most recent being in 2017. LNT also premiered David Budbill's Little Acts of Kindness in 1993, and presented a staged reading of Thing World 'back in the day' - LNT's history with Budbill's work goes back a long way!  Judevine - as a book of poems has just been re-issued by Rootstock Publishing.

So Let's Party!
Fun! Festivities! Poetry! Theater! Commmunity & Conversation!
And it's free!

NOTE: The Corporate Cup Race is also Thursday, May 15th. It starts at 6pm.
You will likely need to allow extra time to get to LNT/Montpelier City Hall Arts Center. The route avoids Main Street - but State Street and parts of Route 2 (Memorial Drive) are part of the race course.
(We've included the course map below)

Judevine: A Love Song for a Place & Its People by VT poet and playwright David Budbill (1940-2016) in a new and revised edition of iconic poems and stories about an overlooked Northern Vermont town and its inhabitants. Judevine is a raucous and moving collection that resonates to this day with its enduring themes of rural poverty, injustice, and economic and social struggle.
LNT has mounted three productions of the stage adaptation of Judevine, all directed by LNT founder Kim Bent.

Piecework / Travail à la pièce by VT playwright and performer Abby Paige is a bilingual collection of her two plays.
This landmark publication of Paige's solo works and their French translations offers unique insight into the Franco American experience and the long, often-invisible history of the borderlands between francophone Canada and northern New England. LNT was proud to mount the world premiere of Abby's Les Filles Du Quoi?! in 2022 and Piece Work When We Were French early on in its history too.

Sponsored and hosted by Lost Nation Theater, this FREE event will feature theatrical readings and performances.
 
Join Nadine Budbill, Kim Bent, Abby Paige, and other beloved LNT Judevine actors Mark S. Roberts, Robert Nuner, and Ben Ash for an evening of poetry, place, conversation, and community!
Thursday, May 15 at 7pm in Lost Nation Theater Lobby Cabaret

To Get the Live Stream,  email boxoffice@lostnationtheater.org with Launch Live Stream in the subject line by 4:30pm Thu May 15th!
IT'S FREE!  (Donations gratefully accepted.)
No need to reserve, just come to the door!

Thanks to our performers, the publishers, and volunteers like Andrea Stander for making this event possible.

HERE'S THE CORPORATE CUP COURSE MAP: