Our 2005-2006
Readers Theatre Season
Plays from foreign lands!
Made possible by the
generous support of
Lovers
by Brian Friel |
Directed By Jerry Lesch |
Monday, October 17
7 pm. |
| A Story
of Winners... and Losers From One of Ireland's Greatest Playwrights
Two young lovers revel in their passion and joy,
blissfully ignorant of the wanton nature of fate. Two older
lovers lead lives of quiet rebellion, hiding their devotion in
poetry. Haunting, beautiful language from the pen of Ireland's
leading modern playwright tells the comic and poignant story of
the complex, maddening, wonderful mystery of love.
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The Devil's Disciple
by George Bernard Shaw |
Directed By Keith Scales |
Monday, November 21
7 pm. |
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Tale of the American Revolution... Written By One Of Great Britain's Greatest Minds!
Why did England lose the colonies in the American Revolution? Irish author, essayist,
critic, and man of letters George Bernard Shaw has some ideas...
and in telling them introduces us to Dick Dudgeon (a dashing young
American hero who disdains heroism) and a comical cast of characters
who just might be heroes of the revolution!
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| A Christmas Salmagundi: *
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Christmas Shorts
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Directed By Tobias Andersen,
Trish Egan &
Trisha Pancio Armour |
Monday, December 19
7 pm
&
Saturday, December 24
2 pm |
| A New Holiday Tradition!
Join The Rep for the next ingredient in our holiday
dish. Artistic Director Tobias Andersen
is putting together a Christmas Concoction the likes of which you have
never seen... Join Mt. Hood Rep for a literary
stocking stuffer of short stories in performance this
Christmas. Holiday music and refreshments blend with
classic tales including a fanciful retelling of the classic
poem The Night Before Christmas. Christmas Short
will have your whole family up to the their stockings in
stitches! |
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Rashomon
by Fay and Michael Kanin |
Directed By Debera Ann Lund |
Monday, January 16
7 pm. |
| A Detective Story
From Feudal Japan where the truth depends, literally, on your
point of view!
Adapted from the celebrated film by Japanese master
Akira Kurosawa, who in turn adapted his script from two short
stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon presents four
conflicting, but compelling accounts of the demise of a samurai
and the rape of his wife. The witnesses include the bandit accused
of the crime, the samurai's wife, a woodcutter who was
passing by... and the murdered man himself!
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Away
by Michael Gow |
Directed By
Kate Hawkes |
Monday, February 20
7 pm. |
| A Modern Classic of the Australian Theatre
Three families spend their annual holiday vacations at the
beach, and are thrown together during a storm. Over the
course of their time together divisions are healed, love, life
and death are explored... and Shakespeare is there to help guide
it all! Funny and poignant, Away has become one of the most
produced plays in Australia, and has become a fundamental part
of the national character.
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The Road To Mecca
by Athol Fugard |
Directed By Samantha Van Der Merwe |
Monday, March 20
7 pm. |
| A South African Story Of The True Meaning Of Home
Helen has spent her life turning her home into a garden of
sculpture... a Mecca of beauty among the harsh landscape of 1970's
South Africa. A friend arrives to visit the same day that Helen's
minister tries to persuade her to leave her house and move into
an old folks home. This beautifully wrought drama by
South Africa's best known playwright is sure to leave the audience
asking themselves, "when is it the right time to leave our own Mecca?"
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Time Remembered
By Jean Anouilh |
Directed By Trisha Pancio Armour |
Monday, April 17
7 pm. |
| A French Tale Of Fractured Memory
What begins as a new job for Parisian milliner Amanda quickly
evolves into an absurd plot to place her in the role of a dead
girl... and to gain the love of a prince! This tale from existentialist
playwright Jean Anouilh is full of odd characters, comic situations,
and ruminations on the lasting force of love.
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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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