2011-2012 Season
This season we are living on the edge and bringing you all kinds of new theatre. Get out those calendars ladies and gentlemen; this is a year you don’t want to miss!
Sealed for Freshness
By Doug Stone
7:30 p.m., Oct. 5–8, 2011
[ PG-13–Mild Language ]
This raucous comedy is set in 1968 during the heyday of Tupperware parties. Hostess Bonnie invites a group of neighbors over for a party. The guest list: perky, rich Jean; Jean’s cranky and very pregnant sister, Sinclair; ditzy-blonde Tracy Ann; and new neighbor Diane, who’s made quite a career selling Tupperware, but at the expense of her marriage. The mix of personalities and the number of martinis consumed lead to a great deal of absurd high jinks plus revelations of an equal number of secrets and insecurities. The play “makes its audiences loopy with giddiness.” It’s one you won’t want to miss!
Necessary Targets
By Eve Ensler
[ PG-13–Mature Themes and Mild Language ]
7:30 p.m., Nov. 9–12, 2011
In this play, two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and an ambitious young writer, travel to Bosnia to help women refugees confront their memories of war. Though the two have little in common beyond the methods they use to distance themselves from their subjects, they emerge deeply changed as they confront their own fears in the face of violence, resiliency and war. Based on interviews conducted by Eve Ensler with numerous women who survived the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, this show is a timely reminder of how America struggles to define its relationship with the rest of the world. USA Today says due to “Ensler’s straightforward intensity and delicate comic relief,” this show is “absorbing and moving.”
Beautiful Bodies
By Laura Cunningham
[ PG-13–Mild Language ]
7:30 p.m., Feb. 15–18, 2012
This feel-good production chronicles six long-term friends in their mid 30s who trade confidences and witty exchanges. Set at a party to celebrate a friend’s pregnancy resulting from a one-night love affair, secrets begin to surface and tensions flare. As the circle of friends reveals all, they fight, and, ultimately, find comfort in this one-night gala. “It’s a smart, satisfying story about one of those nights when all the huge secrets get spilled and the stale air gets cleared,” says The Austin Chronicle.
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
[ R–Sexual References and Strong Language ]
7:30 p.m., April 11–14, 2012
Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull-witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth’s. The NY Post calls it “very funny and provocative . . . a mind-lifting experience.”
