Fall 2008 Cultural Program Presents "The Castle" — An Off Broadway Play

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Immediate: November 5, 2008Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 e-mail: alicia.steger@ncc.edu

The Nassau Community College Fall 2008 Cultural Program Presents "The Castle" — An Off Broadway Play December 3

Garden City, NY The Nassau Community College Fall 2008 Cultural Program is proud to present The Castle, an Off Broadway play about four formerly imprisoned New Yorkers. The Castle will be performed on Wednesday, December 3 at 12:30 p.m. in the College Center Building.The Castle is about four formerly imprisoned New Yorkers with a total of seventy years of incarceration among them. These individuals relate their journeys of crime, privation and redemption found at the Castle, a residence operated by the Fortune Society. The players in The Castle Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Angel Ramos, Casimiro Torres and Kenneth Harrigan created the show with David Rothenberg, a former press agent on Broadway who started the Fortune Society in 1967 to lend a hand to people coming home from prison. The Castle is a unique, inspirational drama.

For more information about the performance of The Castle, which is free and open to the public, call 516.572.7153.

About Nassau Community College

Nassau Community College, a division of the State University of New York, is an institution where over 22,000 full- and part-time students and 14,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 60 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

 

 

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