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Show Times: Evening Performances Fridays and Saturdays curtain is at 8pm Sunday Matinee Performances curtain is at 2pm |
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| Ticket Prices: Performance Prices: Adults $10 Seniors $7.00 |
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| March 2006 - One Acts (A Doctor in Spite of Himself & Scapino) |  |
by Moliere Directed By Michael C. Nelson Performances: March 17-18 & 24-25 at 8pm Sunday Matinees March 19 and 26 at 2pm A Doctor in Spite of Himself After a quarrel with his wife, the quick-witted woodcutter Sganerelle goes off to chop wood. To spite him, his wife convinces two passing servants that Sganerelle is a brilliant but eccentric doctor, which leads to escapades and complications in the best Molière tradition. Scapino With the first line of the play, we plunge into the situation as Octavio cries, "I am lost! I am ruined! What am I to do? My world is crumbling around me. Disaster after disaster!" Into this comes Scapino who states, "The good Lord has blessed me with quite a genius for clever ideas and inspired inventions which the less talented, in their jealousies, call deceits and trickery!" At one point, with the girl's father hiding in a huge sack, Scapino pretends to be a Japanese waiter shouting, "Ah so—Kung Fu—there is something moving in the saki! I am going to give one gigantic karate chop suey to the saki!" "See this Naples and die—laughing." Click here to view the cast list. |
| May 2006 - Charlotte's Web |
by E.B. White Directed By Larry Smith Performances: May 5-6 and 12-13 at 8pm Sunday Matinee May 7 and 14 at 2pm An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, E.B. White reminds us to open our eyes to the wonder and miracle often found in the simplest of things. Click here to view the cast list. |
| July 2006 - A Street Car Named Desire |
by Tennessee Williams Directed By James L. Seay Performances: July 7-8 & 14-15 at 8pm Sunday Matinees July 9 & 16 at 2pm The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness. Click here to view the cast list. |
| October 2006 - Playing with Fire (After Frankenstein) |
by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel Directed by Todd Isaacs Performances: October 20-21 and 27-28 at 8pm Sunday Matinees October 22 & 29 As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt—for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil—culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?" It is a question the exhausted Frankenstein cannot answer and, as the play ends, the Monster lives on, condemned to pass his remaining days in the awful loneliness he has so desperately sought to escape. Written for and Originally Producted by The Guthrie Theater. Click here to view the cast list. |
| December 2006 - The Christmas Express |
by Pat Cook Directed By Jessica Holmes Performances: December 1-2 and 8-9 at 8pm Sunday Matinees December 3 & 10 "This is the most hopeless place in the world!" Hilda intones as she and Satch, her assistant, argue over what time it is. She dreams of faraway places and only finds tedium in running the Holly Railway Station. That is, until Leo Tannenbaum drops in out of nowhere the day before Christmas Eve. Suddenly, an old radio that hasn't worked in years springs to life, the local group of carolers (which usually yowls like a gang of wet cats) begins to sound like the Morman Tabernacle Choir and the whole town gets the Christmas spirit. Coincidence? Or is Leo doing all this? Even Satch changes his tune when it turns out that Leo might be on the run. This nostalgic theatrical greeting card is full of eccentric small town characters, wise-cracking their way to finding the true wonder of Christmas. And on the way they make us all wish we could take a ride on The Christmas Express. Cl4">Click here to view the cast list. |