Country Editor Presented by Bruce Howard Goodrich

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Adapted for the stage and performed by Bruce Howard Goodrich

Published in 1940, COUNTRY EDITOR, A Yankee editor’s story of his work, his town and its people, became one of the top Armed Services Editions titles, out of a total of 1334, each printed in compact editions for American Servicemen, between 1943-1947.

An evocation of an analog world gone by, this charming memoir brings to life small town, Eastern seaboard life, in all of its pluck, eccentricity, community spirit, humor and compassion.

“It surprises me to hear large places referred to as towns, for in New England a town is never of any size. A town is almost always old, whereas a city is most likely to be new. A city belongs to an era, but a town belongs to all the time, which has existed since it began.”

Presented by Bruce Goodrich

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
As a scenic and costume designer, Bruce has designed many shows for the Chance, as well as New York and regionally. On stage at the Chance he has appeared in Tribes and the final iteration of The Reindeer Monologues. Other roles, over the years, include a wide range, from Clove in Beckett’s Endgame, Zauberkönig in Odon Von Horvath’s Tales from the Vienna Woods, taking place at the eve of the Austrofacist takeover in the late 1930s, the Captain and Hennessy in Dames at Sea, and a Member of Parliament in Laura Wade’s Posh, among many others. He is the screenwriter for Mapplethorpe, about photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, starring Matt Smith, developed at Sundance Labs and directed by Ondi Timoner and released by Sony Pictures Classics. Bruce is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, BFA, and Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama, MFA, and has served on the Design and Production faculties of Williams College, Montclair State College, and CSU, Fullerton (Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance).