The Fourposter
by Jan deHartog |
Directed By Berta Limbaugh |
Monday, October 20 2003
7 pm. |
| Winner of the
1956 Tony Award! The Fourposter
chronicles the marriage of Agnes and Michael from their
wedding night in 1890 through 35 years of marriage, all in
and around the couple's old 4-poster bed. They laugh and cry,
fall in and out of love, and grow together in the same room
where they began their married life. |
Brighton Beach Memoirs
by Neil Simon |
Directed By Trisha Pancio Armour |
Monday, November 17 2003
7 pm. |
| Winner of the 1983 New York Drama Critics Award!
The first of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy, Brighton Beach Memoirs
is a portrait of the author as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his
family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. The play
captures a few days in the life of a struggling Jewish
household that includes Eugene's hard-working father,
his sharp-tongued mother, his older and vastly more
experienced brother, his widowed aunt and her two young
daughters. It is a deeply appealing play that deftly mixes
drama with comedy. New York Daily News said of it:
"In many respects Simon's funniest, richest and consequently
the most affecting of his plays." |
A Community Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens |
Directed By Trish Egan |
Sunday, December 21st 2003
7 pm. |
| An Annual Holiday Tradition!
Join The Rep for what is quickly becoming the high-point
in East-County's holiday season! Thrill to the Rep’s
exciting readers theatre version of the beloved Dickens
classic read by professional actors and members of our
community with music by Carolers of the Portland Opera, and
frightening sound effects provided by you, the audience!
Holiday refreshments provided. |
The Gin Game
by D.L. Coburn |
Directed By Jerry Lesch |
Monday, January 19, 2004
7 pm. |
Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize!
The game of gin is a metaphor for life, as the two residents
of a retirement home (Fonsia Dorsey and Weller Martin) begin
to reveal intimate details of their lives as they are
playing cards. Over the course of the game their secrets
become weapons used against one another. "Perfect.
A vibrant
study on loneliness, disillusion, old age and eath, yet
fiercely funny." - The Boston Globe
We are thrilled to have Artistic Director
Tobias Andersen and
Associate Artistic Director Trish Egan
as the stars of our Gin Game. |
Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward |
Directed By Deborah Ann Lund |
Monday, February 16 2004
7 pm. |
| Winner of a 1970 Tony Award for Distinguished Achievement
Blithe Spirit is the story of a middle aged writer who
decides to host a seance as research for a novel he is
planning to write about a murderous fake psychic. He is a
remarried widower, and the evening begins with a casual
chat about his first wife Elvira’s seemingly unquenchable
taste for life which came to an abrupt end six years
before. The conversation seems to pass without upset for
his present wife, Ruth, but when the seance conjures up
Elvira in ghost form, things take a decided turn for the
worse. Though only he can see her, Elvira’s presence puts
considerable strain upon Charles’ relationship with Ruth,
and forces him to reassess his attitudes towards love and
marriage. Has he really gotten over Elvira? Are things
really so great with Ruth after all? How is Ruth herself to
cope with the literal specter of her predecessor? And
just what is Elvira up to anyway? Does she have nefarious
designs upon her former husband’s very life? |
Lost In Yonkers
by Neil Simon |
Directed By Andres Alcala |
Monday, March 15 2004
7 pm. |
| Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award!
Celebrated local director Andres Alcala,
director of last year's Shadowlands,
returns to bring Rep audiences the play many critics have
called the pinnacle of Neil Simon's career. At the same time
funny and poignant, Lost In Yonkers tells the tale of
Jay and Arty, two young boys forced to live with their domineering
grandmother in Yonkers, New York while their father takes a job
in another state. While the children are only temporarily
exiled in Yonkers, the rest of their sad, funny family is
truly lost. ‘‘One of Simon’s most
impressive and funniest plays.’’—N.Y. Daily News. ‘‘Laughter
and tears come together in a new emotional truth. There are
moments in this play when you experience a new kind of
laughter for Simon, a silent laughter that doesn’t explode
into a yuk but implodes straight into your heart.’’—Newsweek.
|
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder
By Mark Medoff |
Directed By Peter Baker |
Monday, April 19 2004
7 pm. |
| Winner of the 1984 Obie Award!
The scene is an all-night diner in a sleepy southwestern town,
the time early Sunday morning, when the night attendant, young
Stephen (Red) Ryder, is about to turn his duties over to his
daytime counterpart, Angel. The calm of the morning vanishes,
however, with the arrival of Teddy and
Cheryl. The ordeal that follows leaves each inhabitant of
the diner changed more than they would
have the desire, or perhaps courage, to admit. "...we are in
the hands of a playwright who knows what he is doing every
step of the way." —The New Yorker. "...very skillful and very
effective..." —Village Voice. |
