Plays from the woman's point of view!
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
by Neil Simon |
Directed By Kammi Harris |
Monday, October 18
7 pm. |
| A new look
at an old friend! Unger and Madison are at it
again! Florence Ungar and Olive Madison, that
is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic:
the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the
poker party that begins the original version, Flo shows up on
Olive's doorstep during an evening of Trivial Pursuit.
Throughout the play Olive and Flo face life changes, leave
husbands, support ex-husbands, date again, and try to live
together without killing each other.
"Very funny indeed!" -N.Y. Post
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The Little Foxes
by Lillian Hellman |
Directed By Trisha Pancio Armour |
Monday, November 15
7 pm. |
| A milestone in American Drama!
The Little Foxes is considered a modern American classic,
written by one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth
century, Lillian Hellman. It is the powerful
story of three siblings, Regina, Oscar and Ben, who value wealth more than
each other. The play chronicles the hatred and greed of the Hubbard family,
who drape themselves in Southern gentility to conceal their vicious
grasping. To realize her dream of fleeing small-town Alabama for Chicago's
high society at the turn of the century, Regina crosses and double-crosses
her brothers for a larger stake in a business deal that will ensure her
future even as it destroys her family.
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Inspecting Carol
by Daniel Sullivan &
The Seattle Repertory Theatre |
Directed By Tobias Andersen |
Monday, December 20
7 pm. |
| A New Holiday Tradition!
Join The Rep for the first entry in our
Christmas
Salmagundi series: the hilarious comedy
Inspecting Carol!
A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector
meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle.
A man who asks to audition at a small theatre is mistaken
for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor and he is
given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol
... with hilarious results!
"A Dickens of a giggle" - The Seattle Times |
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Picnic
by William Inge |
Directed By Debera Ann Lund |
Monday, January 17
7 pm. |
| Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize!
The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint back
yards of two middle-aged widows. The one house
belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge
and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other
house belongs to Helen Potts, who lives with her elderly and invalid mother.
Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal
vitality seriously upsets the entire group. |
Aim & Sympathy:
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
by Kathleen Worley & Diane Olson Deiter |
Conceived and Directed By
Kathleen Worley and
Diane Olson Deiter |
Monday, February 21
7 pm. |
| A play about two women who made history for Women's History Month!
Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre Company is very excited to
commemorate Women's History Month with the story of two of the
country's great historical figures: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. This play, originally commissioned by the
Oregon
Council for the Humanities Chautauqua Program, examines the
women's close bond and their shared struggle for women's rights
in 19th century America. The Rep is very pleased that
both of the authors will perform their work on the Reynolds Middle School
stage!
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Uncommon Women and Others
by Wendy Wasserstein |
Directed By Micki Selvitella |
Monday, March 21
7 pm. |
| An insightful, funny play by one of today's greatest female playwrights!
Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action
begins with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five
close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College. As the
young women compare notes on their activities since leaving
school the audience is taken back in time, through a series
of flashbacks, to see them in their college days and learn
of the events, some funny, some touching, some bitingly
cynical, that helped to shape them. "funny, ironic, and
affectionate comedy... Miss Wasserstein is an uncommon young
woman if ever there was one." -
The New Yorker
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Woman In Mind
By Alan Ayckbourn |
Directed By Trish Egan |
Monday, April 18
7 pm. |
| A biting domestic comedy by one of the world's most successful playwrights!
Woman In Mind focuses on Susan, a British housewife
married to a boring cleric named George. After getting
knocked out, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations in
which her oppressive and boring everyday life is replaced by a
fantasy in which she is an ideal wife and mother with an
ideal family. But is her new fantasy family the dream she's
always wanted... or a nightmare in disguise?
"Ayckbourn knows that even the bleakest situations aren't
allergic to laughter, and he creates a set of believable
people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We
laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is
at once painful and exhilarating." -Sunday Express. |
JOIN US IN OUR "PLAY READING" HOME!
Thanks to the generosity of Reynolds School District, Mt. Hood Rep. play readings will be performed in the intimate 150 seat
Reynolds Middle School Theatre
201st and Halsey---Fairview
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So, what the heck is a "Salmagundi?"
The word comes from old-world French. A "Salmagundi" was a mixture of meats,
eggs, onions, anchovies and other ingredients put together into a delicious salad or stew;
literally a "mixed dish."
While our audiences have come to love The Rep's Community Christmas Carol,
we know that there are many more holiday treats out there for you to sample. This
year marks the beginning of our "Christmas Salmagundi" series - each year we'll add
a different ingredient to the pot, giving our audience a taste from many different
views of the holiday season. Who knows what we'll be bringing to the stage next year?
We hope you've brought your appetite!
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