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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:24 PM
Beowulf Alley Announces Its 2009-2010 Main Stage Season!
(Feb. 26, 2009 – Tucson, AZ) Beowulf Alley Theatre Company at 11 South 6th Avenue proudly announces the 5 plays selected for the 2009-20 10 Main Stage.
The Vertical Hour by David Hare
Directed by Philip Bennett
September25 –October 11,2009
The Vertical Hour is a thought-provoking exploration of how the political can sometimes intersect, collide with and ultimately dismantle the personal. While the play is positively brimming with cogent and fascinating arguments involving the current political situation, the production only fitfully succeeds in bringing this story to life. Hare fills The Vertical Hour with several of these ethical and philosophical quandaries that serve not only as dramatic interplay between the three main characters, but, also metaphorically as the basis for several of the arguments politicians and intellectuals are having these days concerning the role that America and the West have taken in Iraq, the Middle East and beyond.
“Watching David Hare’s The Vertical Hour is an eye-opening experience — Richly stimulating stuff.” —Michael Billington, The Guardian
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Sara Falconer
November 6 – 22, 2009
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
“A transcendent and deeply affecting new play.” — Entertainment Weekly
Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage by Jane Martin*
Directed by Susan Arnold
January 15–31,2010
Big 8, a feisty rodeo competitor, is a bitter critter facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one eyed Ukranian biker named Black Dog ushers in outrageous violence and horror in this shoot ‘em up, knock ‘em up, cut ‘em up comic romp that roasts the cowboy mentality of western writers like Zane Grey. Showcasing the antic side of this prolific, award winning playwright, this bodacious and macabre cross over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness.
"The funniest and the wildest.... Adds still another dimension to this author's body of work.... The laugh lines are non stop."
— CenterStage
Fool for Love by Sam Shepard
Directed by Mike Sultzbach
February 26 –March 14, 2010
Winner of the Obie Award. For 15 years, Eddie, an aging rodeo rider in today’s American West, and May, a waitress, have had an obsessive, dysfunctional, on-again, off-again love affair. One moment, the pair are drawn together by their insatiable passion for each other; the next, we witness the piercing words firing from their tongues that give ballast to the weight of a nation's buried dreams, like Old West gunslingers in a fight to the finish. Beneath it all, we discover a bond that lies deeper than the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
"It is as mysterious and unsettling—now you see it, now you don't—as spare and, incidentally, as funny as anything he has ever done."
— The New Yorker
Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz
Directed by Susan Arnold
April 9-25, 2010
Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years, they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends and a war that does not.
"... shattering, and its careful revelations and haunting imagery stick with you long after you leave the theater."
— Windy City Times
*Pending final approvals
Early Bird Season Tickets and Single Tickets will go on sale on Monday, March 23, 2009. Please sign up at our website, www.beowulfalley.org, to receive information about Season Ticket and Flex Pass pricing prior to that date. Single ticket prices are $20 by phone or at the door and $18 online. The Preview performance price is $10.
Performances are on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. The first Sunday of each performance includes a post-show discussion with the production team.
For further information, please call (520) 622-4460.
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