2010-2011 Season
Please read up on our new season and come join us for a season full of laughs and pure entertainment. All shows are on a Friday and Saturday Night. Doors open at 7:30pm and the shows start at 8:00pm.
Summer Fairy Tale
Doc, Doc… Goose!
Written by: Patrick Rainville Dorn
Directed by: Richard Dresp
Audition Dates: June 1st & 2nd
Show Dates: July 9th, 10th**, 11th*, 16th, 17th**, & 18th*
Show times are: 7:00pm (Doors open @ 6:30pm)
*Indicate Matinee show starting at 2 pm.
** Indicate two shows 2 pm & 7 pm on July 10th & 17th
Just think about those old-fashioned nursery rhymes and it’s easy to see why Mother Goose went to medical school and opened up a clinic in Nursery land. There’s no “happily ever after” here! These poor nursery rhyme characters are plagued with freak accidents! A typical morning in Dr. Goose’s clinic includes a cow with a sore calf from moon-jumping, a crooked man wanting chiropractic adjustment, a daredevil who burns his seat jumping over candles and a blonde juvenile delinquent who breaks into bears’ houses. With the help of her assistant, Nurse Gosling, Dr. Goose even runs nutritional support groups and aerobics classes for a man who eats no fat and his opposite wife, a tea-guzzling girl named Polly and a Queen who craves tarts. But will Dr. Zhivago from Fairy Tale Land close down the clinic? There are three blind mice without tails who sure hope not! Fast-paced with slapstick humor and silly situations, this imaginative weaving of nursery rhymes with modern twists offers something audiences of all ages will enjoy!
The White Liars and Black Comedy
Written by: Peter Shaffer
Directed by: Vallerie Pallai
Audition Dates: July 19th & 20th
Show Dates: September 10th, 11th*, 17th, 18th, 24th, 25th , October 1st, & 2nd
(*Please note a special GALA performance will be held on Saturday September 11th…more information to follow
The White Liars
How many times have we told a lie, only to regret it later on? White Liars, written by British playwright Peter Shaffer, explores this commonly used literary theme and more.
Set in Grinmouth-on-Sea, a resort by the sea during 1940s, White Liars is a stark portrayal of how seemingly harmless lies can unleash a catastrophic chain of events, ultimately leaving its participants shaken and hurt.
Black Comedy
In one hilarious act, the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is the dark. Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Schuppanzigh. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.
Wait Until Dark
Written by: Frederick Knott
Directed by: Johannes S. Beals
Audition Dates: September 20th and 21st
Show Dates: November 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th, December 3rd, 4th, 10th & 11th
From the author of Dial 'M' for Murder comes one of the most famous thrillers of our time. The New York Post called it "a first-rate shocker!"
A cool-as-ice psychopath smooth talks his way into the home of an unsuspecting woman. Unbeknownst to Susie, she’s harboring a dangerous prize, and he’ll use every trick to get it. Spend an evening on the edge of your seat with the genre Hitchcock made classic. This psychological thriller probes which frightens us more – the evil you can see coming, or the one you can’t?
Doubt
Written by: John Patrick Shanley
Directed by: Stuart Wenger
Audition Dates: November 22nd and 23rd
Show Dates: February 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th & 26th
Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues.
“A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year’s ten best.” — Ben Brantley, New York Times
An Evening with David Ives
*Titles to be release soon*
Written by: David Ives
Produced by: Bob Larsen
Audition Dates: February 7th, and 8th
Show Dates: 29th, 30th, May 6th, 7th 13th, 14th, 20th & 21st
Experimental theatre at it’s best. An evening consisting of 4 or 5 of David Ives’ 1 Acts to be directed by multiple directors. More information will become available at a later date.