Wonder of the World

a comedy by David Lindsey-Abaire

Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband’s sweater drawer.  It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on.  It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water’s edge.

“Full frontal lunacy is on display.  A most assuredly fresh and hilarious tragicomedy of marital discord run amok.  Lindsay-Abaire’s flare for the absurd combines nicely with an ability to pull laughs out of any situation.  Absolutely hysterical. “ - Variety

directed by : Tim Bohn

Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music

a comedy by Lee Blessing

November 12, 13, 16, 17 at 7:30   Admission:  $8.00 in advance / $10.00 at the door

A sharply drawn and very funny play about the personal heartaches and public eccentricities of two women living over a good-ole-boy bar in Houston Texas.  Eve Wilfong, who lives over the “Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar” is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who’s been asked to leave her convent.  It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment and even bark like a dog.  Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of her experiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world.  What follows is simply comic and well-observed, but romantic and affecting as well.

directed by : Bob Simpson

The Butler Did It

a comedy/thriller by Walter Marks and Peter Marks

A deft and diabolically clever thriller mingles laughter and chills as it skillfully unwinds its twisted tale of murder and mayhem in the glittering world of the theatre.  The scene is set where Anthony J. Lefcourt, writer and director, is rehearsing his new play, a “classic whodunit” (in which all the characters are named Butler) with which he hopes to regain the success that has eluded him in recent seasons.  Desperately eager to stimulate his cast to their best efforts, he has deliberately withheld the final scene of the play from them.  

“…ample opportunity here for laughs and double-whammy thrills” –The New York Times,  “…a genuinely amusing burlesque of those good old ‘30s movie thrillers in which the killer is unmasked in the final moments.” – The New York Daily News

directed by : Molly Simpson

The Visit

a tragicomedy by Friedrich Durrenmatt

adapted by Maurice Valency

A consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.  The play takes place “somewhere in Central Europe” and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town.  But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Durrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.

“Durrenmatt has wicked sense of the ridiculous…He combines laughter with a moralist’s outrage at the evil of money and power.  He combines a poetic sense of irony with abrasive Brechtian social criticism.” – The Record

directed by : Tim Bohn