originally published: 10/25/2022
(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- From Downton to darkest Peru to Montclair! Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is excited to welcome Hugh Bonneville, beloved actor in Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington, to talk about his memoir Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru, on Tuesday November 15, 2022 at 7:00pm.
Hugh will be in conversation with CBS News’ senior correspondent Jim Axelrod. This is one of three events that Hugh is doing in the US and an NJ exclusive!
Whether telling stories of working with divas, Dames, or a bear with a penchant for marmalade, Hugh creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. A wickedly funny storyteller, Hugh also writes about his upbringing and the secret he learned about his mother after her death. You won't want to miss this night of laughs as Hugh entertains with stories of his life as an actor!
The event will take place at Temple Ner Tamid, 936 Broad St, Bloomfield. Tickets cost $35 and include a signed copy of the book. Tickets are available for purchase online. Hugh will be signing books after the event.
S2G’s Montclair Literary Festival is the premier literary festival in New Jersey. Since its inception six years ago, the festival has seen its in-person and online audiences increase to 7500 in 2021. Previous attendees have included Trevor Noah, Patti Smith, Malcolm Gladwell, Isabel Allende, Henry Winkler, Douglas Stuart, Don Lemon, Jane Fonda, Paul Krugman, Erik Larson, Colm Tóibín, Alan Cumming, Min Jin Lee, Chelsea Clinton, Salman Rushdie, and Paul Auster.
Montclair-based Succeed2gether launched S2G’s Montclair Literary Festival in 2017 to promote literacy and reading for all, and to celebrate reading, literature, and Montclair’s vibrant and diverse literary scene. S2G’s Montclair Literary Festival raises funds and awareness for the work of Succeed2gether, a non-profit organization that addresses unequal access to educational resources by providing free, high-quality enrichment and academic programs and a post-high-school pathway to children in need from Montclair and Essex County, New Jersey.
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