Our 1997-1998 Season
Noises Off
Directed by Barbara Pettis
This smash Broadway hit is "a farce about farce". Never missing a trick, it has as its first act a pastiche of traditional farce; as its second, a contemporary variant on the formula; as its third, an elaborate undermining of it. The play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing Nothing On, a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps into this play-within-a-play a hilarious melee of stock characters and situations.
"Voices rise and trousers fall. . . .A farce that makes you think as well as laugh." --London Times Literary Supplement
"A joyous and loving reminder that the theatre really does go on, even when the show falls apart."--New York Times
Towards Zero
At a lovely old house on the coast, Camilla Tressilian is hosting Nevile Strange and his new wife Kay, along with Audrey, Nevile's former wife. Also on hand, among others, is Mary Aldin, companion and secretary to Camilla, Mathew Treves, the family lawyer, and Thomas Royde, a Malaysia planter who hopes to marry Audrey. Amid rising tensions among Nevile and his wives, Royde, and Ted Latimer, a suave young man who is an intimate friend of Kay's, a murder occurs. The clues, at first so clear-cut, become more complex as Treves and Superintendent Battle unravel the appalling truth.
Company
A landmark musical featuring snapshots from the life of a New York bachelor whose best friends are five married couples. His relationship with the "marrieds" both complicates and is complicated by his three single girlfriends. Features the Sondheim classics "Side by Side," "Being Alive," "Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch," and of course, the title song, "Company."