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2009
Annual One-Act Festival
August 6 - August 23, 2009
An exciting collection of mostly original one-act plays, many
by local playwrights. Each weekend features different plays
that prove in their own ways that humor and passions are what make
us human.
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Laurie T. Freed
September 11 - October 4, 2009
Classic American memory play of illusion and escape spins a beautiful
lyrical ode of the fateful Wingfield family with a faded past and hopeful prospect
for the future.
"An exquisite play, tender and seductive, with a proud, bitter heart always
worth seeing." -- NY Magazine
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The
Goat or, Who is Sylvia
by Edward Albee
Directed by Craig Allen Mummey
October 30 - November 22, 2009
Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, Albee offers with humor and pathos
the most unexpected twists and turns of a family and a husband's surprising love.
"Challenging -- and... as outrageously funny -- as theater gets." -- NY Post
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Holiday Show
A Little Princess
Directed by Guillaume Tourniaire
December 4 - December 20, 2009
Inspired by the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a courageous young girl
survives hardship and helps those around her until she finds a mysterious benefactor
and joy again.
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Death and the Maiden
by Ariel Dorfman
Directed by Jacy D'Aiutolo
January 15 - February 7, 2010
Award-winning political thriller, drawn from the author's native Chile, where roles
are reversed when the torture survivor turns the tables on her suspected oppressor.
"Suspenseful, riveting, and movingly personal." -- NY Times
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Die! Mommie! Die!
by Charles Busch
Directed by Michael Sandner
March 5 - March 28, 2010
Comic melodrama of secrets and murder when a daughter plots to kill her own mother
after her father's mysterious death. "Pureed pastiche of the 1960s diva-with-an-axe
flicks with good-natured comic brio and hair-trigger comic timing." -- NY Times
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Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Chris Curtis
April 16 - May 9, 2010
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. A life-shattering accident turns a suburban
family's world upside down trying to chart their pathway from darkness into light.
"Grade: A! Transcendent and deeply affecting, shifts perfectly from hilarity
to grief." -- Entertainment Weekly
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell
June 4 - June 27, 2010
The classic Shavian comedy will delight when a fussy English professor wagers that
he can transform a guttersnipe cockney flower girl into a lady of breeding, voice, and
manners. "Scintillating. Shaw's most famous comedy is more radical and funnier than
ever." -- Guardian
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Fat Pig
by Neil LaBute
Directed by Seth Ghitelman
July 16 - August 8, 2010
Hilarity and feeling alternate in this bold critique of our ideal of
beauty and brashly questions our own ability to change what we dislike
about ourselves. "Lacerating humor, brandished with especially
entertaining effect." -- Washington Post
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