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
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
“…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.
“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 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.
“…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.
“…Neil Simon in top form…” – New York Times
The laughs are abundant in this play by one of the masters of American comedy. California Suite is a classic Neil Simon comedy which takes place at the Beverly Hills Hotel during the weekend of the Academy Awards celebration and follows the misadventures of four groups of guests, including a divorced couple battling over the custody of their daughter, a husband who gets caught with a hooker in his room by his wife, a British actress nominated for an Oscar and her straying gay husband and two competing doctors and their wives forced to share a hotel room.
“Sight gags, clever word play, screwball comedy … and all embellished with song and dance!”
In this renowned comedy with songs in the French 19th century farcical vaudeville tradition, the hero, M. Fadinard, is about to get married when an attractive lady and her irate lover pop up. They announce that his horse has compromised her by eating her rare Italian straw showFive and that they will not leave the bridal chamber until Fadinard has produced an identical one. The mayhem that ensues – mistaken identities, characters hiding behind closed doors, and all the other devices of French farce – create an evening of unparalleled hilarity. And all embellished with song and dance!
