Our 2010 Summer Season
Supported in part by funds provided by the Sarasota County Arts Council, Tourist Development Council and the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners.
 

~ a stirring story of a family torn apart by deception

Considered Ibsen’s most controversial play, Ghosts caused a furor when it was first published and it remains one of the Norwegian master’s most influential works. Mrs. Alving wants to protect her late husband’s memory and avoid the awful truth: he was a cheating, immoral philanderer whose public reputation was a sham. Things begin to unravel when their dying son, Osvald, announces his plan to marry the family’s maid. This is a must-see play, as timely today as the most recent headlines for its piercing insights into maintaining appearances at all costs. Rick Davis’ and Brian Johnston’s “spare, clear and briskly colloquial translation” (San Francisco Chronicle) is directed by Gil Lazier and stars Jessica 
K. Peterson as Helene Alving.

8:00 pm June 24, 25, 26, 30; July 1*, 2, 3, 7, 8*, 9, 10
2:00 pm June 26, 27*; July 2, 3*, 10, 11

“touches the heart and mind in equal measure” ~ Toronto Star

Michael Healey’s poignant drama about the complex ties that bind a pair of World War II veterans is loaded with twists and surprises. Boyhood friends Morgan and Angus have been living together as farmers since they returned home from the war, where Angus suffered a brain injury that left him with little capacity for memory. Things change when Miles, a young actor, comes to help them on the farm. There’s plenty of humor as the city kid experiences life on the farm, but Miles’ well-intentioned meddling leads to catastrophic changes in all their lives. Directed by Carole Kleinberg, The Drawer Boy stars to Ken Ferrigni, Kenneth Tigar and Don Walker.

8:00 pm July 15, 16, 17, 21, 22*, 23, 24, 28, 29*, 30, 31
2:00 pm July 17, 18*, 24, 25*, 31; August 1

“powerfully unsettling … an enormously moving play” ~ New York Times

Side Man tells the story of a troubled family set against the backdrop of the waning years of the jazz era. The play is told in selected flashbacks by Clifford as he relates the story of his father, a passionate and talented jazz trumpeter, and his mother, a woman whose marriage was destroyed by her husband’s devotion to his music. It is a broken family with no heroes or villains, only people doing the best they can at a time of vast changes in the music world. Side Man took the New York theater world by storm when it garnered the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright, eventually going on to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winning the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play. Directed by Jim Wise, Side Man features Dan Bright, Steve DuMouchel and Robert Herrle.

8:00 pm August 5, 6, 7, 11, 12*, 13, 14, 18, 19*, 20, 21
2:00 pm August 7, 8*, 14, 15*, 21, 22