1998–1999
Mainstage
A Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Anne Long Breyer
October 16, 17, 18, & 23, 24, 25
This daring new translation swept the 1997 Tony Awards, hailed by critics as “bold, brilliant, and alive” (The Wall Street Journal). Frank McGinnis brilliantly transformed this 19th-century tragedy into a visceral, gut-wrenching play. (Janet McTeer)
Fighting Over Beverly
by Israel Horovitz
directed by Sean Ruprecht-Belt
December 4, 5, 6, & 11, 12, 13
It’s too late for Beverley to help her twice-divorced daughter, but there still may be time to save herself. Forty-five years after she left England as a war bride, the man she threw over for a dashing American fighter pilot has arrived to bring her home ... as his wife.
A Delicate Balance
by Edward Albee
directed by Amy Allen
February 12, 13, 14, & 19, 20, 21
This classic of Pulitzer Prize acclaim, recently revived on Broadway, is a “beautiful play, easily Albee’s best and most mature … probing, tantalizing comedy … filled with humor and compassion and touched with poetry” (The New York Daily News).
Seven Keys to Baldpate
by George M. Cohan
directed by Teresa Doggett
April 16, 17, 18 & 23, 24, 25
A WEPG revival of “a mysterious melodramatic farce” based on the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers. This raucous comedy will complete WEPG’s 1998-1999 season on a high note.
Readings
Journey’s End
by R. C. Sherriff
directed by Daniel Higgins
November 20, 21, 22
Set in a dugout in the trenches before St. Quentin in 1918, this unflinching look at the War to End All Wars piles horror upon horror, as British soldiers and officers try to preserve not only their lives, but their humanity as well.
Miss Lulu Bett
by Zona Gale
directed by Amy Arnott
January 8, 9, 10
The unmarried Miss Lulu tries to escape life as an unpaid and unappreciated domestic drudge in the home of her condescending sister and despotic brother-in-law in 1912. Zona Gale won the third ever Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this adaptation of her own bestselling novel, one of several in which she exposed the crassness and hypocrisy of American small town life.
What Every Woman Knows
by James M. Barrie
directed by Delia Cummings
March 19, 20, 21
When a handsome young burglar is caught breaking into an English household, it is revealed that he has only been sneaking in to read the books in their library. To avoid prosecution he agrees to marry the family spinster in five years time. Will he honor his contract and will he eer discover her true worth?