QuickLinks: The Front Page - Opens March 12th - Tickets & Directions - Audition for Abandonment 3/15 & 3/16 - PCP Announces Its 33rd Season - Volunteer Today
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QuickLinks: The Front Page - Opens March 12th - Tickets & Directions - Audition for Abandonment 3/15 & 3/16 - PCP Announces Its 33rd Season - Volunteer Today
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Alexandria’s Port City Playhouse is proud to present our 33rd season of plays featuring: Farragut North by Beau Willimon (Fall – Sept/Oct 2010) Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. Farragut North is a timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it. Farragut North is an “enjoyable play about spinmeisters on the campaign trail — a fast-paced couple of hours.” - N.Y. Times “Farragut, a fresh take on old political tricks - riffs authoritatively on the pressures and fissures of the big time. It reminds you of the timeless appeal of stories about the process.” - Washington Post Rashomon by Faye & Michael Kanin (Winter – Dec 2010/Jan 2011) In medieval Japan, three men take shelter at the ruins of the Rashomon gate and begin to recount the multiple sworn statements of those who confess to a murder. What is truth? That is the central question posed. The difficulty of obtaining truth, the subjectivity of memory and the conflicts of sworn statements is this play's message. "Delicate and dynamic, sensitive and savage, packed with color, suspense and seamy wit. A triumph of stagecraft." - N.Y. Mirror. "Rashomon is pure art of the theatre. Out of a legend, it conjures a mood." - N.Y. Times. No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs by John Redwood (Early Spring – Mar/Apr 2011) Called a “provocative title for a heartwarming play.” The year is 1949, the place is North Carolina and the title refers to signs commonly posted in that era. The Cheek family is visited by Yaveni, a Jewish scholar, who is researching the effects of prejudice on both blacks and Jews, and by Aunt Cora, a mysterious local African American with a dark secret. "You will not often find a stage family where both the individual relationships and the overall dynamic are as vibrant and well defined as they are in this one." - N.Y. Times "Redwood is at his best when creating those strong, emotional currents that never surface but run deep around the peripheries of his characters' life experiences." - Variety Mindgame by Anthony Horowitz (Late Spring – May/Jun 2011) Mark Styler is a writer of glossy “true crime” paperbacks who tries to get an interview with a notorious serial killer. He has no idea what he's walking into but soon he discovers that very little is quite what it seems. Mindgame is a puzzle-box thriller that actually manages to thrill, and a very dark comedy that twists and spirals towards a completely unexpected ending. "A truly gripping thriller [that] keeps you guessing and marveling from its deceptively normal opening to its fearful climax." - The Stage "Probes the terror of madness ... while exhibiting roguish love of the macabre." - Evening Standard |
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