Beowulf Alley Theatre Announces Revised 2009-2010 Main Stage Season
(Tucson, AZ – July 24, 2009) Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown Tucson between Broadway and Congress, today announced revisions for the 2009-2010 main stage season. The scheduled dates chosen for each of the five plays remains the same. The primary change is the need to replace the first play, The Vertical Hour with another selection due to the director’s illness. He and his cast will present The Vertical Hour at the end of the season as a sixth main stage production. Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, now directed by Steve Anderson, and Fool for Love have reversed order.
Performance days and times, and single prices remain the same:
Preview performances, the Friday before the opening Saturday are still $10;
General Admission tickets purchased by phone and at the door are $20;
Online only ticket prices are $18;
Our 5-play season subscription is $70 and subscriptions are still available;
Flex Passes, 4 admissions for $64, are also available.
For more information please go to www.beowulfalley.org or call the box office at 882-0555.
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis in our 95-seat, air-conditioned theatre.
THE REVISED SCHEDULE OF PLAYS AND ADJUSTED DATES ARE:
Seascape by Edward Albee, directed by Michael Fenlason
(Please note that this is a replacement for the originally scheduled play, The Vertical Hour, which will be presented in May/June, 2010 as a season extra, not part of the subscription packages.)
Preview Performance: Friday, September 25
Dialogues with… Sunday, September 27 following the performance
Performances: September 26-October 11, 2009
A romantic comedy and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Seascape is the story of a mature couple on a deserted beach discussing life, love and marriage. Charlie sees rest in his future while Nancy seeks new adventures. Their solitude is broken by an encounter with a very unusual and strange couple, Leslie and Sarah, also contemplating major life changes. Once the couples recover from mutual surprise and fear, the two couples engage in conversation, sharing thoughts and ideas that lead to finding resolutions to their future life journeys. Contains mature themes.
Hats off , and up in the air! A major dramatic event.” –NY Times
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Sara Falconer
Preview Performance: Friday, November 6
Dialogues with… Sunday, November 8 following the performance
Performances November 7-22, 2009
Awarded the 2006 Tony Award for Best New Play and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama… 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. - Dramatists Play Service – May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.
"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation—an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." - —Variety
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, directed by Mike Sultzbach
(Please note that the original dates for this play were switched with Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage)
Preview Performance: Friday, January 15
Dialogues with… Sunday, January 17, 2010 following the performance
Performances: January 16-31, 2010
In a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert. May, a disheveled young woman and Eddie, struggle through recriminations and physical violence. Eventually May and Eddie tire of their struggle and embrace—but it is evident that the respite is temporary and that their love, the curse of the past which haunts them, will remain forever damned and hopeless. May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.
“Winner of the [1984] Obie Award [for Best New American Play], this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humorous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the Old West.” – Dramatists Play Service
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage by Jane Martin, directed by Steve Anderson
(Please note that the original dates for this play were switched with Fool for Love)
Preview Performance: Friday, February 26
Dialogues with… Sunday, February 28, 2010 following the performance
Performances: February 27-March 14, 2010
Big 8, is 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. This bodacious and macabre cross over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness. May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.
“The funniest and the wildest…Adds still another dimension to this author’s body of work..The laughs are nonstop.” – Center Stage
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz, directed by Susan Arnold
Preview Performance: Friday, April 9
Dialogues with… Sunday, April 11, 2010 following the performance
Performances: April 10-25, 2010
A 2006 Pulitzer Prize nominee. 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. – Dramatists Play Service - May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.
"Last of the Boys is about the way the past creates the present and the present repeats the past -- Philadelphia City Paper
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Season Extra Presentation!
First Sunday Season Subscribers may purchase tickets for Sunday, May 30, 2010 for $10.
Full Season Subscribers may purchase tickets for any performance for $14.
Flex Pass holders may purchase tickets for any performance for $16.
These prices apply to the Early Bird Free Subscriptions as well.
The Vertical Hour by David Hare, directed by Philip G. Bennett
Preview Performance: Friday, May 28 $10
Dialogues with… Sunday, May 30, 2010 following the performance
Performances: May 29-June 13, 2010
[A] story of a young American war reporter-turned-academic who travels abroad and finds herself caught in a most surprising romantic triangle, pulled between the affections of her lover and her lover's father. - nytheatre.com - May be inappropriate for persons under 13 years old.
"…this is … a rich, intellectually gripping play…” – guardian.com.uk
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
