2008 SEASON
All regular performances take place Wednesday-Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinees on Thursdays and Sundays at 2pm.
Blackbird
by David Harrower
directed by Sheila Siragusa
July 2-13
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2007 Olivier Award Winner Best New Play
A man and a woman who once had a passionate affair meet fifteen years later when Una arrives unannounced at Ray's office. Una, now only twenty-seven, has come looking for answers. Ray, after a stretch in prison, has a new identity and only Una knows his secret. What ensues is both a high stakes thriller and a tragic love story, a pas-de-deux of shame, regret and passion. David Harrower's riveting play is theater at its most elemental: a head-to-head confrontation that, without any moral judgments, uncovers the shattering truth of an unconventional love.
"The most powerful drama of the season… mesmerizing…extraordinary…a miracle." -- The New York Times
"Four stars! Daring theater far too absent from our stages these days." -- New York Post
Almost, Maine
by John Cariani
directed by Chuck Hudson
July 16-27
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On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter something magical is visiting the hardworking men and women of the mythical town of Almost, Maine. It's Friday night and all around the town, people are falling in and out of love in unexpected ways. John Cariani sprinkles his midwinter night's dream with a flurry of bittersweet magic realism – a woman carries her broken heart in a bag, a misspelled tattoo predicts the future and odd things fall from the heavens. Things may not be what they seem, but the end result is an ode to the joys and perils of romance.
"Magical happenings bloom beneath the snowdrifts." -- The New York Times
"Poignant and witty." -- The Daily News
The Dishwashers
by Morris Panych
directed by Byam Stevens
July 30 - August 10
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Dressler presides over the basement scullery of an upscale eatery, marshaling his forces with a stream of Marxist rhetoric, Ayn Rand-inspired ravings and old fashioned working class pride. Unfortunately, his fellow wage slaves, the ancient Moss and the downwardly mobile Emmett fail to fall into step. Canadian playwright Morris Panych brings his inimitable style – walking the razor's edge between comedy and tragedy – to the plight of men working in the lower depths of a high end restaurant.
"An unconscionably funny fable" -- TorontoStage
"Funny, sad, strange and uplifting, sometimes in the same breath."
-- Vancouver Sun
Tilted House
World Premiere
by Susan Eve Haar
directed by Linsay Firman
August 13 - 24
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Summer. Annie and Robert and their son Henry have taken a beach house on Fire Island. Robert, an ambitious editor has invited Clay, a famous novelist, to visit in hopes of landing the writer's next opus. When Clay accepts and takes up residence, the family is plunged into a world of dangerous games that beget passion and betrayal, and call into question choices made long ago. Haar, whose satire The Darlings highlighted the 2003 CTC season, has delivered an adult drama that extolls the ultimate power of family.
