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Summer Repertory Season At Pendragon Starts May 11
We invite you to join us for :
- a children's classic
- a double bill farce
- a psychological thriller
- a new play
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
(adapted by Deborah Lynn Frockt) directed by Bonnie B. Brewer
Since 1865, Alice has entertained children and adults. The adaptation we have chosen was first produced by the Seattle Children's Theatre."This big, color- splashed show retains Carroll's wonderfully imaginative and familiar characters, and much of his playfully nonsensical verse." (Seattle Times)
On an ordinary and rather boring day, Alice follows a White Rabbit with a pocket watch into a world filled with amongst others: talking flowers, a Caterpillar, a Duchess, Gryphon, Mock Turtle, Mad Hatter and March Hare. Her insatiable curiosity continues to draw her into one madcap adventure after another, including of course the Queen's Court. Alice's imaginary world is filled with wonder and provides a magical adventure for all ages.
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND (Tom Stoppard)
& BLACK COMEDY (Peter Shaffer)
directed by Karen Lordi Kirkham
A double bill of one acts, written by two of England's leading playwrights, is paired to produce an hilarious evening!
Tom Stoppard, undoubtedly one of England's greatest playwrights, has constructed a play -within -a -play written to spoof "whodunits." Two competing theatre critics settle in to watch and review a play which appears to have all of the staples of an Agatha Christie mystery: a secluded country home, ominous reports of a criminal on the loose, suspicious behavior by some of the guests, an unidentified dead body. As the the play progresses, both critics find themselves literally drawn into the mayhem.
"An exceedingly clever lampoon, sharply in focus and at least double-barreled in its own critical attack." (NY Times)
Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY "is like the rediscovery of laughter - the hilarity never stops." (NY World Journal Tribune)
The farce is set in a London flat during an electrical blackout and is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme. The play opens with an impending dinner party. Audience and stage are dark while the characters go about their preparations. A few minutes into the play, "a fuse blows". The actors are then illuminated as the characters move about the stage apparently invisible to each other. It is a play about people literally and figuratively in the dark.
NIGHT MUST FALL (Emlyn Williams)
directed by Sidney Friedman
Emlyn William's psychological thriller was first performed in 1935. It was made into a film, twice (1937 and 1964), a radio series in 1948, and has enjoyed countless revivals.
A series of murders have been committed, an elderly spinster and her household of domestics invite the charismatic boyfriend of the maid into the house for protection. The question for the audience: who is the next victim?
Emlyn Williams had a a life long obsession with grisly murder cases. In this riveting drama, he explores the magnetic appeal of the lurid and the idea that extraordinary evil can take ordinary forms.
NIGHT MUST FALL is a spine-chilling mystery about a psychopathic killer whose alternately charming and threatening personality fascinates those around him.
WELCOME HOME JENNY SUTTER
(Julie Marie Myatt)
directed by Anita Montgomery
Pendragon is honored to present the tender, funny and important story of a Marine's return from Iraq. She is no longer a soldier, but can she still be a mother ?
Jenny ends up in a desert community where displaced misfits allow her to search for what she has lost and how that may inform her future. "What predominates here isn't Jenny' s pain but the care that her friends in this new, more forgiving desert take with it. It becomes, in the end, a play about love and mercy and the inestimable value of kindness. (The Oregonian)
The play, a winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Theatre, premiered in February at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. That production will travel to the Kennedy Center in July. As of this writing, Pendragon is only the second theatre to be granted the rights for a production of this highly acclaimed new play. (Please note that the play does contain strong language and mature themes.)
I look forward to seeing you at the theatre this summer.
Susan Neal
Artistic Director
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Pendragon Theatre is supported in part
by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a New York State agency. |
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Pendragon's Touring program is supported in part by
the National Endowment for the Arts which believes a great nation deserves great art. |
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Updated:
April 2008
