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| Opening Soon! : American Falls at Catastrophic Theatre | ||||
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 American Fallsby Miki Johnson May 25 - June 9, 2012 As much as any other work to which it might be compared, Miki Johnson's extraordinary debut play American Falls brings to mind Thornton Wilder's masterwork Our Town. Wilder's classic play depicted an epoch once present now past; American Falls is a slice of the times in which we live today. The two plays each feature the inhabitants of small towns and the ways in which their lives become entangled, the ways in which they are together and the ways in which they are apart. A sort of Our Town for our times, American Falls asks those ancient, unanswerable questions: What is it to live? What becomes of the child on the mysterious road to adulthood? What is it like to grow old? What does it mean to die? Read More... |
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| Opening Soon! : My Wonderful Day at Main Street Theater | ||||
| Posted by: Staff Date:13/05/2012 |
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 My Wonderful Dayby Alan Ayckbourn May 24 – June 17, 2012 When you put together a very pregnant woman, an over-the-top tv personality, his fiery wife, his mistress, his hungover best friend, and an all too wise 9 year old – well, it’s going to get crazy. Alan Ayckbourn’s rarely seen comedy My Wonderful Day fuses all of these characters into “…a startling play full of [the playwright’s] rueful, comic wisdom.” Nine year old Winnie Barnstairs observes the whirlwind at her mother’s workplace - a foul-tempered, TV personality, his baby-talking mistress, his vindictive wife, and his hungover friend – and finds herself with more than enough fodder for her homework, an essay entitled “My Wonderful Day...” Read More... |
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