The Vaudevilles of Chekov
February 23–26, 2005
Short plays by Anton Chekhov
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The Alien Corn
The Bear
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
A Jubilee
The Proposal
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This is Our Youth
April 20–23, 2005
A play by Kenneth Lonergan
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Set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, This Is Our Youth follows 48 hours in the lives of three very lost young souls. Kenneth Lonergan’s award-winning play is a lacerating, meticulous, and hilarious snapshot of the simmering moment between adolescence and adulthood. The play takes place in Dennis Ziegler's apartment in March 1982. Dennis's friend Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old, has just been kicked out of his house and stolen $15,000 from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father. Dennis spends some of the money on cocaine, hoping to sell it to a friend of his for much more. Jessica Goldman, an "anxiously insightful" fashion student, comes over and Warren hopes that he can use the money to entice her into bed. The play explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity, as well as the Reagan Era in which it takes place: the characters feel adrift in a country that now rejects the 1960s-style liberalism that they were brought up to believe in.
The New York Times says, "In a season in which some of the wise men of the theater have been trying to force-feed insipid fare…to young audiences, it’s sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teenagers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap—This Is Our Youth—by turns caustic, cruel, and compassionate—is the real real world."
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The Andersonville Trial
October 5–8, 2005
A play by Saul Levitt
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The Vietnamization of New Jersey?
November 9-11, 2005
A play by Christopher Durang
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The Vietnamization of New Jersey (An American Tragedy) starts off with a New Jersey family who await their son’s return from Vietnam. Upon his return they discover he is blind and now has a Vietnamese wife. Allow bedlam to ensue. The play begins in a modest, mild-mannered New Jersey kitchen and spirals out of control from there. The play's entertaining characters deliver a fast-paced gut-punch of a performance that is both humorous and tragic.
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The Braggart Soldier
April 19–22, 2006
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