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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (March 11-27, 2010)

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A Drama by Edward Albee

Husband college faculty member George, and president’s daughter Martha have learned to survive within the world and within their relationship. A young faculty couple arrive as guests. They have yet to come to terms with their existence, but in one evening George and Martha teach them all they know. Sparkling dialogue and emotional fireworks imbued with brilliant psychological and sociological insight. Absolutely riveting!

“Albee can…be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.” – New York Post

Pygmalion (January 14-30, 2010)

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A Comedy by George Bernard Shaw

One of Shaw’s finest plays, and a source of theatre-audience delight for over a hundred years! It achieved further distinction when adapted into the stunning musical My Fair Lady. Phonetics expert Henry Higgins, wagers he can transform the flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a lovely lady of high society.

“The most brilliant comedy of the century.” – Times of London

Summer and Smoke (November 19 – December 5, 2009)

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A Drama by Tennessee Williams

One of Williams’ most highly regarded works! The play is a simple love story between a somewhat puritanical young Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. However, they find themselves caught between the dictates of their environments, and the dicatates of their hearts.

“The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless… [Williams] brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion.” – Newsweek

Private Lives (October 1-17, 2009)

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A Comedy by Noël Coward

Amanda and Elyot can’t live together and they can’t live apart. When they discover they are honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses, they not only fall in love all over again, they learn to hate each other all over again. A comedy with a dark underside, fireworks fly as each character yearns desperately for love.

“…[Noël] Coward is most seriously good when he is funniest.” – New York Times

Wait Until Dark (May 7-23, 2009)

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A Thriller by Frederick Knott

“…a first rate shocker…the suspense drama we’ve long awaited eagerly.” – New York Post

“As directed by L. Garth Allen, the play scales one rising line of tension until the shocking climatic scene.” – North York Mirror

A masterfully constructed thriller that moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene. A tense thriller in which a blind girl, alone in a Greenwich Village apartment, is stalked by vicious drug smugglers. A startling shocker even as the curtain falls.

The Seagull (March 12-28, 2009)

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A Comedy by Anton Chekhov adapted by Jean-Claude van Itallie

“It is sublimely understood Chekov…an event and a thrilling one.” – New York Post

“[Your] theatre troupe is always better than professional.” (D.M. —Toronto, ON)

The Seagull, a work that the author himself claimed contained “five tons of love”, is a play about a very human tendency to reject love that is freely given and seek it where it is withheld. Many of its characters are caught in a destructive, triangular relationship that evokes both pathos and humor. What the characters cannot successfully parry is the destructive force of time, the passage of which robs some, like famous actress Madame Arkadina, of beauty, and others, like her sensitive would-be-writer son Konstantine, of hope.

The School For Wives (January 15-31, 2009)

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A Comedy by Molière translated by Richard Wilbur

“…the perfect antidote to a dreary and cold winter’s night!” (P.L. —Whitby, ON)

“…a thing of joy…a carefree, happy and sparkling romp to be seen and enjoyed by young and old alike.” – New York Newsday

Arnolphe has trained Agnes since childhood to be his wife, teaching her only to sew, pray, and serve him. But as their wedding approaches his plan goes ridiculously awry; Agnes is so innocent she doesn’t know better than to fall in love—with someone else. A frothy, hilarious take on love and marriage, this classic farce will tickle every funny bone in your body.

Hedda Gabler (November 13-29, 2008)

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A Drama by Henrik Ibsen adapted by Jon Robin Baitz

“…when else have you seen a Hedda Gabler that moved with such compelling force and fluency…? Baitz’s loosened-up, colloquial translation is perfect…” – New York Times

The aristocratic daughter of the legendary General Gabler returns from her honeymoon as the bride of academic but ineffectual George Tesman to face a precarious social position and a shadowy figure from her checkered past. The danger of her situation and growing dissatisfaction with her marriage leads the headstrong Hedda Gabler to wreak confusion and despair upon all who cross her in her increasingly desperate attempt to escape.