2010 Season

Enchanted April
by Matthew Barber
Directed by Susan Abrams
April 23 - May 15, 2010

Enchanted April delightfully brings together four uniquely different women escaping from dismal, war scarred London to the warm sun and blooming wisteria of San Salvatore. Leaving husbands and societal obligations behind, the desperate Hampstead housewives Lotty and Rose, severe Mrs. Graves, and seductive Lady Caroline, along with some unexpected guests, learn to appreciate each other while rediscovering how to laugh and love under the Italian sun.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Jay Presson Allen
Directed by Jane Farnol
July 9 - 31, 2010

Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is set in Scotland in the 1930s. The play, by Jay Presson Allen, tells the story of a headstrong, passionate, eccentric teacher in a private school for girls. Jean Brodie ignores the curriculum of the staid school and influences her impressionable charges with her over-romanticized world view. Dismissing the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her pupils are "la crème de la crème." She is a teacher who cares deeply for her girls. The problem is she cares about all the wrong things. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her portrayal of Jean Brodie in the 1969 movie and Zoe Caldwell a Tony Award in the 1968 Broadway production.

Dancing At Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Directed by Francis A. Daley
September 24 - October 16, 2010

Set in Ireland’s County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg, this is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts’ cottage when he was seven years old during the late summer days when love briefly seems possible for three of the aunts and the family welcomes home the frail elder brother, who has returned from a life as missionary in Africa. The play takes place around the festival of Lughnasa, the festival of the first fruits, when the harvest is welcomed.

A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Directed by John Taylor
December 3 - January 1, 2011

All your Christmases will live again in the magic of Dylan Thomas’ poetic language. "I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or twelve days and twelve nights when I was six." Despite the fact that this is a Welsh Christmas and the music is also Welsh, Dylan Thomas has managed to universalize the very essence of Christmas as any child anywhere might perceive it. If the play has a plot it is the story of Christmas Day itself, from its quiet, magical beginning full of thrilling expectations to the end when the boy Dylan creeps up to the bed, replete with the joy of a perfect Christmas. This is Christmas just the way Christmas always should be.