2011-2012 Schedule of Discussions

IN THE NEXT ROOM: By Sarah Ruhl
with Theresa Yuschok, MD
Saturday, October 8, 2011 (7:30pm)
Sunday, October 9, 2011 (2pm)
A 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist. In the late 1800s doctors invented a new medical device to treat patients afflicted with "female hysteria." A charming and insightful story of desire, frustration, and sympathy and understanding between the sexes. With the sensibility of a play by George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde as seen through the lyrical lens of one of our finest modern playwrights.

THE PARCHMAN HOUR: By Mike Wiley                                                             
with John Tisdale, DMiv
Saturday, November 12, 2011 (7:30pm)
Sunday, November 13, 2011 (2pm)
In the fiery first months of America's civil rights movement, waves of young people, mostly college students, rode buses into the heart of the Deep South. Many were brutally attacked, arrested, and imprisoned in Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm Penitentiary, where they invented an ingenious pastime to help them endure, a live variety show inspired by programs then popular on radio and television. Jokes, stories, singing and Bible readings sprang from every cell. This nightly event became known as The Parchman Hour. With characters such as Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, The Parchman Hour honors an important piece of history. We are proud to give this inspiring new play its professional premiere. 

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF by Edward Albee 
with William Meyer, MSW
Saturday, December 17, 2011 (7:30pm)
Sunday, December 18, 2011 (2pm)
If love is a battlefield then these are two of the struggle's consummate contenders in this knock-down, drag-out love story from the savagely wicked pen of an American master. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, and so sizzling that the Pulitzer Prize committee chose Virginia Woolf to receive its award for drama, then back-tracked and didn't give an award that year! Join George and Martha and their guests for a gin-soaked evening of fun and games and one dazzlingly nasty fight to the finish.

THE MAKING OF A KING, HENRY IV/HENRY V by William Shakespeare 
with Harold Kudler, MD
Saturday, March 3, 2012 (2pm)
Sunday, March 4, 2012 (2pm)
An epic coming-of-age tale that follows the education of young Prince Hal from his unpromising start in bawdy houses and taverns under the tutelage of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff to his rise as one of England's greatest monarchs, King Henry the Fifth. Travel from palaces to battlefields, from civil war in Britain to battles in the "vasty fields of France" on another of PlayMakers' great journeys.

NOISES OFF by Michael Frayn
with Theresa Yuschok, MD
Saturday, April 21, 2012 (7:30pm)
Sunday, April 22, 2012 (2pm)
In this uproarious comedy, a fifth rate theatre troupe on a bottom tier provincial tour shows us both sides of comedic calamity. A hilarious fiasco of flubbed lines and missed cues ensues onstage, compounded by romantic turmoil offstage. By the time the curtain rings down, both the set and the ingenue will be stripped to their knickers and you'll be helpless with laughter.