COPENHAGEN by Michael Frayn; a play of ideas combining science, art, a wartime meeting & a brain-teasing structure
PLATH & ORION, two one-act plays, Lanford Wilson’s The Great Nebula in Orion and Greg Cesear’s Plath, Sexton & the Art of Confession; short-form confessionals with character-driven narratives
LIFE x 3, by Yasmina Reza; a theatrical triptych; a dinner party gone awry (translated by Christopher Hampton)
TAKE 5, by Lanford Wilson; five one-act plays: WANDERING, SEXTET (YES), A BETROTHAL, BRONTOSAURUS and A POSTER OF THE COSMOS
THE INVESTIGATION, documentary drama concerning the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965 by Peter Weiss
OCCUPANT, by Edward Albee; a tribute to Louise Nevelson, the play examines self-determination, perseverance and accomplishment
PERHAPS, PERICLES, four actors analyze and perform the play attributed to William Shakespeare and George Wilkins as adapted by Greg Cesear
ELEGY FOR A LADY, by Arthur Miller and THREE WOMEN, by Sylvia Plath, two one-act plays dramatize the psychological struggle within individual consciousness
TRYING, semi-autobiographical play between the aging Judge Biddle and his newly appointed young secretary by Joanna McClelland Glass
ALL THAT FALL, minimal Irish storytelling within the setting of a radio studio environment, by Samuel Beckett
MARRIAGE PLAY, a comic and somber midlife inventory evaluation, by Edward Albee
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS or (Did You Say Sphere?), a satirical “vaudevillian” farce, by Michel de Ghelderode, translated by George Hauger
THE UNEXPECTED MAN, interior monologues reveal desire, self invention and the imaginings of a brief encounter, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
PACK OF LIES, suburban espionage drama of uprooted beliefs, by Hugh Whitemore
WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN (A Chef’s Fable), mythmaking and truth between a chef/murderer and a young reporter, by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin
SUMMER EVENING by Wallace Shawn and
WHAT IS MAKING GILDA SO GRAY? by Tom Eyen, two stylized one-act plays depicting love’s irrationality
THE LARK, a sardonic tale of politics, religion and the Joan of Arc trial, by Jean Anouilh, translated by Christopher Fry, adapted by Lillian Hellman and Greg Cesear
UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, a solo/comic detective story of self-discovery, by Glen Berger
BLUE HEART, two stylized language one-act plays, by Caryl Churchill
STEVIE, from the life and work of Stevie Smith, by Hugh Whitemore
THE STRONGER & PLAYING WITH FIRE, two one-act plays of infidelity, by August Strindberg
THE CHAIRS, theatre of the absurd, by Eugene Ionesco
THE QUEEN AND THE REBELS, a political allegory, by Ugo Betti
LAUGHTER IN THE SHADOW OF THE TREES & ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIES AT VERSAILLES, two one-act plays reflect on mortality, by James Prideaux
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, existential drama, by Luigi Pirandello
THE HOLLOW CROWN, an allegory of the British Monarchy, devised by John Barton
THE BELLE OF AMHERST, from the life and work of Emily Dickinson, by William Luce
Cesear’s Forum / Chicago
REQUIEM FOR A NUN, a story of debasement and divinity, by William Faulkner/Edgewater Theatre
WATERSHEDS, an original musical drama/Puszh Studios
LEMONADE by James Prideaux, SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA by Megan Terry, two one-act plays, funny & dark/Heartland Café Studio Theatre
THE MAIDS, neoclassic tragedy, by Jean Genet/Centre East Studio Theatre
IMPROVISATION OR THE SHEPHERD’S CHAMELEON, an absurdist lampoon, by Eugene Ionesco/Playwright’s Center