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Fat Pig
by Neil LaBute
directed by
Christina Hauger
August 22-25
7:00 PM
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
2:00 PM
Sunday |
Cow. Slob. Pig. How many
insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the
woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for
Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus
sized-and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to
his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally he
comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of
conventional good looks.
Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not
only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of
beauty but boldy questions our own ability to change what we
dislike about ourselves. |
Coyote on a
Fence
by Bruce Graham
directed by Troy Haas
November
14-17
7:00 PM
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
2:00 PM
Sunday
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"Does a lousy upbringing excuse heinous
crimes? Is there room for mercy and repentance within the
judicial system? And if Americans really knew the inhabitants of
death row, would they want to see them die?
Worthy questions…
"a provocative subject and a
literate sensibility."
Variety "The language
is as precise as it is profane, provoking both troubling thought
and the occasional cheerful laugh…[COYOTE ON A FENCE] will
change you a little before it lets go of you."
Cincinnati CityBeat.
"…excellent theater in every
way…"
Philadelphia City Paper. |
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Revenge of the
Space Pandas
or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock
by David Mamet
directed by
Benjamin Crockett
January 9-12
7:00 PM
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
2:00 PM
Sunday
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Binky Rudich, his friend Viv, and his almost
human sheep Bob tinker with a two-speed clock with the idea
that, as Binky says, "Time on Earth moves at the same speed all
the time, but there is another speed, a slower speed, and if we
could find it, everything would stand still on Earth and we
would spin off." And they do! To Crestview, Fourth World in the Goolagong System, ruled by George Topax and guarded by the Great
Space Pandas. The excitement really begins when the Supreme
Ruler commands that Bob be brought to him, never again to leave
Goolagong, and he steals the two-speed clock just to make sure.
Only a very serious playwright could produce such an insane
comedy!
This production
will feature middle school students from the NEXTWAVE
Educational Program |
The Mercy Seat
by Neil LaBute
directed by
Keith Blaser
February 20-23
7:00 PM
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
2:00 PM
Sunday
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Set on September 12,
2001, The Mercy Seat continues Neil LaBute’s unflinching
fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between
the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, the world changes
overnight. A man and a woman explore the choices now available
to them in an existence different from the one they had lived
just the day before. Can one be opportunistic in a time of
universal selflessness?
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Proof
by David Auburn
directed by Zach Tieken
April 3-6
7:00 PM
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
2:00 PM
Sunday
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On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday,
Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for
her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now,
following his death, she must deal with her own volatile
emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the
attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to
find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left
behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance
and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into
the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's
madness—or genius—will she inherit?
Proof won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony
Award for Best Play.
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