Friday November 18, 2005

The Cigarette Papers, written and performed by poet Richard Cambridge

7:00 – 8:30pm, Book King, 94 Merchants Row, Rutland

Free and open to the public

A 20 year, 2 pack-a-day smoker quits. All hell breaks loose. Poet Richard Cambridge wrestles with the Marlboro man, the Dullards, the Cookie Monster, and finally, with God.

The Cigarette Papers is a powerful, intimate, one-man portrayal of addiction and the search for spiritual fulfillment, written and performed by the winner of the ’97 Master’s Poetry Slam and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize.

Richard has performed this piece for the American Society of Addiction Medicine's Nicotine Dependence Conference to rave reviews. He has also performed The Cigarette Papers at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston for the general public, Boston University's Playwrights Theater, and Little Flags Theater in Cambridge. He continues to work with various smoking cessation groups, universities and the medical community.

Reviews of The Cigarette Papers:

A tour-de-force! The Boston Globe

Compelling. Provocative. Engaging. The Cigarette Papers is probably the best creative oral piece on the subject of addiction in contemporary literary history. Thomas Rain Crowe, Publisher, Fern Hill Records

A serial of Admission— excruciating, labored, hilarious and in its neatest deft reversal— breathtaking. Cambridge gives the audience nowhere to hide. Poet as grieving prowler along the ragged edge of willful self-cleansing. A fable of commonest addiction, faced. Ralph La Charity, Editor, W'Orc Allowed

I have never heard a better description of the anguish of addiction as in The Cigarette Papers. —Georgeanne Hoegerman, MD,American Academy of Addiction Medicine

A stunning, bravura performance! Larry Francis, The Hiedelberg

Fascinating! Marion Woodman, Author, "Addiction to Perfection"

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