2011-12 Theatre Arts Schedule

Present Laughter by Noel Coward
October 5, 6, 8 and 9 - Cast List, Photo Gallery

Garry Essendine, a popular and pampered actor, is busily making preparations for an extended overseas tour with devoted secretary Monica. His plans are complicated first by Daphne, a beautiful stage struck ingénue as well as a fatuously ardent aspiring playwright Roland Maule, who insist on his attentions. When his wife, his agents and his numerous admirers arrive, Garry is hard pressed to escape. Typical of Coward's sparkling dialogue and dazzling wit, Garry finesses the mounting and potentially embarrassing social faux pas and flees the chaos on his own terms.

 

Almost, Maine by John Cariani - December 1-4 - Cast List, Photo Gallery

On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.

 

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - December 9-10 - Cast List

The absurdist classic about "two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives." Directed by Senior Josh Kirby. Admission is free.

 

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams - March 1-4 - Cast List, Photo Gallery

This Tennessee Williams classic reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by her earthy husband, Stanley Kowalski, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion.

 

The Foreigner by Larry Shue - April 19-22 - Cast List, Photo Gallery

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations.

 

 

Curtain Times:

Thursday - Saturday house opens at 7:00 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30.
Sunday Matinee house opens at 1:00 p.m. and the show begins at 1:30 p.m.