Don't
Forget to visit the Act II Café
Treat
Yourself!
It's
the place to go for the before and after show drinks, coffee,
desserts, snacks, and a little conversation with friends
(and maybe even an actor or two). Food and drinks served
at street level in the new Act II Cafe.
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Is He Dead?
September 30 – October 24, 2010
Show
Times
2:00 Shows: September 30, October 3, 7,
10, 17, 24
7:30 Shows: September 30, October 1, 2, 7, 8, 9,
14, 15, 21, 22, 23
Richly
intermingling elements of burlesque, farce, and
social satire with a wry look at the world market
in art, Is He Dead? centers
on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France,
who stage the death of a friend to drive up the
price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme
succeed, the artists hatch some hilarious plots
involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral,
and lovers' deceptions.
A
highly entertaining comedy that was written in 1898
by Mark Twain while living in Vienna, Is
He Dead? shows its author's superb
gift for humor operating at its most energetic.
The playscript of Is He Dead? is
based on a manuscript found amongst the Mark Twain
Papers and adapted for the stage by David Ives from
2005 to 2007.
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A
Christmas Carol
November 27 – December 26, 2010
Show
Times
2:00 Shows: November 28, December 2, 5, 9,
12, 19, 26
7:30 Shows: November 27, December 2, 3, 4, 9, 10,
16, 17, 18, 23, 25
Our
2010 holiday show - A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens - was adapted for Festival Theatre
by James Walker. Our very own Christmas
Carol has not been seen on the Festival
Theatre stage since 2005 and it will be a lovely conclusion
to our 20th Anniversary Season!
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Past
Performances in the 2010 Theatre Series
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Fool the Eye
June 17 – August 15, 2010
Show
Times
2:00 Shows: June 17, 20, 24, 27, August 15
7:30 Shows: June 17, 18, 19, 24, 26, July 10, 22,
24, August 5, 6, 14
By
Jean Anouilh (adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher). Originally
a World War II era comedy entitled “Leocadia,”
this is the story of a young prince who fell in love
with a beautiful opera diva and spent three dreamy
days with her before she died of a complicated wardrobe
malfunction.
The
prince cannot seem to get over the loss of his love,
so his doting (and dotty) aunt, the Duchess, recreates
for him a fantasyland reflecting the places that he
and his love visited during their short time together.
Ultimately, the Duchess realizes that even a realistic
setting won’t produce the actual girl, so she
hires a look-alike shop girl to play the part of the
deceased opera star.
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Red,
White and Tuna
July 8 – August 27, 2010
Show
Times
2:00 Shows: July 8, 11, 18, August 8, 19
7:30 Shows: July 8, 9, 23, August 7, 19, 27
By
Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. Tuna
is a viciously funny excursion into small-town Texas
politics, relationships, and heated gossip. Portraying
matronly ladies, cowboy disc jockeys, hippies, and
a dozen other memorable characters in the burg of
Tuna, Texas, two actors take on the raucous fun of
playing multiple roles with quick change fun.
In
this third edition of the Greater Tuna
series, an impending high school reunion brings out
the best – and more often the worst –
in the citizens of Tuna. Who will be crowned the reunion
queen? Nasty spitfire talk among the competitors,
whose extravagant opinions are based on rumor and
suspicion, stirs up comedic moments that get you chuckling
before you realize what's happened.
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Proof
July 31 – August 28, 2010
Show
Times
2:00 Shows: August 1, 12, 22
7:30 Shows: July 31, August 12, 13, 26, 28
By
David Auburn. In this story, we meet twenty-five-year-old
Catherine who sacrificed college to care for her father
(once a brilliant, much-admired mathematician) and
is now left in a kind of limbo after his death. Socially
awkward and a bit of a shut-in, she is gruff with
Hal, a former student who shows up even before the
funeral wanting to root through the countless notebooks
her father kept in the years of his decline, hoping
to find mathematical gold.
Then
comes Claire, Catherine's cosmopolitan, blandly successful,
and pushy sister, with plans to sell their father's
house and take Catherine with her back to New York.
This Pulitzer Prize (2001) and Tony Award-winning
(2001) play crackles with subtle wit while tackling
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