Month: May 2007
Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Laceby Joseph KesselringJune 1 -June 16, 1962 |
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The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff). The film adaptation follows the same basic plot, with a few minor changes. It is customary, after the cast takes several curtain calls, for the final one to finish with the “murder victims” (often well-known local personalities) entering from the basement and joining the cast for the final bow. |
The Madwoman of Chaillot
An Italian Straw Hat
All In the Timing – 2009
May 14 – 23, 2010Directed by
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The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language — and of the audience’s capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives’s characters plunge into black holes called “Philadelphias,” where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which “hello” translates as “velcro” and “fraud” comes out as “freud.”
At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this production of Ives’s plays includes “Sure Thing,” “Words, Words, Words,” “The Universal Language,” “Variations on the Death of Trotsky,” “The Philadelphia,” and “Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread.” “Theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart…Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright.” — Time
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Christopher Harrison Parkhurst Abbot | |
Debbie Barr | |
Jacky LePore | |
Jarrett Francavilla | |
Raven Dunbar | |
Naphtali Brooks | |
Ashley Gotz | |
Tom Madigan | |
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The Pitchfork Disney
February 19 – 28, 2010Produced by FRANCINE MONDI
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Abandoned by Mummy and Daddy, 28-year-old brother-and-sister twins Presley and Haley are hollow-eyed poster children for arrested development. Subsisting on various forms of chocolate and sleeping pills, the creepy and unattractively pale duo lead a whiny, childlike existence – that is, until Cosmo Disney, a strutting cabaret performer, and his masked sidekick, Pitchfork Cavalier, enter their lives and expose them to the terror of the outside world.
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Pride and Prejudice
Leader of the Pack
Jekyll & Hyde
The Odd Couple