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MISO tells the story of the Nagao family who are struggling to make ends meet in 1930’s rural Japan where many families are surviving on roots and bark and others are emigrating to Brazil and America. The father, wishing to fulfill his own thwarted military ambitions, volunteers his son for the army, saying it is the honorable way to provide for the family. But the family is outraged, and a series of tumbling events precipitate a sudden and unexpected conclusion.
WORLD PREMIERE!
Miso
a drama by Susan Shirwen
directed by Clare Davidson
July 24 - August 16, 2009
Niagara Falls consists of two connected one acts: American Coffee is set in the Poletti family kitchen on the morning of the wedding, as the bride's parents deal with--and can't deal with--the fact that their gay son and his lover have surprised them with a visit for the wedding and are currently sleeping upstairs. Will they attend? Will they (gasp) dance together?
Part Two, The Shangri-La Motor Inn, picks up with the newlywed couple, in the aftermath of the wedding, already having doubts about their future. Enter Fred, the gay hotel clerk, who takes it upon himself to save their already-floundering marriage. A Lambda Literary Awards finalist.
Night of January 16th
a drama by Ayn Rand
directed by Brad Powell
September 25 - October 18, 2009
Bjorn Faulkner has swindled millions of dollars from investors. In the wake of a crash, he is facing bankruptcy despite a loan from the wealthy father of his new wife. On the night of January 16th, Bjorn and Karen Andre, his mistress of ten years, are in the penthouse at the top of the Faulkner Building In New York when he falls to his death. Was it a suicide--or murder? Karen Andre is placed on trial for murder.
The play takes place entirely in a courtroom and each night members of the audience are picked to be the jury. Witnesses contradict each other, and it is almost certain that some of them are lying. Depending upon the jury’s findings, the play has a different ending, and the actors must decide how much of their character's testimony is actually true. The hit of the 1935-36 Broadway season, the play is just as timely today.
written and directed by Eric Nemoto
Dates to be announced throughout the season
For the Time Being - A Christmas Oratorio
This is not your regular Christmas Carol
written by W. H. Auden
abridged and adapted by John Wythe White
co-directed by Jan McGrath & John Wythe White
Dec. 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Jan 2 & 3
Written in 1942, when the world was at war, Auden's For the Time Being is a parable merging the Biblical and the contemporary with a result that is simultaneously audacious and poetic. The play has affinities with the medieval mystery plays, which enacted events of biblical history with a secular, and often comic, story. Peter Steinfels, writing for The New York Times, said "It will never replace The Night Before Christmas or the seasonal pageant at Radio City Music Hall, but W.H. Auden's For the Time Being remains one of the most powerful expressions of the meaning of Christmas...This is a Christmas for grown-ups."
The Piano Lesson
a drama by August Wilson
directed by Jeanne Wynne Herring
February 12 - March 7, 2010
The play is the fourth in August Wilson’s cycle of plays about the African American experience in the 20th century. Set in Pittsburgh in 1936 it focuses upon the Charles siblings, Berniece and Boy Willie, who clash over whether to sell their family’s piano. In the mid-20th century, when the family were slaves, two members were sold by their owners, the Sutters, for a piano. A master-carpenter in the Charles family was ordered by the Sutters to carve the faces of the sold slaves into the piano. He did that and more: he carved the family’s entire history into the piano. The instrument was later stolen by Berniece and Boy Willie’s father, who was killed by the Sutters in retribution. The play’s central and dominant metaphor is the piano, while ghosts and spirits haunt the unfolding drama.. The Piano Lesson won Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Happy Days
a drama by Samuel Beckett
directed by Liz Kane
April 16 - May 9, 2010
There are only two characters, a man and a woman, in Beckett's intellectual tickler, but there is a plentitude of ideas and incisive comments on life. In the first of the two short acts Winnie is buried to her waist, but still has access to all the civilized accoutrements: toothbrush, mirror, pistol.
Niagara Falls
a comedy by Victor Bumbalo
directed by Larry Bialock
June 18 - July 11, 2010
a comedy by David Mamet
directed by David Farmer
November 20 - December 13, 2009
It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet. Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys — saving them from the slaughter before Thanksgiving — and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk it all in attempt to win back public support. With Mamet's characteristic no-holds-barred style, November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win.
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In the second act she is buried to her neck, and left to work with only her eyes and her mind. This is sufficient, though, for her happy days. She busies herself with memories and survives on delighting in mundane routine and the tiniest of things. She can go on, she must on. This stirring and stunning work elucidates what Beckett was striving for in what's still known as his most hopeful work--the ferocity of the human spirit, the trap of existence, and the limited nature of communication.
Don't miss the first show of our 2009 - 2010 Season!
A joint project with MASK ARTS & INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
in London, England.
TAG Dark Night!
Dancing Between Heaven & Hell
written & directed by Eric Nemoto
October 5, 6, 12 - 14, 19 - 25, 2009
Reina and Jacqueline are similar in so many ways. They are young, active and they love to dance, but they also share a haunting secret. They are Soul Saviours; mortals chosen by God to save humans from the clutches of demons. But will their mission lead to redemption? Or will their own souls face eternal damnation?
