2015 Season
"Foreign"
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]
February 20th - March 29th.
The play is directed by Will Shupe
Starring: Will Shupe, Austin Miller and Evan Austin
Elite Theatre Company is excited to present The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]. This comedy by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield parodies the plays of William Shakespeare with all of them being performed by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than certain characters. The fourth wall is nonexistent in the performance with the actors speaking directly to the audience during much of the play, and some scenes involve audience participation. The director and stage crew may also be directly involved in the performance and become characters themselves.
February 20th - March 29th.
The play is directed by Will Shupe
Starring: Will Shupe, Austin Miller and Evan Austin
Elite Theatre Company is excited to present The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]. This comedy by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield parodies the plays of William Shakespeare with all of them being performed by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than certain characters. The fourth wall is nonexistent in the performance with the actors speaking directly to the audience during much of the play, and some scenes involve audience participation. The director and stage crew may also be directly involved in the performance and become characters themselves.
April 17 - May 24
Death and the Maiden Political Thriller by Ariel Dorfman Directed by Shawn Lanz Set in an unnamed country that is, like the author's native Chile, emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after effects of repression on hearts and souls. Paulina Escobar's husband Gerardo is to head an investigation into past human rights abuses. A Dr. Miranda stops at Escobar's to congratulate Gerardo. Paulina overhears them speaking and is convinced that Miranda supervised her prison torture sessions. She ties him to a chair and conducts her own interrogation, gun in hand. Escobar doesn't know whether to believe his distraught wife or his persuasive new friend. This white knuckle thriller is a riveting intellectual and emotional tug of war. |
June 12 - July 12
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Musical Comedy Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Directed by Arryck Adams Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book the play is about an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents (played by adults), who vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul crushing, pout inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box. |
September 4 - October 4
The Derry Slope Off
World Premiere Drama by Jack Gilhooley
Director N.J. Smeets
Deirdre Lynch moved to America from Derry, Northern Ireland, after an early tumultuous life in the notorious Irish Republican Army and two days after a terrorist’s bomb killed seven, including four British soldiers. While the young men who planted the bomb were arrested and convicted, a young woman accomplice was never found. According to the locals she “sloped off” (or disappeared).
That was 40 years ago. Deirdre settled into American respectability, married a Derry immigrant and raised a family. While her children were aware of their mother’s anti-British sentiments and youthful IRA sympathies, they viewed her political musings as nostalgic bravado. But her daughter Erin entered the US military after 9/11 and was wounded in Iraq – while her mates were killed – by a terrorist’s hidden bomb. After her discharge, Erin took a trip to her parent’s Derry neighborhood strictly to discover her roots. But old timers who remembered the fearsome Deirdre were convinced that she was the missing killer. Having been the victim of the same sort of deadly cowardice, Erin is horrified.
Now the family patriarch is dying and the siblings reconnoiter at their parents’ home. With her new-found information, Erin will confront her mother with the shattering facts.
The Derry Slope Off
World Premiere Drama by Jack Gilhooley
Director N.J. Smeets
Deirdre Lynch moved to America from Derry, Northern Ireland, after an early tumultuous life in the notorious Irish Republican Army and two days after a terrorist’s bomb killed seven, including four British soldiers. While the young men who planted the bomb were arrested and convicted, a young woman accomplice was never found. According to the locals she “sloped off” (or disappeared).
That was 40 years ago. Deirdre settled into American respectability, married a Derry immigrant and raised a family. While her children were aware of their mother’s anti-British sentiments and youthful IRA sympathies, they viewed her political musings as nostalgic bravado. But her daughter Erin entered the US military after 9/11 and was wounded in Iraq – while her mates were killed – by a terrorist’s hidden bomb. After her discharge, Erin took a trip to her parent’s Derry neighborhood strictly to discover her roots. But old timers who remembered the fearsome Deirdre were convinced that she was the missing killer. Having been the victim of the same sort of deadly cowardice, Erin is horrified.
Now the family patriarch is dying and the siblings reconnoiter at their parents’ home. With her new-found information, Erin will confront her mother with the shattering facts.
October 23 - November 22
The Lion in Winter
Dramatic Comedy by James Goldman
Directed by Tom Eubanks
Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons – this is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who are locked in a free for all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom. The queen, and wealthiest woman in the world, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been kept in prison since raising an army against her husband, King Henry II. Let out only for holidays, the play centers around the inner conflicts of the royal family as they fight over both a kingdom, as well as King Henry’s paramour, during the Christmas of 1183. As Eleanor says, “every family has its ups and downs,” and this royal family is no exception.
The Lion in Winter
Dramatic Comedy by James Goldman
Directed by Tom Eubanks
Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons – this is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who are locked in a free for all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom. The queen, and wealthiest woman in the world, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been kept in prison since raising an army against her husband, King Henry II. Let out only for holidays, the play centers around the inner conflicts of the royal family as they fight over both a kingdom, as well as King Henry’s paramour, during the Christmas of 1183. As Eleanor says, “every family has its ups and downs,” and this royal family is no exception.
December 4 - December 20
The Christmas Express
Holiday Comedy by Pat Cook
Directed by John Eslick
"This is the most hopeless place in the world!" Hilda intones as she and Satch, her assistant, argue over what time it is. She dreams of faraway places and only finds tedium in running the Holly Railway Station. That is, until Leo Tannenbaum drops in out of nowhere the day before Christmas Eve. Suddenly, an old radio that hasn't worked in years springs to life, the local group of carolers (which usually yowls like a gang of wet cats) begins to sound like the Morman Tabernacle Choir and the whole town gets the Christmas spirit. Coincidence? Or is Leo doing all this? Even Satch changes his tune when it turns out that Leo might be on the run. This nostalgic theatrical greeting card is full of eccentric small town characters, wise-cracking their way to finding the true wonder of Christmas. And on the way, they make us all wish we could take a ride on The Christmas Express.
(Not included in the Season Subscription)
The Christmas Express
Holiday Comedy by Pat Cook
Directed by John Eslick
"This is the most hopeless place in the world!" Hilda intones as she and Satch, her assistant, argue over what time it is. She dreams of faraway places and only finds tedium in running the Holly Railway Station. That is, until Leo Tannenbaum drops in out of nowhere the day before Christmas Eve. Suddenly, an old radio that hasn't worked in years springs to life, the local group of carolers (which usually yowls like a gang of wet cats) begins to sound like the Morman Tabernacle Choir and the whole town gets the Christmas spirit. Coincidence? Or is Leo doing all this? Even Satch changes his tune when it turns out that Leo might be on the run. This nostalgic theatrical greeting card is full of eccentric small town characters, wise-cracking their way to finding the true wonder of Christmas. And on the way, they make us all wish we could take a ride on The Christmas Express.
(Not included in the Season Subscription)
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