2011-12 Season

Follow the awakenings of one Victorian family in this hilarious look at racial, sexual, and personal politics. Set in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, Caryl Churchill’s landmark playCloud Nine is about relationships — between women and men, men and men, and women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, sex, power, children, grandmothers, sex, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and sex. “It is all passion and throbbing bodices, heat and parasols, over the top dialogue, and very, very funny.” – Curtain Up

Pam and Richard are hosting their best friends, Wendy and Tom, for a dinner party. An animal sacrifice kicks off the evening, followed by a little more sex, violence, deception, wrestling, and dancing than at previous parties. A darkly comic evening where the line between civilized and primal man is blurred, and where not everyone will survive long enough to enjoy the brownies for dessert. Armed with razor-sharp language, complex characters, and a stunning sense of the theatrical, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb takes the world of Edward Albee to the next level. “Nachtrieb’s bitingly hilarious black comedy spares neither savages nor saints.”- The LA Times

In this intense political allegory, a badly injured pilot drops out of the sky and into a village engaged in a guerrilla struggle to preserve their way of life. In The American Pilot, David Greig goes beyond ritual anti-Americanism to explore the relationship between one global superpower and the rest of the world. “Greig is one of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around.” – The Guardian