Weekend Comedy

by Jeanne and Sam Bobrick

Jan. 26,27,28,31. Feb. 1,2,3,4

A quaint mountain cabin in the Catskills is mistakenly booked by two very different couples for the same weekend. When they make the discovery, neither is willing to give up their claim, so they decide to share. Through the course of a few days the conservative, staid, older couple teaches the younger, more care-free twenty-somethings about relationship stability, while they, in turn, learn to recapture their youth and vitality. If you like Neil Simon-style comedy, you'll love this show!

Fuddy Meers

by David Lindsay-Abaire

April 20,21,22,25,26,27,28,29

Because of a brain injury, every morning when Claire wakes up, she begins the day with no memory of what has happened before. On this particular morning she is greeted first by a man who claims to be her husband, then hustled off by a limping, half-deaf man in a ski mask who says he's her brother. The outrageous cast of characters that she meets along the way includes her sullen teen-aged son, her aphasic mother, an idiot thug with a foul-mouthed hand puppet, and a claustrophobic cop. Sound too weird to be funny? Trust us, you won't think so as this comedy keeps you laughing and guessing, along with Claire, at what really counts as a normal day.

Picnic

by William Inge

June15,16,17,20,21,22,23,24

The winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize, this warm-hearted look at Middle America introduces us to Madge and Millie, teenage sisters who couldn't be more different. Madge, the town beauty, has taken an interest in the mysterious boarder next door, a compellingly attractive young man called Hal who's come to town looking to Alan, his former college roommate, for employment. Alan happens to also be Madge's boyfriend. This warm and powerful play is a nostalgic look at relationships and simpler times.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

August 24,25,26,29,30,31, September 1,2

In this, the Bard's most famous and often quoted masterpiece, "the play's the thing." The melancholy Dane, Prince Hamlet, measures the actions he should take upon learning of his father's murder at the hands of his uncle, the new husband to his mother. Ought he take vengeance, or take his own life? Sweeping through the halls of Elsinore Castle is a wealth of intricately drawn characters such as the love-wracked Ophelia, her meddling father Polonius, the scholarly Horatio, and the restless Laertes. Come and experience why this powerful play is still relevant 400 years later.