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2007-2008 Season Don't Dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti Directed by Christian H. Moe Carbondale Community High School Auditorium November 16 & 17 at 7:30 pm and November 18 at 2pm. When Jacqueline (no one seems to have surnames in this play!) decides to visit her mother for a few days, her husband, Bernard sees the opportunity of a cosy weekend with his new girlfriend. His bachelor pal, Robert rings up to announce his return from Hong Kong, so Bernard invites him along as his alibi, also hiring a Cordon Bleu cook to ensure they don’t go hungry. Convinced his plan is foolproof, Bernard is taking his wife’s suitcase out to the car, when the phone rings and she answers it. From then on the story moves into the surreal world of high-speed farce, with mistaken identity — two girls, both known as Suzy; clandestine relationships,. the wife has a secret lover; hasty improvisation, the cook must play the mistress and vice versa, all carried along on a stream of rapid-fire, double-meaning dialogue. One impossible situation piles on another, as the hapless Robert finds himself the target of amorous attentions from all three ladies, Bernard tries frantically to salvage at least a scrap of illicit bliss from the wreckage of his weekend, and his intended playmate, the glamorous Suzanne, ends up in the kitchen, expected to cook dinner, while Suzette, the cook, is transformed into a femme fatale!
Chapter Two by Neil Simon Directed by Craig Hinde Carbondale Community High School Auditorium February 22 & 23 at 7:30 pm and February 24 at 2pm Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon's portrait of a widowed New York novelist who fears he may never love again and has no interest in dating. Neither does smart, attractive Jennie Malone, who has just returned from getting a Mexican divorce. A grudging five-minute meeting between them blossoms into a passionate, witty romance - until they decide to marry. Pulitzer prize winning author, Neil Simon, has long been a Stage Co. favorite and we're delighted to bring another of his plays to our stage.
Book of Days by Lanford Wilson Directed by Mary Boyle Mugsy McGuire’s Entertainment Center April 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20 at 7:30 pm
Acclaimed by Frank Rich as "a writer who illuminates the deepest dramas of American life with poetry and compassion," Lanford Wilson is one of the most esteemed contemporary American playwrights of our time. Book of Days won the Best Play Award from the American Theater Critics Association. Book of Days is set in a small town dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church, and a community theater. When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done. In Book of Days, Lanford Wilson uses note-perfect language to create characters who are remarkable both for their comic turns and for their enormous depth.
James Thurber's The 13 Clocks Musical Adaptation by Loren Cocking Directed by John Lipe
McCleod Theater on SIUC Campus
May 23, 24 and 25
The show is
an adaptation of a delightful fairy tale, so it’s sure to appeal to children.
Because the musical's book retains James Thurber's slightly cynical wit and his
clever word play, adults will relish it as well.
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