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Pterodactyls
By Nicky Silver
October 24 – November 22
“An absurdist black comedy about the demise of the Duncan
family, and by extension, the species. Dysfunction takes on
new meaning and we laugh throughout as we watch the family
disintegrate and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction
lie within us all.”
Pterodactyls
struck me as the flip side of The Skin
of Our Teeth, Thorton Wilder’s antic celebration of
mankind’s ability to muddle through.” – The
New York Times
“There are times-not all that many, admittedly-when
a critic wishes he had never used the word ‘brilliant’ before,
so he could offer it fresh minded and glittering to something
new. And different
” – The
New York Post
“Clever is the word for Pterodactyls
clever,
sharp, witty-it’s a play that takes aim at the main-streamed,
moneyed, conventional American family and buries it under
one satiric jibe after another.” – Theater
Week
Romance
by David Mamet
January 23 – February 21
“Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance
is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that
gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs
and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It’s hay fever season,
and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens
to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according
to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual,
is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up
in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle
East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding
the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in
microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices and
sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and
order degenerates into riotous profanity. “It made me
weep with delight
Romance
is funny. Extremely funny.” – Wall
Street Journal
Freakshow
by Carson Kreitzer
April 17 – May 16
At the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds
to a halt. Things are changing. The anger of being stared
at, trapped, caged, is at war with the comfort of knowing
your place in the universe. But the growing defiance of the
freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds
from the show, collapsing the fragile bubble of sustaining
interdependence? Can the jaded Ringmaster, a profoundly broken
man, find redemption through his love for the Woman With No
Arms and No Legs? In this poetic, gritty world, there may
only be one way out. “Kreitzer proves herself an author
of exceptional compassion, everywhere revealing the humanity
behind apparent monstrosity.” – Alexis Soloski, The
Village Voice