This month's stories - one acerbically witty and the other tenderly romantic - explore Britain's long and complex fascination with Egypt and its treasures. Drop by at 6:45pm for musical selections performed by pianist Jeanne Walpole. Readings start at 7:15pm.
Attend in person at the beautiful Berkeley City Club or online at: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97009762913.
Pyramid Schemes
"A Long Night at Abu Simbel"
by Penelope Lively
A tour guide reaches the end of her tether and abruptly abandons her cantankerous English travellers. Now, they must manage a bewildering and decidedly non-British landscape on their own. Penelope Lively's razor-sharp observations of a cross-section of English tourists under duress - Egyptian-style - offer a darkly comic tour de force of the joys and hazards of foreign tourism.
Read by Rica Anderson and directed by Lori Gieleghem.
"Sphinx"
by Alexander McCall Smith
A young Scotswoman's love of Egyptian antiquities leads her to a chance meeting with the man she realizes she's been waiting for all her life. But then, he disappears into the vast metropolis of London. In the months that follow, Margaret realizes she must make a fateful choice between settling for a secure and predictable life, or believing in hope and the mysterious revelations of the past.
Read by Tom Reilly and directed by Lori Gieleghem.
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