2008-2009 Season

 

Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams     September 12 -28
America’s most lyrical playwright celebrates the bewitching power of unconventionality—and the force of unrequited love. One of Williams’ most compelling, moving plays.

Nickel and Dimed   by Joan Holden    October 24 – November 9
Based on Barbara Ehrenreich’s bestseller, this provocative play explores the flip side of American “prosperity.” A journalist goes undercover to scrub toilets, wait tables, and investigate how large numbers of women keep body and soul together on small change. An all too-true story.

The Circle by Somerset Maugham           January 9 – February 1
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is still a sigh, but what happens after time—lots of time--goes by? A young wife choosing between love and duty could learn a lesson from a sadder but wiser couple’s once-hot affair. An Ibsenesque dilemma, served up with a dash of bracing British humor.

Pick Up Ax by Anthony Clarvoe              February 27 – March 15
This sly satire sweeps us back to the heady dawn of the dot-com era (ah, the pull of nostalgia!). Two brilliant young geeks in shorts mix it up with an old-school guy in a suit.  Whom would you bet on to win?

Pear Slices 2009 by the Pear Playwrights Guild     April 10 – 26
Our sixth course of delectable new short plays by the Pear’s peerless playwrights. Come and see what they serve up this time!

The Way of the World by William Congreve                  May 8 –  31
Comedy and sexual intrigue combine in this masterpiece of the Restoration period, staged to reflect the dangerous liaisons of our own celebrity-obsessed culture.  

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman              June 26 – July 12
This glorious, inventive play is a brilliant reworking of Ovid’s classic tales of gods and mortals. The stakes couldn’t be higher: life, death, and, ultimately, the redemptive power of love.