Saturday, December 10, 5:00 p.m. in the Forum.

Now That She’s Gone is a staged reading, written and performed by columnist and author of Beauty Bites Beast, Ellen Snortland. Now That She’s Gone is a play that explores Ellen Snortland’s often hilarious, irreverent and sometimes torturous relationship with her Norwegian-American mother. It has been described as a Lily Tomlin / Garrison Keillor hybrid… passionate, poignant and funny in turns. A memoir piece with Eleanor Roosevelt, sex, drugs and lutefisk, the play and performance has received rave reviews and standing ovations. Now That She’s Gone was performed as a staged reading from 2006–2008. There is no charge. A freewill donation will be collected for future scholarships for Theatre Ministry events.

“Ellen says I’m the ‘grandmother’ of this play, but I’m not crazy enough to think that it was my planting of a seed when in fact it is her enormous talent… She has a gift for being serious and funny, making you laugh and understand at the same time. The first time I saw it, I brought two friends who were visiting New York City from Kenya — a mother and a daughter — to see it, and they loved it too; it’s universal.” — Gloria Steinem, feminist, journalist, political and social activist

Information = Melissa Hayes at mhayes@allsaints-pas.org.