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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
by Tom Stoppard          directed by Blanka Zizka
September 17 – October 19, 2008
“Triumphant…Rock ‘n’ Roll is arguably Stoppard’s finest play…he is a magician, and this is a passionate, decades-spanning tale of love, revolution, and music!”
-The New York Times

This extraordinary theatrical event from four-time Tony® Award winner Tom Stoppard (The Invention of Love) was a recent hit on Broadway following a record-breaking run in London's West End.  In August 1968, Russian tanks are rolling into Prague; Jan, the Czech student, lives for rock music; Max, the English professor, lives for Communism; and Esme, the flower child, lives for a high.  By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in, and idealism has hit the wall.  Stoppard's sweeping and passionate play spans two countries, three generations, and 22 turbulent years, at the end of which, love remains — and so does rock 'n' roll.

SCHMUCKS
by Roy Smiles          directed by Jiri Zizka
December 3, 2008 – January 4, 2009
“An evening of total comic virtuosity…another success for the prolific and aptly named Roy Smiles!” -The Evening Standard

Fasten your seatbelts ‘cause all hell’s about to break loose!  It’s 1965, and the great Northeast Blackout covers New York City in a state of panic and disorder.  Isolated in a small diner, a young stand-up comic with an upcoming gig on The Ed Sullivan Show encounters comic icons Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce and implores them for comedic guidance.  What results is an exhilarating and unpredictable debate of the nature and purpose of comedy.  From one of London’s funniest playwrights, Roy Smiles, comes the U.S. Premiere of the play that had audience members laughing hysterically during a reading at the Wilma earlier this season.

SCORCHED
by Wajdi Mouawad          translated by Linda Gaboriau          directed by Blanka Zizka
February 25 – March 29, 2009
“Scorched introduces a playwright with an important voice to the English language theater.”
-Variety

A tour-de-force epic mystery depicting one woman’s moral conviction to interrupt the cycle of war and revenge, Scorched is an intensely dramatic play from an internationally acclaimed Lebanese-born playwright.  After the death of their mother, twins Janine and Simon receive a surprising request in her will to deliver letters to a father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew existed.  These tasks lead them on a journey to the heart of their mother’s war-torn Middle Eastern homeland.  In the course of their search, they learn about their mother's long-concealed history and uncover shocking secrets about their own origins.

HYSTERIA
by Terry Johnson          directed by Jiri Zizka
May 13 – June 14, 2009
“Hysteria is an exuberant surprise…as unexpectedly resonant as a crazy sonnet.”
-The New York Times

Winner of an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and based on an actual meeting between two of the world’s greatest and most eccentric men – Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí – Hysteria is a madcap comedy full of mistaken identities, missing clothing, and dazzling surprises.  Set in London in 1938, this wild comedy showcases Freud as he deals with several unexpected encounters with his physician, a persistent young woman who delves into his past, and his biggest fan, surrealist Salvador Dalí.  Soon Dalí’s surreal imagery begins to take over both Freud’s consciousness and his study in this explosive comedy full of mix-ups, misunderstandings, scantily clad women, and Freudian slips.

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