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The Actors Company Theatre THE ACTORS COMPANY THEatRE 2009/2010 Season BEDROOM FARCE T he A ctors INCIDENT AT VICHY C ompany T heatre Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris & Simon Jones Co-Artistic Directors EST. 1992 THE RUNNER THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE STUMBLES TACT/THE Actors ComPany Theatre continues its ascent as one of NYC’s leading Off-Broadway theatre companies, mining the riches of our collected theatrical heritage to bring you beautifully THE SEA crafted plays that have been undeservedly lost or forgotten, yet bear a powerful message for today’s audiences. We invite you to join us this season on our Mainstage at Theatre Row for two enthralling plays from two extraordinary talents. Opening the season is Pulitzer Prize winner Sidney Howard’s razor sharp look at greed in the stylish 30’s comedy, The Late Christopher Bean - in its first New York production since its Broadway premiere 75 years ago. In the spring, we’ll examine literary giant T.S. Eliot’s profound and moving exploration of self-deception and redemption in his classic work, The Cocktail Party. These two splendid plays, along with our popular Salon Series, HOME carry on TACT’s tradition celebrating the actor, the playwright and the rediscovered classic. We look forward to having you with us. Photos by Stephen Kunken & Jennifer Maufrais Kelly www.tactnyc.org Our 2009/10 season is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, DESIGN: TMA Design TE HER P 2009 LA TO he IS T HR C PREViews NOVember 1 to 9, 2009 N Opening noVember 11 EA Performances throUgh December 5 B The Mainstage LATE christopher BEAN by sidney howard Based upon “Prenez Garde a la Peinture” by Rene FAUchois directed by jenn thompson All hell breaks loose when a celebrated painter’s early works are traced to the humble home n e of a country doctor. Both a biting satire on the k n u K destructive power of greed and a touching view of n e h p a family in turmoil, this feisty comedy will have you e t S : o t cheering for the most unlikely of heroines. o h P The Beckett Theatre Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street NYC collides with Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30PM New York's sophisticated Art World in Sidney Howard's Saturdays at 2PM and 8PM. Sundays at 3PM sly 1930s comedy. *Special 7:30PM performance Tuesday, November 24. Yankee practicality No performance Thanksgiving Day, November 26. 2010 PREViews MARCH 7 to 15, 2010 Opening MARCH 17 Performances throUgh APRIL 10 The Cocktail Mainstage Party by T.S. ELiot directed by Scott ALAN EVANS Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne are throwing a party at their fashionable London flat. The guests arrive only to discover that their hostess is nowhere to be found and a rather strange man, who no one knows, seems right at home. Ruthless and compassionate, this Cocktail Party embodies the day-to-day struggle of domestic life while turning the classic “drawing room comedy” on its head. The Beckett Theatre TMA Design by photo Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street NYC to the brilliant, witty world Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30PM of THE CocktaiL Party – T.S. Eliot’s profound Saturdays at 2PM and 8PM. Sundays at 3PM You’reexploration invited of self-deception and redemption. Waters of the Moon by N.C.Hunter, 1951 TACT Directed by Victor Pappas alon Series Performances December 18, 19, 20, 21, 2009 Our popular Salon Series is the New Years Eve, in the English countryside... foundation of TACT’s success. These unique presentations offer ...near Dartmoor, the Lancasters skid their Rolls Royce into a an intimate theatrical experience Just before ditch during a severe snowstorm. They seek shelter nearby in a S - enjOYed EXclUSIVelY BY respectable, though rather run-down, residential hotel. To the hotel’s THE ActORS OUR SUbscRIbeRS - and include permanent residents, the sophisticated new arrivals provide an complimentary refreshments with electric shock to their flat-line existence, and hopes and emotions are C O M P A N Y the cast. raised that had long since been abandoned in their quiet hum-drum All Salon performances are held at the newLY renoVated lives. The original production starred Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike and TheatRE TACT STUDIO 900 Broadway, Suite 905, NYC, with the following Wendy Hiller. schedule: Fridays at 7:30 PM*, Saturdays at 2:00 & 7:30, Sundays at 2:00 and Mondays at 7:30. TALK-BACKS with the cast follow every Saturday and Candle-Light Sunday matinee. by Siegfried Geyer, adapted by P.G.Wodehouse, 1927 Directed by Gregory Salata ENGLISH ECCENTRICS Performances January 22, 23, 24, 25, 2010 In 1933, Edith Sitwell, a distinctly odd bird herself, published “English Eccentrics” a delightful detailing of strange, yet endear- ing, behavior of a uniquely Anglo-Saxon kind. Many English women nor linen by candle-light. playwrights have also found themselves drawn to quirky, original lifestyles and the motives behind them. For our seventeenth ChooseIn his employer’s neither absence, Josef, Prince Rudolph’s valet, invites a series of TACT Salon performances, we strolled along some of the young woman he knows only as a pretty voice on the telephone, to stranger shores of these peculiarities and are pleased to present his masters home, and, in order to impress her, disguises himself as these treasures we picked up along the tideline: his employer. Wodehouse, best known for creating the characters Jeeves and Wooster, turns Geyer’s play into an uproarious satire on class differences and a delightful variant on the theme of mistaken identities. This gracious 1927 comedy originally starred Leslie Howard The Devil Passes and Gertrude Lawrence. by Benn W. Levy, 1930 SALON SERIES Directed by Scott Alan Evans 2009 / 2010 Performances October 2, 3, 4, 5, 2009 The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse by Barré Lyndon, 1937 would you pay to get want you most desire? Directed by Drew Barr Performances May 14, 15, 16, 17, 2010 In the stylish country home of writer D.C. Magnus – egged on byWhat the mysterious price Reverend Nick Lucy – a group of English has a secret. intellectuals and artists engage in a little game of Truth or Dare. When asked to reveal what it is they desire most, the surprises By day, in his prestigious Harley Street medical practice, he attends stem not so much from their answers, but how the charismatic Dr. Clitterhouse to a wealthy and influential clientele. By night, however, he conducts Rev. Lucy proposes to make each of their dreams come true. experiments in studying the criminal mind, using himself as the guinea The original cast included Basil Rathbone, Sybil Thorndike, Diana pig. The good doctor sees himself as a pioneer in medical science, but Wynyard, and Ernest Thesiger. can even the best intentions justify murder? The original production featured Cedric Hardwicke as the eponymous Clitterhouse, a role taken over by Edward G. Robinson for the subsequent film version. This Series made possible by a grant from BARBARA FLEISCHMAN *New this season! Friday evenings at 7:30PM Titles subject to availability and change without notice CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris & Simon Jones COMPANY $139 x = $ Mark Alhadeff, Sean Arbuckle, Subscription $139 Mary Bacon, Jamie Bennett, JOIN US! • 1 ticket to each Mainstage production (35% discount) Eve Bianco, Nora Chester, • All 4 Salon productions (members only) Cynthia Darlow, Francesca • All Member Privileges Di Mauro, Richard Ferrone, BECOME A MEMBER $134 x = $ Todd Gearhart, Delphi Subscription Harrington, Kelly Hutchinson, - Previe W O • 1 ticket to each Mainstage productionnly $134 Larry Keith, Jack Koenig, Darrie Lawrence, RonMcClary, See siX EXtraordinary PLays for one Low price (1st 9 performances only!) 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