ANNOUNCING The American premiere of SIXTEEN WORDS FOR WATER (a play about Ezra Pound) by Billy Marshall Stoneking. Directed by Byam Stevens with a Tony-award-winning cast. Opens 5th July, 2000, at the Miniature Theatre of Chester, Massachusetts (in the Berkshires). 1958 - St. Elizabeth's, a hospital for the criminally insane. Ezra Pound, indicted in 1943 for making anti-American broadcasts over Italian radio, pled insanity, and has spent the last 13 years incarcerated. Faced with the ultimate choice - prove himself sane and face trial and a possible death sentence, or maintain his insanity and remain at St. Elizabeth's, he is confronted with a curious yet strangely familiar Aboriginal myth. A witty and dramatic examination of a man torn between the wealth of his imagination and the poverty of his politics. A hit in both England and Australia, now in the U.S. for the first time. For more details, re: booking. location, etc. see... The Miniature Theatre of Chester, Massachusetts: http://www.miniaturetheatre.org/ Also, visit Billy Marshall Stoneking's website at http://stoneking.org