In this engaging story about the implications of asking “What if...”, a first-time publisher struggles with a decision to release as his first book either the memoirs of his lover or his best friend’s tome of a novel, all under the influence of a mysterious printing machine that foretells the future results of his decision. The Violet Hour premiered on Broadway in 2003. Richard Greenberg is the Tony-winning author of Take Me Out.
Take a trip into the mindset of society’s margins through uncompromising snapshots of women laboring through life on the Fens, the eastern farming villages of England. A small cast portrays multiple characters whose dour livelihoods are further threatened by the swelling tides of commercialism and globalization. Churchill is one of the leading British playwrights of the last half-century and author of the award-winning plays Cloud Nine and Top Girls, which had its Broadway premiere in May, 2008.
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
February 20 - March 1, 2009
Drayton Hall Theatre
Travel through time with the absurdly comic Antrobus family in this surrealist Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic by the author of Our Town. As we see our heroes survive history’s calamities, we are reminded, in Wilder’s inimitable style, that throughout history mankind has essentially remained the same, always escaping catastrophe by “the skin of our teeth.”
Mother Courage
and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Translation by David Hare
April 17 - 26, 2009
Drayton Hall Theatre
This timeless indictment of war and its costs is considered one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Using Brecht’s distinct blend of affecting language and overt theatricality, the play centers around the legendary anti-heroine Mother Courage, who conspires to profit from the Thirty Years War, but in the process sees her three children lost to it. Noted actress and USC Professor Robyn Hunt will lead a first-rate cast as Brecht’s flawed central character.
