2007-2008 Season

 

It is with great pride and joy that we announce the plays for our 2007-2008 season--our sixth! We invite you to share the Destinations pursued in seven magnificent works: some richly comic, others deeply moving: new works, classics, and contemporary gems—winners all.

Three Sisters   by Anton Chekhov   New translation by Craig Lucas     September 7 - 30
Chekhov’s heartbreaking work hauntingly evokes the longing for a lost golden time and the expectation—however improbable--of somehow finding it again.

Three Tall Women   by Edward Albee     October 26 – November 18
This Pulitzer-Prize-winner reflects a woman’s life in a three-way mirror, as youth, middle age, and old age are invoked with lyricism, biting humor, and, ultimately, serene acceptance.

True West by Sam Shepard     January 17 – February 3
Toasters and typewriters duke it out!  All hell breaks lose when a frustrated screenwriter is stunned by the arrival of his toaster-snatching desert rat of a brother. 

Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel     February 22 – March 16
Friel’s haunting play traces a woman’s journey from blindness to seeing, as we discover what can be lost with the “gift” of sight.  

Pear Slices 2008  by the Pear Playwrights Guild     April 4 -27
Can this really be the fifth time for Slices? Our Pear playwrights will dazzle you once again with a rich and juicy assortment of short new plays. Any way you slice ‘em, they’re fabulous!

Northanger Abbey   by Jane Austen    New Dramatization by Diane Tasca    May 16 – June 8
The sublime Miss Austen’s first novel dishes up incisive social satire along with a hilarious spoof of the Gothic novel (the horror fiction of its time). This witty, enchanting work comes to life onstage in a new dramatization by the Pear’s Artistic Director.

Homeland Prayer  by Jeff Carter    World Premiere     June 27 – July 13
A stunning, wrenching glimpse into the life of a contemporary American family turned upside-down by the return of a wounded young soldier.