Love Arm'd Productions

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Love Arm'd - Aphra Behn and Her Pen

"On the stage, Karen Eterovich can convey more of the wit and vivacity of that unique and magnificent truth-teller than can be found on any page." --- Vivien Leone, Aphra Literary Magazine

The Off-Off Broadway Review has called Love Arm'd "informative and entertaining." As Aphra Behn, Karen Eterovich gives a crisp and passionate performance, brava!"  Five years ago Karen Eterovich was cast as Angelica Bianca in Aphra Behn's The Rover-- an event that would change her life forever. Since that time she has been developing Love Arm'd, Aphra Behn & Her Pen to bring this spectacular 17th-century author to vivid life. The play portrays a private evening with Aphra and her live-in lover, John Hoyle. It reveals their innermost secrets and reaches across the ages to inspire and amuse modern audiences.

Love Arm'd premiered as a featured presentation of Cosmic Leopard Productions Womenkind IV Festival in 1994. It has subsequently been performed Off-Off-Broadway at Theater Ten Ten, Womenkind V and VI in TriBeCa and the Mint Theatre in midtown Manhattan. Other New York City perfomances have taken place at Barnes & Noble Book Stores, The Merchant's House Museum, The Dramatists Guild and The Episcopal Actor's Guild.  Immensely popular with university audiences, the show has toured numerous institutions stateside including Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Ramapo College in New Jersey, Pace University, SUNY Cortland and the SUNY Institute of Technology.

Love Arm'd is a sponsored project of the Fertile Ground Seedling Project. Fertile Ground, Inc. serves artists and the public by fostering innovative theatrical visual and literary works through production, education, technical support and the development of new audiences. The Seedling Project provides a variety of services free of charge to emerging artists. These services include not-for-profit fiscal sponsorship for fundraising, publicity development, script development, and so on. Every dollar raised by Fertile Ground goes to supporting artists' projects.

Robert Edward Burns (Love Arm'd Director) (AEA, SAG, AFTRA) - Robert is a founding member of Fertile Ground, Inc., a not-for-profit artists collective. His recent projects include producing and directing a series of staged readings of new plays and a full production, Niagara Falls and So Do I, a solo performance piece by Gary Schiro at the Judith Anderson Theatre on Theatre Row. Other directing credits include the world premier of Four Baptist Girls by Daniel W. Fisher, Muzeeka by Frank Gagliano; and Children of the Corn, the Musical.