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The upcoming 2008/09 season continues Woolly’s dedication to new work with FOUR WORLD PREMIERES. The season is filled with Woolly’s signature style: explosive texts, brilliantly realized productions, and plenty of humor thrown into the mix. It’s going to be a big, bold, daring season you won't want to miss. Just a few reasons to subscribe:
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MARIA/STUARTWORLD PREMIERE by JASON GROTE August 18 – September 14, 2008 Stuart fights to keep the lid on his mother’s and aunts’ simmering angst. But the family’s secrets channel themselves into a bizarre shapeshifter that guzzles soda and chatters German verse. Friedrich Schiller’s classic tale of warring queens inspires a macabre romp into all that suburban America tries to repress.
“Grote’s fertile imagination rolls back the stone guarding a treasure trove…” – Variety
BOOMby PETER SINN NACHTRIEB November 2 – November 30, 2008 “Sex to change the course of the world…” A grad student’s personal ad lures a randy journalism coed to his subterranean lab, where he studies fish sleep cycles for signs of the apocalypse. Will their “intensely significant coupling” lead to another big bang, or is mankind’s fate in the hands of someone watching from outside the fishbowl?
HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAYtext by ADRIANO SHAPLIN, after Possessed February 2 – March 1, 2009 Famed Philadelphia theatre company Pig Iron transforms a gothic mystery into an orgiastic celebration of nihilism. As a prince lies dying his bitter secretary schemes, an alchemist conjures, and an egocentric tennis coach moves in on the ladies. An existential classic explodes into delicious darkness and antic acrobatics. “A dance-clown theatre ensemble whose fearless performance style is rooted in comic anarchy.” – Variety
ANTEBELLUMWORLD PREMIERE by ROBERT O'HARA March 30 – April 26, 2009 In 1939 Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, a city still struggling with the aftershocks of slavery. Meanwhile in Europe, Hitler’s death camps flourished and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The romance of Hollywood movies and Berlin cabarets collides with history’s harshest cruelties as a forbidden love transcends the bounds of time, race, and religion.
FEVER/DREAMWORLD PREMIERE by SHEILA CALLAGHAN June 1 – June 28, 2009 Chained to his desk in the basement of customer service hell, Segis suddenly finds himself set free in the CEO’s penthouse—but is it a dream? This raucous reinvention of Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream gleefully skewers corporate America with razor-sharp wit and the biggest cast ever assembled on Woolly’s stage. “Callaghan takes a lavish mudbath in broken language.” – The Washington Post “Callaghan…has real insight and a grasp on modernity—with all its obsessions and melancholy—that few playwrights harness with such alacrity.” – Chicago Tribune
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“In 2008/09, we’re breaking boundaries and rewriting history. Our last season received 23 Helen Hayes nominations—more than any other Washington theatre—and our dreams keep getting bigger. Next season’s plays transcend the bounds of time and reality as some of America’s most fearless playwrights conjure ghosts and shape shifters, evolution and apocalypse. These plays explode earlier texts, from a classic Spanish play to a haunting Polish novel to an epic American film, creating fiercely contemporary visions of the historic moment on which we are poised.” – Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz |
