Monday, February 26, 2018

Something Something Theatre's 2018-19 season

 

From: Something Something Theatre [mailto:info@somethingsomethingtheatre.com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 2:47 PM
Subject: Something Something Theatre's 2018-19 season

 

Something Something Theatre is proud to announce our 2018-19 season.

All plays were written by women.

All are new to Tucson.

 

 

 

Men on Boats

by Jaclyn Backhaus

 

directed by Jasmine Roth

October, 2018 at the Temple Cabaret

 

1869, Arizona.  A band of explorers sets out to travel north on the Colorado River in boats, seeking the fabled Big Canyon.  Led by a one-armed Civil War veteran, this is their (somewhat) true story.  We witness their hilarious missteps, hapless foibles and surprising nobility.  We experience with them the headiness of high adventure and the fear which makes them human.

 

"Men on Boats is marvelously destabilizing both as history and theater.  The stalwartness and selfishness of the adventurers- their cockiness and cluelessness – become biting satire when sent up by women."

- NEW YORK MAGAZINE

 

 

 

When We Were Young and Unafraid

by Sarah Treem

 

directed by Joan O'Dwyer

December 6-23, 2018 at the Community Playhouse

 

1972, Whidbey Island, Washington state.  A woman and her teen-aged daughter quietly go about their business of operating a bed-and-breakfast from their home downstairs.  Upstairs they run a sometimes-shelter for battered women.  In the larger world outside, a feminist revolution is afoot which will soon affect their tenuously-contained sanctuary.   

 

"Ms. Treem…finds the feminist flux and foment in an era that has been more traditionally presented as comically awkward and quaint.  She has come up with a smart and exciting premise to bring characters of different backgrounds – and different notions of what it means to be a woman at a pivotal historical moment - into proximity and conflict."

- THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

 

 

The House of Final Ruin

by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

 

directed by Avis Judd

February/March, 2019 at the Temple Cabaret

 

We're so excited to bring you this world premiere from an extremely talented playwright.

 

Her description:

"Someday, the 'madrina' of 19th century Santa Fe would like to die a good Catholic death and be buried in her beloved church, La Parrochia. But Death is coming sooner than she thinks and the arrival of a needy Protestant, a fortune in gold, and the invasion of the American Army complicate her perfect exit into Purgatory. In order to save her family from ruin and earn her way into Heaven, the gambler must orchestrate a final, high-stakes card game in which all is both lost and won."

 

- Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

 

Ours:

"This all-female six-hander is grounded in history and tradition, steeped in suspense and riddled with wit. It's wonderfully accessible to modern theatre-goers, due largely to McBurnette-Andronicos' finely wrought characters and their universal desires for love, wealth, redemption, a gentle yet meaningful death. "

 

- Joan O'Dwyer

 

 

 

Switzerland

by Joanna Murray Smith

 

directed by Whitney Morton Woodcock

April 4 – 21 at the Community Playhouse

 

1994, Switzerland.  Patricia Highsmith has retired to this charming, neutral country with her pet snails, cats and a small but rare weapons collection.  Highsmith - the author of Strangers on a Train, Carol (the first lesbian novel with a happy ending), and The Talented Mr. Ripley - is content never to write again.  Her publisher thinks otherwise, and sends a young apprentice to persuade her to knock out just one more Ripley.  Please! 

 

"Murray-Smith's work has never been darker or more compelling…It's impossible to know what Highsmith herself would have made of the play.  But it's not hard to imagine her delighting in its intelligence, humour, darkness and gentle unravelling.  It's a truly great play."

- DAILY REVIEW

 

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[We don't have exact dates for two of the plays yet, but when we do, they'll be published on our website, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and in our email newsletter.]


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