Theatre South Carolina
2007/2008 Season

Noises Off
The Best Farce Ever Written
by Michael Frayn
Drayton Hall Theater
September 28-October 7

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"Noises Off is, was, and probably always will be the funniest play written in my lifetime," said New York Times critic Frank Rich. Noises Off begins at the dress rehearsal for a dreadful sex comedy entitled "Nothing On"—the type of play in which girls run about in underwear, men drop trousers, and doors open and shut. By the end of the run, the actors are bored, drunk, and vindictive and everything gets wackier! Hoot, cackle, guffaw and snort at backstage life: sometimes juicier than the show itself. By the author of the award-winning drama Copenhagen, about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. No kidding!

Oh! What a Lovely War
A Satirical Vaudeville
by Joan Littlewood
Longstreet Theatre
November 9-17

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Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile—with a musical entertainment direct from World War I. As the title song goes, “Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh? Oh, it's a shame to take the pay.” A nutty vaudeville, with period songs like ‘Keep The Home Fires Burning’ and ‘It’s A Long Way To Tipperary’ and a cast of colorful clown characters, Oh! What a Lovely War is part Monty Python and part Saving Private Ryan. In all, it’s a vibrant and touching account of the four years that set the pace for the twentieth century.

Crumbs from the Table of Joy
A Slice of African-American Life in the Fifties
By Lynn Nottage
February 22-March 2
Longstreet Theatre

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Godfrey Crump has just lost his wife but he finds solace in Father Divine and the Peace Mission. His daughters lose themselves in the glamour of Hollywood to ease the ache of adolescence and close their eyes to race relations in 1950s Brooklyn. Crumbs from the Table of Joy is about the idea that “we all escape somewhere and take comfort sometimes in things we don't understand." Playwright Lynn Nottage is the award-winning author of Intimate Apparel.

A Cabal of Hypocrites
By Mikhail Bulgakov
April 18-27
Drayton Hall Theater

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Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's 1930 work explores an artist's struggles with governmental control and censorship through this semi-biographical story of the French playwright Moliere. Moliere has just produced the play Tartuffe, much to the displeasure of Church officials, who conspire to discredit the author for what they deem as heretical thought. Bulgakov's play itself was seen by the Stalin-led Soviet government as a dangerous criticism, and was similarly censored, banned after only seven performances.