Announcing the G.B. Community Theatre 2011-2012 Season!
Posted 8/29/2011 / Labels: Theatre
Theater gets off to a rollicking start when G. B. Community Theatre opens a lively season of stage entertainment with “Run For Your Wife.” This superb example of the British farce tells the story of a taxi driver who gets away with having two wives that live five minutes apart. He’s achieved this remarkable feat by maintaining both a clever lifestyle and an irregular work schedule. And from his point of view, all is well. That is, until an accident wreaks havoc on his domestic bliss! Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double life from being exposed. How smart can an ordinary taxi driver be? And can he prevent two wives from finding out about each other? Ray Cooney’s hilarious tale will answer all these questions and more when the season opens on October 7th!
November brings Henrick Ibsen’s classic and revolutionary drama to the stage. A well-crafted play, “A Doll’s House” portrays a controlling husband and his submissive wife, Nora. When their idealized home life collapses, Nora comes to the realization that she must make an enormous change in order to find her true self. Often called the first “feminist” play, this timeless and emotion-packed drama opens on November 4th.
Following December’s annual production of “The Nutcracker,” G. B. Community Theatre returns to the stage on January 13th with: An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? Yes! They’re all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairy tale, “Into the Woods.” When a baker and his wife learn they've been cursed by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell which entails swindling, lying to, and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk) but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later! One of Sondheim's most popular works, “Into the Woods” is a relevant piece and a rare modern classic.
Then, imagine what would happen if the deputy mayor of New York City invited some influential friends for an anniversary party and they arrived to find him delirious from a gunshot wound and his wife nowhere in sight. Let the story spinning begin! In “Rumors,” award-winning comedy playwright Neil Simon has spun up some doozies that G.B. audiences are sure to love! This stage favorite will chase away all your winter doldrums beginning February 10th.
With the coming of spring comes the final show of the season. Oscar Wilde's most perfect comedy, loved for its sensational characters and popular one-liners, “The Importance of Being Earnest” will open on March 23rd. Young bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each assume a pseudonym to woo the women who have won their hearts. Abandoned as an infant and now living in a country manor, Jack has fallen for Algernon's cousin Gwendolen, the daughter of the formidable Lady Bracknell. In order to meet with her in London he invents "Ernest," a fictitious brother who demands his attention in the city. Meanwhile Algernon escapes his obligations in London to visit his friend "Bunbury" in the country where he meets and falls in love with Jack's ward, Cecily, setting the stage for clever manipulations and hilarious confusion!
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