Woman in Mind
March 8-16, 2002
Woman in Mind centers on Susan, an unhappy
housewife and mother who knocks herself out after stepping on a
garden rake. When she regains consciousness she has become a very
different person and she attempts to create the ideal family. A dark
and mysterious comedy that will have you laughing and guessing up
to the very end.
From Page to Stage and Script to Screen
May 9-18, 2002
Speed the Play takes its title from
David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow and is playwright David
Ives way of skewering Mamet’s patented testosterone-filled male
worlds and blatant sexism. In just under 10 minutes the audience will
see paired down versions of Mamet’s American Buffalo,
Speed-the-Plow, Oleanna, and Sexual Perversity In
Chicago. This hilarious short is explained by the emcee in the
opening line: “Americans like speed…. So Mamet keeps
his plays in fifth gear”.
For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is Christopher Durang’s hilarious 1994 parody of Tennessee Williams classic, The Glass Menagerie. By bringing to the surface what was left unsaid in the original, Durang’s sendup serves a delicious combination of malice and affection as the fading Southern Belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hypochondriacal son, Lawrence for "the feminine caller," despite his retreat into a world of glass cocktail stirrers.
Hidden in this Picture tells the story of a writer-director team on the brink of either extreme success or extreme ruin. Their movie, which includes a cast of hundreds and an elaborate sunset, is over budget. They have one last shot to make it work. With the producers breathing down their necks, they watch as the sum total of their creative work is derailed by Murphy’s Law or in this case, a herd of cows that decide to stroll into the shot. Written by playwright Aaron Sorkin, best known as the executive producer and writer of the hit television series The West Wing.
Crimes of the Heart
July 12-20, 2002
Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize winning comedy
about the intrigues, secrets and scandals of three sisters,
the MaGraths, who are reunited on the occasion of the youngest
sister’s release from jail after shooting her husband.
Warm hearted, irreverent, zany, and brilliantly imaginative this play
teems with humanity and humor as it examines the lives of Southern
sisters in comic crisis.