FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024
7:00 PM
FREE – reservations not required
Paul and Emile,
or, The Masterpiece
by Kai Maristed
directed by Rebecca Berger
Paul Cezanne and Emile Zola were inseparable as schoolboys in Aix-en-Provence. Once up in Paris they shivered sharing a bed and eating broiled sparrows, impatient for the world to recognize their genius, one as painter, the other as writer. Then, inexplicably, came a bitter falling out. A mystifying two decades of silence.
But what might happen when a curious playwright (yes) brings them together again, unexpectedly, in Cezanne’s studio, at the height of their separate life journeys? Joy? Rage? Old secrets dragged into the light? Tears? Homicide?
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024
1:00 PM
FREE – reservations not required
Word of Rich Relations
by Jody O’Neil
presented in collaboration with Sailor Beware
Money changes everything in this Southern Gothic horror-fantasy that chronicles the psychological unraveling of a woman recently retired from a life spent in servitude to ruinous men. Word of Rich Relations takes its cue from the power dynamic found in the trio of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire by reimagining the Stella character on a journey of her own.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024
7:00 PM
FREE – reservations recommended
It Can’t Happen Here – Again
presented by Writers for Democratic Action
adapted by James Carroll
directed by Jeff Zinn
featuring Dennis Cunningham, D’Arcy Dersham, Susan Lambert, Bob Seay, Sallie Tighe, and William Zielinski
In 1936, It Can’t Happen Here, a stage adaptation by Sinclair Lewis of his own bestselling novel, opened simultaneously in 21 theaters in 17 states across America, one week before that year’s presidential election. It was a warning against the rise of fascism in America.