Theatre Schedule
2009-2010 season
Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas - October
8-11, 2009
Jack and Charley have both fallen desperately in love with Kitty and
Amy… and they haven’t confessed their love yet. They invite the ladies
to meet Charley's wealthy aunt from Brazil, who cancels her visit at the
last minute. What do they do now? The problem is solved by drafting
their pal into a black satin skirt, bloomers and wig. As "Charley's
Aunt", this charming frump is introduced to the ladies, to Jack's father
and to Stephen Spettigue, Amy's guardian. When the real aunt turns up,
classic comic confusion ensues.
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel - December 3-6, 2009
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This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out
their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the
time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the
harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. The action of the play is told
through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he
remembers the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving
for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the
young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire
their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic
women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets
his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up
the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the
fields.
Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh -
March 4-7, 2010
Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, THE
CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of
Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood
director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of
Inishmore to film MAN OF ARAN, the one person who wants to be in the
film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away
from the bitter tedium of his daily life.
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder by Mark Medoff -
April 22-25, 2010
The scene is an all-night diner in a sleepy southwestern town when the
night attendant, young Stephen (Red) Ryder, is about to turn his duties
over to his daytime counterpart, Angel. Her friend Lyle stops by for
breakfast, followed by an affluent young couple en route to New Orleans.
With the arrival of another couple, Teddy and Cheryl, the existing calm
quickly vanishes. Teddy begins to taunt and then bully the others in the
diner. With black, sardonic humor he gets at each in turn, stripping
away their pretensions and exposing their innermost secrets and fears.
For each a searing moment of truth has been faced and, in a deeper
sense, they know that they have been changed more than they would have
the desire, or perhaps courage, to admit.
Curtain Times:
Thursday - Saturday house opens at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30.
Sunday Matinee house opens at 1:30 p.m. and the show begins at 2:00 p.m.
(EXCEPTION: The December 6 & April 25 shows will begin at 1:00 p.m.)
