Our 2009/10 season includes tickets to the following mainstage productions:

 

Heroes

by Gerald Sibleyras

Translated by Tom Stoppard

Featuring Artistic Associate David Darlow and guest artists Mike Nussbaum and Roderick Peeples

Playing in the Downstairs Mainstage at the Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
October 14 - November 29, 2009

Tom Stoppard's translation of Gerald Sibleyras' play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from WWI keep each other company on the back terrace of a retired soldiers' home. Through a series of witty scenes, the men goad one another into new adventures. The men's cantankerous camaraderie becomes strained as they plot an expedition to Indochina, or at least as far as the poplar trees on the distant hill. Heroes is a funny and bittersweet play about memory and "not going gently into that good night."

 

 

The Island

By Athol Fugard

Directed by James Bohnen

Playing in the Upstairs Mainstage at the Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
January 27 - March 7, 2010

Athol Fugard's daring drama is set in an unnamed prison based on the one where Nelson Mandela was held. John and Winston are cellmates who spend their days doing back-breaking labor, and their nights rehearsing Sophocles' Antigone to present to their fellow inmates. When John learns his sentence is being reduced, the men's friendship is tested. Fugard plays the parallels between Antigone's fight against political and patriarchal boundaries off of the imprisoned men's fight for their dignity. The Island is a testament to the resiliency of the human heart.

 

 

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Christopher Hampton

Directed by Artistic Associate David Darlow