Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Dates: Feb. 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm.
SYNOPSIS:
Edward Albee’s classic story of the rot that can live beneath the veneer of supposedly ideal domesticity takes new life on our stage. George, a middle-aged History professor at a small New England university, is married to Martha, the university President’s daughter. We meet them at home, immediately after a faculty mixer hosted by Martha’s father to introduce Nick, new to the Biology department, and his wife Honey. We learn that Martha has invited the young couple over to enjoy after-party drinks, and that George and Martha’s relationship seems entirely based on cruel mockery, verbal one-upsmanship and prodigious drinking. In the end, an evening of taunting, flirting and eventual adultery, as well as Georges relationship with Martha, is revealed to be nothing more than a cruel fantasy, acted out for others.
Evil Dead: The Musical
Dates: May 28, 29, 30 June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm
SYNOPSIS:
A cult-classic film put to song in person. Five college kids go into the woods for spring break and break into an abandoned cabin. They find a tape player with a recording of a professor reading aloud from the Necronomicon ex Mortis. When played, the recording brings the woods to life along with an evil presence that possesses and then swiftly dispatches the kids. Repeatedly coming back to life…bad puns ensue. The daughter of the professor, her boyfriend, and a random guy go to the cabin conveniently later on and happen to have the missing pages to the Necronomicon that can seal away the evil. After her boyfriend an random guy are killed, she reads the first passage (to make the evil flesh – cue huge dance number) and then reads the second passage to seal it away, but is killed halfway thru…Ash kills everyone, they come back to life and so does the girl and she finishes reading the passage and seals the evil away.
Dorothy Meets Alice or the Wizard of Wonderland
August 7, 14 at 11am and 1pm; 8, 15 at 12pm
SYNOPSIS:
This new play version of the delightful meeting of two of literature’s most famous young ladies unfolds when a young man puts off a book report till the last minute, then suddenly finds himself in a strange place somewhere between Oz and Wonderland. It then becomes his responsibility to unscramble the stories and steer the familiar characters—the Cowardly Lion, the Mad Hatter, the Scarecrow and the White Rabbit, among others—to their ultimate destinations while avoiding the Wicked Witch and the Red Queen. This hilarious, adventuresome romp is filled with laughter and surprises at every turn. And a couple of lessons emerge along the way as well.
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha (an original work)
Dates: October 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 7pm
SYNOPSIS:
It is Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha — a church created by 15-year-old Chris Penrose as a way to prove to his mother, Una, that he is an adult and capable of running his own life. When Una’s mother Marilyn arrives for a surprise visit, the Sabbath ceremony takes a backseat to the drama that arises as Chris argues his independence from Una while Una attempts to maintain the emotional and physical balance she has worked so hard to keep in spite of Marilyn’s constant criticism and Chris’s teenage angst.
This original work by Virginia Tech English professor Ed Falco is an intense character-driven piece that examines the relationship between parent and child as children strive to be independent from their mothers’ hold over them.
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