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Return of the 5th Sister
by Kimberley Lynne
directed by Ryan Whinnem
What do you do when the goddess camps out in the apple
orchard? The Return is an existential fairy tale of four women realizing
and regaining their strength, breaking out from underneath the patriarch,
and awaking their potential as individuals.
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SOD
by Mark Squirek
directed by Ryan Whinnem
Often, we are unaware of how our behavior
is seen by even the most casual observer. Neither do we think about how that
behavior may co me back to haunt us, despite what we do to cover it up.
Mobtown Players
August 4 - August 20, 2006
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The Past is
the Present
Willie Baby
by Joe Dennison,
Carol Weinberg, &
Kimberley Lynne
directed by Marianne Angelella
What would happen if William
Shakespeare’s agent appeared in the office of a local theatre? What if he
demanded royalties for all previous Shakespeare productions?
Willie Baby is a short play considering an artist’s rights and
how little we know of history.
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Memory Garden
by Mark Scharf
directed by Sharon Weaver
Our life is not defined by
what we do, but how we rise after falling.
MEMORY GARDEN
examines how we deal with the anger, longing and confusion brought about by
loss -- and the ways in which we try to hang on to and let go of the past in
order to keep living.
AND
Wilderness
by Mark Scharf
directed by Miriam Bazensky
Killer rabbits in the
suburbs must be stopped! In this bittersweet and poignant comedy, recently
widowed Spencer faces the lawnmower police and wrath of his neighbors when
he decides to let nature take its course with his yard. Just where does the
reach of your arm end and the beginning of your neighbor’s nose begin?
AND
Miss Alice Plays
by Rich Espey
directed by Mark Squirek
The Miss Alice Plays are a series of three
loosely connected ten-minute plays centering on similar themes and
structures. If we could truly put into practice the simple lessons we
learned when we were five, life would be a lot
simpler.
Fell's
Point Corner Theatre
June 29 - July 23,
2006
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Turn
Your Head & Kafka
by Laura Ridgeway
directed by Jenny Tibbels
TURN YOUR HEAD AND KAFKA, a
play based on actual events, submerges audiences in a Kafkaesque world
filled with unrequited love, surreal arrests and revolution.
Run of the Mill
at Loyola
College
June 22 - July 9,
2006
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Split
by Ira Gamerman
directed by Ian Bellnap
Adam has got problems: An
overly impulsive girlfriend, A bossy shrink, an obsessive compulsive mother,
no direction to his life, and a demanding pair of imaginary friends who
resemble Vince Vaughn (circa Swingers) and a Mysterious Eskimo Shaman
(respectively). To make matters worse, Jenny (the girl who reneged on a
promise to deflower Adam in college) has come back into Adam’s life after a
4-year absence. Can Adam confront his own insecurities, confusions, fears,
and past histories in order to set his life straight?
Uncommon Voices
at Fells Point Corner Theatre
August 10 - August 27, 2006
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A Modern Pas De Deux
by Susan Middaugh
directed by Barry Feinstein
A Modern Pas De Deux is a
dramatic comedy about a middle-aged man and woman who meet by accident at a
singles dance. Pickles and Paul's romance, which reflects man and woman's
yearning to find the right partner in life, is the main story line of the
play.
Are they too set in their ways to acknowledge their need for one another, to
fall in love?
Vagabond Players
Jul 28 - August 6,
2006
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Hope's Arbor
by Rich Espey
directed Jayme Kilburn
Hope, seventeen, a student
at Thwaite Academy comes
of age through parental confrontation, a fat camp, college
essay seminar, various on-line acquaintances, a true
friend and, ultimately, autonomy and self-acceptance.
The
Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
8/11 - 8/27, 2006
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