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Corky Laing’s rock opera short to screen in Greenport

by Vera Chinese on May 24th, 2014
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Playing God will screen at Aldo’s on Sunday evening. (Credit: courtesy photo)

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Mountain drummer and Greenport resident Corky Laing will screen a 20 minute short of his new rock opera “Playing God” in Greenport on Sunday. 

Playing God was created by Finnish bioethicists Matti Hayry and Tuija Takala along with Laing to reflect on the dangers of trying to genetically engineer a perfect child.

Laing wrote and performs the rock opera’s music along with his group, Corky Laing is the Perfct Child.

The short will screen at Aldo’s in Greenport on Sunday, May 25 at 8 p.m. Takala and Laing will discuss the film at the Greenport coffee shop following the screening. The event is free.

The rock opera will premiere at the Danny Kay Theatre in New York City in spring of 2015.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

Aldo's Corky Laing Greenport

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