Different
Stages
Presents
Mrs.
Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
by
Christopher Durang
Director Karen
Jambon
Set
Design Laura
Sandberg
Light
Design Amanda
Harris
Costume
Design Talena
Martinez
Musical
Director Nick
Nixon
Alternate
Pianist Don
Hill
Stage
Manager Jennifer
McKenna
Producer Norman
Blumensaadt
CHARACTERS
AND CAST
The Ghost of
Christmas Past,
Present and
Future Julianna Wright
Ebenezer
Scrooge Eric
Porter
Mrs. Bob
Cratchit Nicole Marosis
Bob Crachit Steven Laing
Tiny Tim Nikki Zook
Little Nell
Cratchit Andres
Smith
Cratchit Child
1 Amy Lewis
Cratchit Child
2 Gabriel
Smith
Gentlemen
Collecting for Christmas
(Kenneth Lay,
Jeffrey Skilling) Kirk German, Scott Tesh
Jacob Marley’s
Ghost Tyler
Jones
Young Jacob Marley Amy
Lewis
Young Ebenezer Gabriel
Smith
Mr. Fezziwig Kirk
German
Mrs. Fezziwig Mary
Alice Carnes
Fezziwig Daughters Andrea
Smith
Colleen
Berger
The Beadle Kirk
German
The Beadle’s Wife Mary
Alice Carnes
Edvar Scott Tesh
Hedwig Colleen
Berger
Bartender 1 Tyler
Jones
Bartender 2 Kirk
German
Clarence (the Angel) Tyler
Jones
George Bailey Scott
Tesh
Zuzu Bailey Amy
Lewis
Monica (The Angel) Colleen
Berger
The Nice Mrs. Cratchit Colleen
Berger
Serena the
Maid Scott
Tesh
Location:
Dicken’s London 1840’s
And
New York, the present
Time:
Christmastime.
There
will be one intermission.
Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild
Christmas Binge
is produced by special arrangement
with Dramatist’s Play
Service
Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild
Christmas Binge
Commissioned and
originally produced by
City Theatre Company,
Pittsburgh
THE PRODUCTION
COMPANY
COLLEEN
BERGER (Hedvig, Nice Mrs. Bob, Monica) graduated with a BFA from Texas State
University in 2005. While attending college, she performed in such plays as
Tennessee Williams' The Lady Of Larkspur Lotion, and Noel
Coward's Blithe Spirit. Recently, Colleen appeared in a short film
called Breakin' Hearts which went on
to win several awards at the 48 Hour Film Festival. In August, she made her
professional theater debut as Berdine in the Vortex Theater's Psycho Beach Party. As her exciting year
draws to a close, Colleen is thrilled and grateful for the opportunity to use
some of her many dialects, and indulge in a "wild binge".
MARY ALICE CARNES (Mrs.
Fezziwig, The Beadle’s Wife)
Mary Alice’s performances
include Mrs. Medlock in Zilker Theatre
Production’s, The Secret Garden and Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods,
Annie with Broadway Texas, The Tavern with Different Stages, The
Wonder Hat and The King Stag with Second Youth,
and The Gondoliers, Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado with the Gilbert and
Sullivan Society. Mary Alice’s directing projects include Marriage is Forever for Different
Stages/Teatro Vivo, My Visits with MGM (My Grandmother Marta),
Roosters for Different Stages,
and Petra’s Sueño for Teatro Vivo. She has worked as Assistant
Director and dramaturg for Crazy For
You and Annie Get Your Gun both presented by Zilker
Theater Productions.
NORMAN
BLUMENSAADT (Producer) is the
Producing Artistic Director for Different Stages. Among the numerous shows that he has directed, a selection of
just some the 39 plays he has directed are The
House of Bernarda Alba, An Ideal
Husband, The Misses Overbeck, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Appointment
with Death, The Beard of Avon and The Hollow. In celebration
of his long and outstanding work in the Austin theater scene, the Austin Circle
of Theaters bestowed upon Norman the 1998 Deacon Crain/John Bustin Award. This
season he directs The Goat or Who is
Sylvia and The Constant Wife –
two plays about husbands, wives and infidelity.
KIRK GERMAN (Kenneth Lay, Mr. Fezziwig,
The Beadle, Bartender2) is intrigued by the fact that his first theatrical
foray outside of a musical in over a year is... a play with musical numbers. Recent performances which featured his
singing and, um,
"dancing" include TexArts'
concert of The Music Man at the Paramount,
Zilker's concert of Floyd Collins at
Zach Scott, and Theatre at the J's "Best Musical" & "Best
Cast"-award-winning show, Hello
Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Kirk has
acted regionally in Batboy, Kiss Me Kate,
Cosi Fan Tutte, Damn Yankees, and
several "Best of" Frontera Fest selections; he is also the lead
singer for The Greatest American Heroes.
He dedicates this performance to his students, especially his seniors in
British literature, who valiantly dove into the glorious words of Charles
Dickens this fall.
AMANDA HARRIS (Light Design) is a
Senior BFA Lighting Design student at Texas State University-San
Marcos. Recently she worked as the Assistant Master Electrician at
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival and the Assistant Lighting Designer and
Master Electrician for Texas State's production of The Night of the Iguana. In the spring she will be designing
Texas State's Much Ado about Nothing.
Next summer she will be in Stratford studying Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare
Company. This is her second production with Different Stages.
DON HILL (Alternate Pianist) Don made his professional debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute for Baton Rouge Opera,
and has made award-winning appearances in over 40 productions of musical
theater, operetta and grand opera with companies such as the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Arkansas Symphonies, Ohio Light Opera, Baton Rouge Opera, New Orleans
Opera, Miami Valley Dinner Theater, Arkansas Repertory Theater and Baton Rouge
Little Theater. Since moving to Austin, he has become a member of Conspirare
under Craig Hella Johnson, and has recently performed with the St. David’s
Episcopal Choir, St. Mary’s Cathedral Schola Cantorum and Austin Civic Chorus.
KAREN JAMBON (Director) This
is the 6th show Karen has directed for Different Stage, having previously
staged The Rise and Rise of Daniel
Rocket, Fuddy Meers, Betty's Summer Vacation, Arms and The Man, and The Playboy of the Western World. She also enjoys acting and was last seen as
Rumplestiltskin at the Scottish Rite Children's Theatre
TYLER JONES (Jacob
Marley’s Ghost, Bartender 1, Clarence-The Angel) is happy to
appear in his 3rd Different Stages production after appearing in The Hollow and The Beard of Avon. New
York credits: Rosencranz and Guildenstern
are Dead, Swing Out Bernadette!, In My Dreams, Avatar(all with Native Aliens). A Midsummer Night's Dream, and A Winter's Tale (Shakespeare NYC). Other credits include Bitten!(Loaded Gun Theory), Die !Mommy! Die (TheatreLab Houston), Forever Plaid (Great Caruso Dinner
Theater), Assassins, Sweeney Todd, The
World Goes Round, A Chorus Line, A
Funny Thing Happened...(SHSU Theater Department). Tyler would like to thank
Karen for bringing this important and timely play to the city of Austin
(wink wink).
STEVEN LAING (Bob Cratchit) A recent
transplant to Austin, Steven is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA
in theatre from Hanover College where his performances included: Henry IV, The Trojan Women, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and She Stoops to Conquer for which he received an Irene Ryan
Scholarship nomination. Steven's play Doctor
Ra was a finalist in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival's
National Playwrighting Program and in 2004 Steven was the Campbell-Randsdale
Performing Arts Scholarship recipient. Steven's Austin area credits include A Moon for the Misbegotten at the
Renascence Austin Theatre and the film Lightning
Strikes Twice.
AMY LEWIS (Young Jacob Marley, Child 1,
Zuzu Bailey)
holds a BFA in theatre from McMurry University. She has most recently been seen in Bitten a Zombie Rock Odyssey with Loaded
Gun Theory and The Hollow with
Different Stages. This is Amy's third
show with Different Stages, and she is thrilled to be working with such
talented people, who also happen to be her dear friends.
TALENA MARTINEZ (Costume Designer)
Talena is very excited to be working with Different Stages designing her first
show for the company. She has done odd
jobs for Different Stages such as running sound and affixing bald caps (and
peeling them off again). She has been
in Austin for just over a year after moving here from Indianapolis where she
designed several shows including Cinderella,
Jekyll and Hyde, The Good Doctor, Othello
and others. Her Austin credits include
Assistant Designer to the Lovely Marann Faget on The Beard of Avon, and
Ethos' Bell(e). She has been in
theater "all her life" because all the world is a stage and she takes
any chance she can to be a part of the act.
NICOLE MAROSIS (Mrs. Bob Cratchit)
attended California Institute of the Arts majoring in vocal performance,
studied classical voice in Italy and Switzerland and was in the acting conservatory
program of PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria and Solvang, CA., where she appeared
in many main-stage musicals and plays. Her recent favorite roles include
Fraulein Kost in Cabaret at ZACH,
Miss Jane in a concert version of Floyd
Collins produced by Scott Schroeder productions at ZACH. Henrietta in The Hollow, Miss Pryce in Appointment
with Death and
Mariella/Alba/Pepita in Marriage is Forever,
all for Different Stages. She also treasures playing Agnes in Dancing at Lughnasa at SBCT. She would like to thank her family for their love
and support and her theater family for the laughs and support hose.
JENNIFER MCKENNA (Asst
Director/Stage Manager) You may have seen Jennifer in Sam Bass Community
Theater’s The Women or being a triple
threat in H.M.S. Pinafore over the
summer. Coming up next, Jennifer is making
her directorial debut with an evening of two one-act plays, When God Comes for Breakfast You Don’t Burn The Toast and The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Shortly
thereafter, she will be appearing in Sam Bass’s Orson’s Shadow as Joan
Plowright. Jennifer would like to thank the cast and crew for all the “whopper”
of a good time and Karen for the
opportunity to collaborate on such a great project. Jennifer thanks her friends
and colleagues whose continued support of her career is valued and appreciated
NICK NIXON (Musical
Director) Nick
Nixon is active as a free lance pianist in the Austin/San Antonio area, and is
enjoying his first opportunity to work with Different Stages. In addition to this production, Nick is the
pianist/band leader for River City Pops, and also works with his jazz group
featuring Austin vocalist, Jolie Guidry.
Other credits include performances with Wayne Newton, Joan Rivers, Glen
Campbell, Dolly Parton, and other luminaries.
A
Texas native, Nick has also been active as a teacher/conductor, contest
adjudicator, and educational consultant for orchestras, concert bands, and jazz
bands for the past thirty years. His
most recent education experience includes being the conductor of the Bowie High
School Orchestra department, as well as a conductor for the Austin Youth Orchestras.
ERIC
PORTER (Scrooge) Mr. Porter holds a BFA in acting from the University of Texas
and an MFA in acting from ACT in San Francisco. He has been a professional
actor, director, teacher, and for a short time worked as the assistant to the
SR VP of Casting at Paramount . Eric has performed in such regional theaters as
PCPA Theaterfest, ACT, the Cleveland PlayHouse, St. Louis Rep., Monomoy Theater,
and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He has also worked in New York in such
productions as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Butchers Daughter, and Three
Tall Women. Austin audiences last saw Mr. Porter's work 10 years ago in
such performances as The Importance of
Being Earnest the southwest premiere of The
Night Larry Kissed Me and was honored with the ACOT outstanding lead actor
award for his performance in Steel Kiss at the Vortex. He wishes to thank
his fellow castmates and the Austin Theater community for their support.
LAURA SANDBERG (Scenic Designer)
has been designing scenery and lighting around Austin for many years
now; as much as her very demanding dogs and cats can tolerate, and her day
job as a ‘computer geek’ permits. Well OK, maybe a little more than her
job really permits, but who can resist challenges such as this one? Other
favorite design projects have included A
Perfect Ganesh, Gary Grinkle's
Battles with Wrinkles, The Hobbit, The Snow
Queen, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Mad Forest, King Stag, and Allen Robertson's Beauty and the Beast.
ANDREA SMITH (Little Nell, Fezziwig
Daughter) This is Andreá's first show with Different Stages, and she's
pleased as punch to have the opportunity! She has been doing this theatre
"thing" a long time, and some of her favorite shows
include: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Laura (Laura), Dancing at
Lughnasa (Chris), Steel Magnolias
(Shelby), and (First Grader #2) in the Rabbit Hill Elementary School staged
reading of The Legend of the Bluebonnet.
She is a singer, dancer, choreographer, painter, potter, and "parent"
to Max, the golden retriever. In 'real life' she works in HR at
IBM.
GABRIEL SMITH (Child 2, Young Ebenezer)
graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in English Teaching
and a minor in Theatre. He moved to Austin last year to work with children and
pursue his acting career. Credits in his home state include The Guys, Ghosts, and Measure for
Measure. Here in Austin, Gabe directed this Spring's production of The Rose of Treason at Texas Hillel and
appeared in The Muses: Memories of a
House earlier this year.
SCOTT TESH (Jeffrey Skilling, Edvar, George Bailey, Serena) Scot
is thrilled to make his fourth appearance
with Different Stages in this role. Recently, he won the Austin Critics
Table Award for Best Performance in a Comedy for William Shakespeare in The Beard of Avon (Different Stages) and Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western
World (for Different Stages). Other recent appearances include Pericles in Pericles (for Different Stages) and
Gerry Evans in Dancing at Lughnasa
(at Sam Bass). Favorite previous roles include
Jess in The Complete Works of Wllm Shakespeare
Abridged (New Heights Theatre), Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barter Theatre), Trent Conway in Six Degrees of Separation (Main Street
Theatre). He has been blessed with three wonderful families—in the
theatre, at work, and at home. He thanks all three for their support and
encouragement.
JULIANA
ELIZABETH WRIGHT (Ghost of Christmas, Past, Present & Future) Julie is
pleased to be involved in her second production with Different Stages. You may
have seen her in productions in Austin that include Susannah in Tintypes (Violet Crown Players), Midge
in The Hollow (Different Stages), Sojourner Truth in A Woman
Called Truth (Second Youth Family Theatre), and Donkey in The Bremen Town Musicians (Second
Youth), a role for which she received a B. Iden Payne Nomination. Julie
received her A.A. from San Antonio College and moved to Austin to complete her
B.A. in Theatre Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. During the day
she works at KLRU-TV, the local PBS station and in her off time, she is the
co-artistic director of Second Youth Family Theatre, a local children’s theatre
company. She would like to thank the cast of Binge for all of the laughs and her friends for all of their
support
NIKKI ZOOK (Tiny Tim) is
a native Austinite with a soul-deep love of acting. In the past year or so,
Nikki has been very busy in Austin theatre. She starred in Appointment with Death (Austin Critics Table Award); The Playboy of the Western World (B.
Iden Payne nomination); and The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe; with supporting roles in Twelfth Night (Austin Critics Table Award); and Dancing at Lughnasa. As an Austin
Shakespeare Festival company member, Nikki will be appearing in Love’s Labors Lost in May 2007 at Zilker
Park. When she’s not acting, she enjoys singing karaoke with friends, knitting,
watching movies, trying to get auditions to be in movies, and hanging out with
her husband and her 2 cats.
PRODUCTION
STAFF
Light Operator/Sound Operator Michael Brock
Set Construction Laura
Sandberg, Bobby Ramirez, Scott Tesh,
Nikki Zook, Jennifer McKenna,
Eric Porter, Steven Laing
Properties Norman
Blumensaadt, Karen Jambon
Costumes Talena
Martinez, Brandy Davis, Jon Roberts
Jessica
Cohen, Rachel Eccleston
Graphic Artist Sarah Seaton
Photographer-Publicity Brett
Brookshire
Production Photographer Michael
Brock
Program Norman
Blumensaadt
Properties Karen Jambon, Norman Blumensaadt
Publicity Carol
Ginn, Norman Blumensaadt, Scott Tesh
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Christopher Durang
is a playwright whose plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination,
Best Book of a Musical, 1978), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains
It All For You (Obie award; off-Bway run 1981-83), Beyond Therapy (on Broadway
in 1982, with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow), Baby with the Bathwater
(Playwrights Horizons, 1983), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Public Theatre,
1985; Obie award, Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild
(Playwrights Horizons, 1987), Durang/Durang (an evening of six plays at Manhattan
Theatre Club, 1994, including the Tennessee Williams’ parody, For Whom the
Southern Belle Tolls), Sex and Longing (Lincoln Center Theatre production at
the Cort Theatre, 1996, starring Sigourney Weaver), and Betty’s Summer Vacation
(Playwrights Horizons, 1999; Obie award).
His most recent works are Mrs.
Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, which premiered at City Theatre in
Pittsburgh in 2002. And the musical Adrift in Macao, with music by Peter
Melnick and book and lyrics by Durang, which premiered at New York Stage and
Film in summer 2002, and is under option for off-Broadway 2003-04.
Durang is also a performer, and
acted with E. Katherine Kerr in the N.Y. premiere of Laughing Wild, and with
Jean Smart in the L.A. production. He shared in an acting ensemble Obie for The
Marriage of Bette and Boo; and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson has
performed his crackpot cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne at the Criterion Center,
Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a
1996 Bistro Award.
In the early 80s, he and Sigourney Weaver
co-wrote and performed in their acclaimed Brecht-Weill parody, Das Lusitania
Songspiel, and were both nominated for Drama Desk awards for Best Performer in
a Musical.
In 1993 he sang in the five person off-Broadway
Sondheim revue, Putting It Together, with Julie Andrews at the Manhattan Theatre
Club. And he played a singing Congressman in the Encores presentation of Call
Me Madam with Tyne Daly at City Center.
In movies, he has appeared
in The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, and
The Cowboy Way, among others.
He has a B.A. from Harvard College,
and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.
In 1995 he
won the prestigious three-year Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award; as
part of his grant, he ran a writing workshop for adult children of alcoholics.
In 2000 he won the Sidney Kingsley Playwriting Award.
ABOUT THE PLAY
I was asked by Tracey Brigder, artistic director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh, to write a comic alternative Christmas play.
I wasn’t sure what topic I was going to choose, and I was looking around at the various Christmas literature. Dicken’s A Christmas Carol and Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life seemed the two most dominant Christmas stories. I had seen A Christmas Carol many times, especially the various movie versions. My favorite, like many, is the British 1951 version starring the fabulous Alastair Sims. I had never read the actual Dickens story and finally did so.
Anyway, somewhere in the midst of relooking at the Dickens story, I suddenly wondered what would happen in Mrs. Bob Cratchit – who is barely in the story or in the movies, but merely exists as a stoic, “good” mother and wife, who bears all the family suffering with never a complaint – just hated her life and wanted out. What if there was a rebel in the midst of A Christmas Carol, a Mrs. Cratchit who hated the suffering of her life and rails against it, and tried to escape it?
Christopher Durang
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKS
Lisa Scheps and the
play! Theater Group, Russ Wiseman & Dougherty
Arts Center, Austin Circle of Theaters, Jennifer Underwood & Karen Jambon, Andrea Smith for use of the keyboard, St. Edward’s University
costume shop, Buffy Manners, State Theater
Different Stages, Inc. has been a
community-based organization since its inception in 1981 and incorporation in
1984. It produces works by playwrights
whom we believe to be defining forces in theatre. We seek to entertain with performances that reveal life in all
its comedy, tragedy and intensity; and we hope to educate by choosing plays
that provide exceptional insight into the human condition. By challenging ourselves as artists and our
audiences as participants, we endeavor to provide the community with vigorous
and exciting live theatre.
Board of Directors: Karen Jambon T.J. Moreno, Norman Blumensaadt Operating
Board: Norman E. Blumensaadt, Sarah
Seton, Royce Gehrels, and Paula Ruth Gilbert.
Funding and Donations
Director Level $5000+
The City of Austin
Actor Level $1000 - $5000
Karen Jambon & Jennifer Underwood
Stage Manager Level $500-$999
Designer Level $250-$499
Royce
Gehrels, Bruce McCann, Emily and Kent Erington,
Connie McMillan, Harvey Guion
Stage Hand
Level $100-$249
Karen
Kuykendall, Irene Dubberley, Sarah & David Seaton Keith Yawn, Pamela Bates,
Marla Boye, Melanie & Travis Dean, Anonymous, Ann Bower
Audience Level
$20-$99
Miriam Rubin, David Smith & Tom White,
M.D., Rebecca Robinson, Reba Gillman, Charles Ramirez Berg,
IN-KIND DONATIONS
Mary Alice
Carnes, Sarah Seaton
This
project is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division
and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
DIFFERENT STAGES’ REPERTORY
Begun as Small
Potatoes Theatrical Company
1981: August Strindberg’s Creditors
and The Stronger. 1982:
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. 1983: George Bernard Shaw’s
Candida; Anton Chekhov’s The Brute, Swan Song, and Celebration. 1984: Luigi Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You
Think You Are); Jane Martin’s Talking With… 1985: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9; William
Shakespeare’s As You Like It; Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants;
Michael Weller’s Moonchildren. 1986:
Amlin Gray’s How I Got That Story; William Shakespeare’s The
Winter’s Tale; Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon. 1987: Michael Weller’s Loose Ends;
Aristophanes’ The Wasps; Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart; Arthur
Schnitzler’s Anatol. 1988:
Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk
Wood; Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky; Jean Racine’s Phaedra;
Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Misanthrope. 1989: Caryl Churchill’s Fen; Charles
Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle; William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of
Venice. 1990: Eric Overmeyer’s On
the Verge; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Milan
Kundera’s Jacques and His Master; Tom White’s The Trouble with Tofu;
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.
1991: George Kelly’s The Show-Off; George Bernard
Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb;
Mozart/Lorenzo da Ponte’s Così fan Tutte; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The
Learnèd Ladies. 1992:
Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind; Carlo Gozzi’s The Raven;
Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck; Charles MacArthur’s Johnny on a Spot;
George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer. 1993: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s
Good; Charles Ludlam’s The Secret Lives of the Sexists; Tennessee
Williams’ Orpheus Descending. 1994:
Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans; William
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline; George M. Cohan’s The Tavern; Marlayne
Meyer’s Etta Jenks. 1995:
Pierre Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love; Tom Stoppard’s Travesties;
Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me; Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Diary of
a Scoundrel. 1996: Caryl Churchill’s Mad
Forest; Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee; William Congreve’s The
Way of the World. 1997: Terrence
McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh; Dorothy Parker’s Here We Are; Alan
Ayckbourn’s Drinking Companion; Terrence McNally’s Noon; George
M. Cohan’s Seven Keys to Baldpate; Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the
Paycock. 1998: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia;
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt;
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. 1999:
Edit Villareal’s My Visits with MGM; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The
Hypochondriac (tr. Martin Sorrel); Edward
Percy and Reginald Denham’s Ladies in Retirement; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle
Vanya. 2000: Peter Parnell’s The
Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket; Ann
Ciccolella’s Fruits and Vegetables; George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly’s Merton of the Movies; Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of
Inishmaan. 2001: Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters; George Bernard Shaw’s
The Devil’s Disciple; J. B. Priestly’s Dangerous Corner;
Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke.
2002: Ann Ciccolella’s Madame X; David Linsay-Abaire’s Fuddy
Meers; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest; Federico Garcia
Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba.
2003: Christopher Durang’s Betty’s
Summer Vacation; Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, William Shakespeare’s
Two Gentlemen of Verona; Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. 2004:
John Patrick’s The Hasty Heart; Tom White’s The Misses Overbeck;
Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. 2005:
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Edit Villareal’s Marriage
is Forever; Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death; John
Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. 2006: Two into War (The Gifts of War
and The Retreating World); Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon;
Agatha Christie’s The Hollow. Christopher Durang’s Mrs’Bob Cratchit’s
Wild Christmas Binge. 2007: Edward
Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia. Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and
Lovage, W. Sommerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife.