RICHARD PELLEGRINO in association with THE SIMON STUDIO presents “MARGINALIA” –
A special theatre/film event at THE PLAYERS CLUB.

A fully staged reading presentation of MARGINALIA

Director: Roger Hendricks Simon
Associate Director: Eddie Lew

Being filmed live by Dan Simon (“Lonely Boys” on Amazon.com) for future development into educational documentary, with live jazz musical accompaniment by Saxophonist Nick Green.

Q & A and a reception follows the performance.

Concerning the lives of doctors and their attempt to balance emotion with reason, the play has been developed in THE SIMON STUDIO’s Lab over the past five years. The studio previously presented “MARGINALIA” at regional stages in Little Rock, Arkansas and at John Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore with sponsorship and special funding from the Baptist Medical Foundation and John Hopkins.
The cast this time around features Roger Hendricks Simon (“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”, “Love in Kilnerry”), Lora Lee Ecobelli, (“The Cherry Orchard”, “Good People”) Robert S. Gregory (“The Dressmaker’s Secret” 59E59 Theater, HBO’s “Succession”), Michael Siktberg ( Million Dollar Quartet”, “The Alan Freed Story”) and Bo Corre (“3.31.93” by Lars Norén, “Homesick,” “Molly’s Dream”).

For ticket reservations, contact:
rhsstudio@gmail.com.

PLEASE NOTE: Dress code required for admission to the Players.

The Art of Medicine in association with The Simon Studio showcased the human side of medicine in a staged reading of Richard Pellegrino’s Marginalia at The Players Club. The title itself provides a thought-provoking premise — that what’s written in the margins is often more important than the actual text. Dr. Tony Baldino (Roger Simon) goes about his routine as a doctor in a hospital, dispensing good and bad news, test results information, and scientific facts. But Dr. Baldino holds his own secret, from his wife no less: he himself is a patient with a grim diagnosis. Pellegrino explores much more than what might typically stem out of such a scenario – more than just a doctor becoming the patient and forced to face the other side of the experience. An epiphany that “hope equals pain” becomes the play’s through line, a note that Dr. Baldino had scribbled in the margins of his note paper that was unintentionally seen by a dying patient of his. The play provides not only the viewpoint of patients and their families, but also the doctor’s perspective in such scenarios, conveying that a doctor must remain seemingly emotionally detached in order to keep a steady and clear mind; as one ch …Read more