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2010
Annual One-Act Festival
August 19 - August 29, 2010
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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Private Lives
by Noel Coward
Directed by Ty Hallmark and Stephanie Svec
September 24 - October 10, 2010
Sophisticated and entertaining comedy where Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, and reignite the old spark.
"“Gorgeous, dazzling, fantastically funny!" -- NY Times
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Wait Until Dark
by Frederick Knott
Directed by Sean Butler
October 29 - November 20, 2010
Just in time for Halloween, the popular thriller of drug dealers who
trace a doll with their stash in to the apartment of a blind woman, resulting
in a deadly game of cat and mouse. "...a first rate shocker...the
suspense drama long awaited eagerly." —NY Post.
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Holiday Show
A Christmas Carol
December 10 - December 19, 2010
The holiday classic of Ebenezer
Scrooge visited by the Ghosts of Christmas to reveal his past, present
and future if he continues miserly ways. A short version of the family
favorite that will delight audiences of all ages!
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Blackbird
by David Harrower
Directed by Craig Allen Mummey
January 7 - January 29, 2011
Two people – an older man
and a young girl – who once had a passionate affair meet again fifteen
years later when both face the brutal shattering truth of the abandoned
and unconventional love. "A fascinating and unnerving ninety-minute
cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and sexual intrigue, with genuine theatricality
and undeniable shock value." —Associated Press.
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrew S. Greenleaf
February 18 - March 12, 2011
Shakespeare returns to Silver
Spring in the impassioned story of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden
love catapults over family rivalry into the poetic realm of romance
and tragedy. "Blood is boiling in everybody’s veins, whether
from love or hate or an addling cocktail of the two, and it breeds impulsive
action." —NY Times
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Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth
by David McGillvray & Walter Zerlin Jr.
Directed by Jacy D'Aiutolo
April 1 - April 23, 2011
The uproarious comedy of the
intrepid ladies of the dramatic society plans to enter the "Scottish
Play" in their local drama contest, which goes hilariously all wrong.
"Place your tongue firmly in your cheek and enjoy this sideswipe at
a Shakespearean classic from the lovely ladies of the Farndale Avenue
Housing Estate, you won't be disappointed."
—BBC.
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Three Days of Rain
by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Debbie Niezgoda
May 13 - June 4, 2011
The reading of a will dusts
off for a brother and sister and their best friend the mysterious origins
of their father’s relationships with the women in their lives, which
we are then transported back in time to see. "Elegant lyrical,
the play casts a spell and flows like music: sometimes like nervous
jazz, sometimes like Puccini-esque rhapsody."
—NY Times.
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
by Dale Wasserman
Directed by Bob Benn
June 24 - July 23, 2011
The Tony and Oscar winning comedy drama of a man sentenced to a mental
institution fighting for freedom in a fierce contest with the head nurse.
"Funny, touching, and exciting."
–NY Daily News
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