2006-2007 Season



Belle Moral:
A Natural History

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

September 15 - October 1

This thrilling new play – set in Belle Moral, a large old stone house on the coast of Scotland, a few miles outside of Edinburgh, 1899 – pulls us into the story of Pearl MacIsaac, a young scientist in a family with extraordinary secrets coursing toward the surface. The play, elegant and dynamic, lets us hear deep inside the walls, attics, candle-lit drawing room. It is almost dizzying in its revelations of the pull of opposites. This piece by a fine Canadian writer is why we keep going to the theater.
Bach at Leipzig

by Itamar Moses

November 3 - 19

“Brilliant… Dazzling… Irresistible… Complex wordplay collides with comic swordplay…”
Based on actual persons and events in Leipzig, 1722 – fashioned into something wholly other – Bach at Leipzig imagines with intelligence and insight how six little-known musicians resort to bribery, blackmail and betrayal to secure the most coveted musical post in all of Europe.
It is a subtly crafted farce that effortlessly confronts profound questions about humanity, God, and art. 

Mariela in the Desert

by Karen Zakarías

January 12 - 28

Winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award, this powerful and truthful play - layered, profoundly moving - is set in the northern desert landscape of Mexico and in the very heart of a family.
The carefully crafted characters seem to really breathe. They are vulnerable, funny, ruthless and contradictory. The desert - red and crackling - burns away all but the deepest roots, the most resilient life.

Scenes from an Execution

by Howard Barker

March 9 - 25

Commissioned in 1985 by the Royal Shakespeare Company, this work by one of England’s leading dramatists is at once savage and comic in its exploration of pain, absence and sexuality. It embodies the power of language both raw and poetic; the insistence on the imaginative as against the naturalistic world; and questions the moral responsibility of the artist in society. Set in Venice not long after the Battle of Lepanto (“…the battle that would once and for all establish the dominance of the Christian over the Muslim world”). The play is rich, colorful – like a Renaissance painting jolted to life.

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

May 11 - 27

A universal favorite, this comic masterwork displays Wilde’s wit and theatrical flair at their very best. His lighthearted send-up of Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head. The playwright’s suggestion that, “we should treat all of the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things with sincere and studied triviality,” might just be an assessment of our own world...maybe... come see what you think.