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Stay in Dallas...come to Theatre Three...see the world!
Theatre Three is staging a world tour of theatre during
the 2008-2009 season. Beginning in July 2008 with the comic
mayhem of a garden festival at an English manor house, the
season concludes in June 2009 with the harrowing drama of
a South African courtroom. The shows between include a homegrown
military drama, a romantic musical set in Florence, a witty
Spanish Golden Age comedy, a modern French flirtatious farce,
and a classic mystery set on the Nile River. Theatre Three’s
2008-2009 subscription season begins July 10, 2008 and concludes
June 14, 2009.
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by Sir Alan Ayckbourn
House is one of two comedies
intended to be performed simultaneously by the same cast
in two adjacent theatre spaces. House and its
counterpart comedy, Garden, were huge theatrical
hits when performed in two of the spaces at The Royal
National Theatre in London. Though each of the plays is
complete in and of itself, the characters move between
the house (Theatre Three) and the garden (Theatre Too),
fitting perfectly into the puzzle plots of the two funny
shows. Subscribers will be seated in Theatre Three for
HOUSE as part of their subscription. As part of their
subscription benefit, subscribers get half-priced admissions
to GARDEN and other Theatre Too productions of
the 2008-2009 Season.
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sizzling drama by John Patrick
Shanley
Set on a United Sates Marine Corps
base in North Carolina in 1971 three officers (the commander,
his black executive officer and the new base chaplain)
are on a collision course over race, women, and authority
– both military and moral authority. In this play, Pulitzer
winning Shanley fills the drama with provocative tensions
between the military mindset, the pro and anti war turmoil
of the times, the complexities of race, and tests of loyalties
and loves.
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music by Adam Guettel, book by Craig Lucas
Few Broadway musicals
have ever inspired the admiration of critics and audiences
as thoroughly as this sublime romantic story set in Italy.
Its long-running Lincoln Center production garnered an armload
of awards including six prestigious Tonys. Set in the 1950s,
a youthful Italian lad is doted on by his Tuscan family.
His passions are deeply stirred by a beautiful American
tourist, accompanied by her protective mother. When it turns
out there are more significant barriers than language to
the match, the American mother and Italian family must put
aside cherished beliefs if their beloved children can seek
happiness together.
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by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, new English language
version by Jac Alder
In the late sixteen hundreds,
witty cloak and dagger romances set the fashion for the
Golden Age of Spanish literature. These entertaining plays
were filled with wit, intellect and mischievous humor
that thoroughly delighted the Spanish playgoers. Trysts
in Toledo follows the romantic confusions of a houseful
of young nobles and their roguish servants. Astonishingly,
one of the greatest literary figures of that time was
a nun, Sor Juana, living in “New Spain” which we now call
Mexico. Her work displays verbal ingenuity; a dizzyingly
complex plot played at top speed, and shamelessly wears
its fun-making on its sleeve. A passionate advocate of
women’s rights, Sor Juana has a unique position both in
secular literature and in the church.
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breakneck farce by Marc Camoletti, English language
version by Robin Hawdon
Infidelities and frustrated couplings
are a long French literary specialty. Moliere, Marivaux,
and Feydeau abound with witty repartee as men scramble
after women, and women delight in the pursuit. In this
recent Paris (and London) hit, a very modern French husband
is planning to host a dinner in his wife’s absence. The
dinner is a prelude to a liaison with his mistress, a
plan the husband has divulged to his best friend. But,
surprise! Can you guess who the best friend has as his
mistress? And who is this beguiling female chef sent to
concoct the perfect seductive meal?
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a 1930’s exotic mystery by Dame Agatha Christie
An elegant honeymoon cruise on the
Nile for the attractive young aristocrats turns strange
and dangerous with the surprise appearance of the young
husband’s stalker. Despite both the protection of the bride’s
guardian (who also embarks conveniently and unexpectedly)
and the odd assemblage of other passengers pursuing solutions
to ancient mysteries, perils mount for the giddy romantic
couple. Before the doomed ship reaches its downriver destination,
an audacious conspiracy roils the waters of the timeless
river and lays bare the blackest hearts of criminal intrigue.
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book by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill
Set in South Africa, this dramatic musical play (based on
the celebrated novel Cry of the Beloved Country by Alan
Payton) tells the story of a poor but deeply religious black
pastor whose faith is supremely tested as he seeks to solve
his son’s disappearance. He finds his son embroiled in desperate
criminal acts of defiance; acts that bring him into a courtroom
accused of murdering the son of a wealthy white landowner.
This is a sweeping, epic tale crowned by an astonishing
conclusion of racial reconciliation. The moving drama is
framed by the magnificent music of Kurt Weill, showcasing
thrilling soloists and splendid choristers.
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