Directed Reading – THROUGH THE SANDS OF TIME starring John Hickok

Through The Sands of Time by award-winning dramatist, Cynthia L. Cooper and directed by Sal Trapani, is a one-person play featuring Broadway actor John Hickok in the title role. The play is based on The Outermost House, the memoir of naturalist writer Henry Beston who chronicled the year he spent living in a small house in the dunes of Wellfleet in the late 1920’s.  In the play, Henry, a veteran of WWI, has become overwhelmed with anxiety that today would be diagnosed as PTSD. For solace, he turns to nature. As the seasons unfold, Henry describes his encounters with the rhythms of nature on the Outer Cape beaches and dunes: the waves, the winds, and the wild creatures. John Hickok’s superb solo performance of Cynthia Cooper’s outstanding play resonates with current concerns about climate change as it affects those of us who live and work near the sea. Director Sal Trapani is a long-time summer resident and charter boat captain in Montauk. As a theatre director, he has earned numerous distinctions. He is a full professor of theatre at Western Connecticut State University.