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OUR 2003-2004 SEASON This thing's getting out of control...
Harold Ryan is a Hemingway-styled hunter and explorer who disappeared in 1962 while on an expedition to the Amazon rain forest with his sidekick Looseleaf Harper (the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki). Finally resigned to her husband’s death after eight years, Penelope Ryan and her twelve-year-old son Paul resume their lives in their Manhattan penthouse apartment where Penelope is being courted by two suitors, peace-loving Dr. Norbert Woodly and hawkish vacuum cleaner salesman Herb Shuttle. When Harold unexpectedly walks in the front door one night in 1970 (with Harper in tow), he expects life to simply pick up where it left off. He is appalled to discover that his wife and the world at large have changed considerably in his absence. "Vonnegut's dialogue is not only fast and funny, with
a palpable taste and crackle, but it also means something. And his
comic sense is a superior one; ''Wanda June'' has as many laughs as anything
by Neil Simon." "Fool For Love" by Sam Shepard Winner of the Obie Award. May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from .A critical and popular success, this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humorous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the Old West. (Preceded by the Shepard short play "Red Cross") "Fool For Love is certainly one of the best plays of our
time. Fool For Love may very well be one of the great plays of
the late twentieth century." "SubUrbia" by Eric Bogosian The parking lot of a mini-mall convenience store is the private domain of three men in their very early twenties: Jeff, Buff and Tim. They talk trash, harass the owner of the store and revel in their high-school glory days. Jeff ponders his problematic relationship with his artist girlfriend, Sooze, and Buff fantasizes a relationship with Sooze's best friend, Bee-Bee. Jealousy, anger, and disillusionment are brought into focus by the arrival of an old high-school chum, Pony, who has gone on to become a semi-famous musician. As resentments are exposed and harsh questions are asked, Bogosian's tough, bitter play arrives at an unpredictable, heartbreaking conclusion. "There's no denying Bogosian's crackling intelligence, his rejection
of easy sentimentality, and the way he often does capture the cadences
of alienation."
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