OUR 2020–2021 SEASON
A Season of Awakenings
SEASON SPONSOR: MARIANNE LEEDY
A View from the Bridge
by Arthur Miller
directed by Christopher Johnson
September 10–27, 2020
In the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, Arthur Miller’s heartbreaking story tells of Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman, whose incestuous love for his niece drives him to his own destruction.
Sponsored by Arthur & Katherine Jacobson
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
by David Catlin
directed by Cynthia Meier
November 5–22, 2020
In an abandoned Swiss castle on a stormy night, five poets compete to tell the most frightening story. The young Mary Shelley will win, of course. In this new and exciting adaptation, Mary unfolds her tale with the other four poets playing all the parts. The Creature is not only brutal, but vulnerable, sophisticated, and very clearly a wounded piece of Mary herself.
Sponsored by Pat & John Hemann
The Oresteia
by Ellen McLaughlin
directed by Joseph McGrath
Video Available January 13–31, 2021
Through ten years of war, grief and rage, Queen Clytemnestra lies in wait for her husband Agamemnon's return, determined to avenge one child, only to doom the others. The sole surviving trilogy of Greek tragedy, The Oresteia chronicles a deluge of violence that can only be stopped when society peers into its own soul.
Sponsored by Barbara Martinsons & Larry Boutis
The Weir
by Conor McPherson
directed by Christopher Johnson
February 25–March 14, 2021
A visitor from Dublin becomes the occasion for the spinning of occult yarns in a rural Irish pub. Well-told tales of ghosts and fairies, with enough doubt and footing in the real world to be merely unsettlingly coincidental. The visitor, however, has a tale of her own that lands much more heavily.
Sponsored by Andy & Cammie Watson
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
directed by Cynthia Meier
April 22–May 9, 2021
In one of Shakespeare’s most fanciful comedies, Rosalind (disguised as a boy) and her friend Celia make the journey from oppressive town to open country. Genders become confused when Rosalind pretends to be a woman in the process of enticing her love, Orlando.
Sponsored by John Wahl & Mary Lou Forier