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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.

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2008/09 SUBSCRIPTION SEASON

 

MARIA/STUART

WORLD PREMIERE by JASON GROTE
directed by PAM MACKINNON

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

 

BOOM

by PETER SINN NACHTRIEB
directed by JOHN VREEKE

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?


“Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways.” – The New York Times


HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY

text by ADRIANO SHAPLIN, after Possessed
by Witold Gombrowicz
created & conceived by
PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY

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


ANTEBELLUM

WORLD PREMIERE by ROBERT O'HARA
directed by CHAY YEW

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.


“O’Hara… is toying with accepted notions about history, race and sexual identity to make a point about the ways in which Americans perceive— or fail to perceive—the lessons of the past.” – The New York Times


FEVER/DREAM

WORLD PREMIERE by SHEILA CALLAGHAN
directed by HOWARD SHALWITZ

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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IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING

WORLD PREMIERE created and performed by MIKE DAISEY
directed by JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY

July 15 – 20, 2008

Dubbed “the master storyteller” by The New York Times, Mike Daisey has perfected a high-wire act of extemporaneous comedy balanced with devastating insight. Now he turns his caustic wit and sharp eye on the Department of Homeland Security, probing the meaning of safety and the price America will pay for it.

Part of the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival

 

MacHOMER

created and performed by RICK MILLER
adapted from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
with characters created by Matt Groening
directed by SEAN LYNCH

October 8 – 12, 2008

Virtuosic performer Rick Miller brings you 85% of the Bard’s original text delivered by over 50 familiar voices from The Simpsons. This sublimely silly multi-media update of Shakespeare’s chilling tragedy has been a smash hit with sell-out crowds across North America and around the globe.

“If you miss this treat, slap your head and go D’OH!” – Vancouver Sun

 

TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND

created by GREG ALLEN, written, directed, and performed by THE NEO-FUTURISTS

December 15, 2008 – January 4, 2009

An underground Chicago favorite, this long-running late-night hit returns to Woolly with brand new material. The eccentric Neo-Futurists race against the clock to perform 30 miniature plays in 60 breathless minutes. With a menu of vignettes ranging from zany to risqué to profound, it’s the perfect interactive holiday treat for DC’s quickwitted audiences.

“Fast, smart, risky and f@#king funny!” – Washington City Paper

 

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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