Glenn Close at The Bedford Playhouse

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Glenn Close at The Bedford Playhouse, Cocktails, Q&A & Screening of The Wife: Legendary screen actress, Glenn Close joins the Bedford Playhouse, home of The Clive Davis Art Center, for this exclusive cocktail party fundraiser and screening of her forthcoming film, The Wife on Monday, July 30 at 6pm. The cocktail party that begins at 6pm features hors d’oeuvres and two specialty libation, The Fatal Attraction and The Big Chill, so named in tribute to Ms. Close’s most iconic performances.

The party will be followed by a preview screening of her much anticipated new film, The Wife, in the playhouse’s luxurious new main theater. After the screening, Playhouse founder John Farr will moderate a Q&A with Ms. Close to discuss the film and her storied career. General admission is $30 and includes the Q&A following the screening. VIP tickets to the cocktail party range from $150 to $250. Seating is extremely limited, so act now!

In The Wife, which will open in theaters on August 3, Ms. Close portrays a Joan Castleman, a woman at the breaking point after a 40 year marriage of compromise, sacrifice and turning the other cheek to the infidelities of her soon to be Nobel Prize for Literature-winning husband played by Jonathan Pryce. In the after glow of his grand achievement, as the couple victory laps from awards night to cocktail party to the media circuit, the “regal-compose wife who keeps the trains running on time”, begins to unload the past on a “relentlessly insinuating” journalist played by Christian Slater. That’s when the ties unbind!

The Wife, which debuted at The Toronto Film Festival in September, 2017 is directed by Bjorn Runge from an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel of the same name. Co-stars include Elizabeth McGovern and Max Irons. After Toronto, the film traveled to the Zurich Film Festival where Ms. Close received the festival’s Golden Icon Award for lifetime achievement.

The Hollywood Reporter called Ms. Close’s performance “extraordinary” while The Guardian said she was “unreadably brilliant.”Julie Miller of Vanity Fair called The Wife, the film that could finally win Glenn Close an Oscar. “Close wordlessly articulates “the tragedy” of generations of overlooked some,” she wrote.

Close, one of Hollywood’s most nominated actresses has never won an Academy Award. She has been nominated six times. Three times for Best Supporting Actress for The World According to Garp (her debut performance in 1982), The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984). She later received Best Actress nominations for Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Albert Nobbs (2011). Only Richard Burton (7) and Peter O’Toole (8) have received more Oscar-noms without a win.

Glenn Close at The Bedford Playhouse (Bedford Playhouse, 633 Old Post Rd., Bedford: www.bedfordplayhouse.org)