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X*ACT 2008/2009
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Barefoot in the Park, by Neil Simon |
| September 5,6,12,13,14
2008 |
Newlyweds Paul
and Corie Paul Bratter, move into a
fifth-floor walkup in a Manhattan
brownstone. In addition to married life,
Paul, a straight-laced attorney, and free
spirited Corie must contend with lack of
heat, a skylight with a gaping hole, several
flights of stairs, oddball neighbor Victor
Velasco, and Corie's well-meaning mother.
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The Woman In Black, by Stephen Mallatratt |
| October 24,25,31 November
1 2008 |
An old-fashioned
ghost story that is guaranteed to scare you.
The play is frightening without being
gruesome. Arthur Kipps, a London solicitor,
employs a young actor to help him tell the
story that has haunted him since his youth,
in an attempt to exorcise the spirit that
troubles him. As a young lawyer, he was sent
to the tiny town of Crythin Gifford to
settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow,
one of his firm's oldest clients, after her
death. As the play unfolds, the audience is
drawn further and further into Kipps' story,
experiencing the horror of it along with
him.
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Cinderella Waltz, by Don Nigro |
| January 16,17,23,24
2009 |
| A "fairy tale for adults." This
hilarious play is a fractured retelling of the Cinderella story
with a twist and a surprise ending. Characters include the
Cinderella figure (Rosey Snow), her flawed stepsisters (Goneril
and Regan), her abusive stepmother, a wacky fairy godmother,
Rosey's confused father, the Village Idiot (who may be less
idiotic than he appears), the Prince and the Prince's servant,
Troll (whether or not he is a troll is not clear). |
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Boy Gets Girl, by Rebecca Gilman |
| March 6,7,13,14 2009 |
| A frightening play about a New
York career woman who accepts a blind date with Mr. Wrong.
Theresa reluctantly agrees to a friend’s insistence that she
meet Tony, a computer technician. When Theresa realizes early on
that she is just not interested in pursuing a relationship with
Tony, she tells him so immediately as gently and courteously as
anyone possibly could. However, from the gentle and innocuous
appearing Tony, there slowly emerges a much darker, obsessive
and disturbed creature who will wreak havoc on Theresa’s life
and psyche. Gilman’s play functions on two levels. It is both a
thriller, and a discourse on gender politics.
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Harvey, by Mary Chase |
| April 17, 18,24,25,26 2009 |
| Won the 1945
Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is a carefree, take your
mind off your worries comedic work. The story is about Elwood P.
Dowd, a good natured, mild-mannered eccentric. Elwood has one
problematic character trait: his best friend is an invisible
six-foot-tall rabbit, Harvey. Elwood’s sister tries to have
Elwood committed to the sanitarium, where the behavior of the
psychologist and his staff raise the age old question of who is
more dangerous to society: the easy-going dreamer with a vivid
imagination or the people who want him to conform to the
accepted version of reality.
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The Trip to Bountiful, by Horton Foote |
| May 22,23,29,30 2009 |
Tender, heartfelt study focuses
on Carrie Watts, who dreams of returning to her childhood home
in the small town of Bountiful,
Texas, which she left three decades ago. She sets out to
fulfill her dream, with results that are both heartbreaking and
brilliantly life-affirming. Carrie is a canny survivor who is
able to accept the compromise involved in fulfilling her wish to
return to her past of both losses and happy memories.
The play is timely in its reflection on changes beyond the
control of ordinary people.
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