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Port City Playhouse

2009-2010 Season

Port City is proud to present its 32nd "Director's Choice" Season of Plays for 2009-2010:

Our Town – by Thornton Wilder - Directed by Rosemary Hartman

Performance dates (subject to change, please see note below): Fri and Sat at 8 pm 09/25 & 09/26, 10/02 & 10/03, 10/09 & 10/10; Tue at 8 pm 10/06; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 10/11/2009 ***

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Our Town is an American Classic that depicts the interactions between citizens of Grover's Corners, NH in the early 20th century. Wilder’s passionate plea in the play is to appreciate every moment of every day, for life is a fleeting thing. With troubles rapidly expanding in Europe and war becoming a looming reality, people were inundated with the negative aspects of life. To see Our Town was and is to escape from the negative and rejoice in the ordinary; reaffirming faith in the unchanging moral values of small town living. From birth, to life to death, Our Town is “Riveting, Relevant & Enduring" - NY Daily News.

Nuts – by Tom Topor – Directed By Donald Neal

Performance dates (subject to change): Fri and Sat at 8 pm 12/04 & 12/05, 12/11 & 12/12, 12/18 & 12/19; Tue at 8 pm 12/14; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 12/20/2009 ***

Nuts has been called one of the best "courtroom style" dramas. Set in a hearing room in New York's Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a free-spirited independent prostitute incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent "john". The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is mentally unfit to stand trial and want her committed. As testimony from experts, physicians and her parents unfolds, with her psyche and childhood dissected, she tries to demonstrate to the Judge that she is mentally competent to plead self- defense in a trial." Nuts "has the audience rooting for the good guys… Nuts is a play that moves you." - NY Post

Front Page – by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur – Directed by Roland Branford Gomez

Performance dates (subject to change): Fri and Sat at 8 pm 03/12 & 03/13, 03/19 & 03/20, 03/26 & 03/27; Tue at 8 pm 03/23; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 03/28/2010 ***

Front Page is considered responsible for defining the modern stereotype of a reporter as a hard-drinking journalist intent on uncovering truth even in the face of danger. Hildy is that reporter and wants to take a break to go on a belated honeymoon. When a convict escapes from a jail cell and ends up as Hildy's captive, the reporter conceals his prize in a roll-top desk and phones his managing editor with the scoop. Their job is to prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the desk and finding their story. Front Page is “one of the funniest and most exciting of American plays." - NY Times

Abandonment – by Kate Atkinson – Directed by Mary Suib

Performance dates (subject to change): Fri and Sat at 8 pm 05/14 & 05/15, 05/21 & 05/22, 05/27 & 05/28; Tue at 8 pm 05/25; plus Sun Matinee at 2 pm 05/30/2010 ***

Abandonment (Late Spring 2010) is a mixture of social comedy, family drama and mystery. The play takes place in a drawing room today and in 1885. It involves two sets of characters occupying the same space and two love stories which end unhappily. Elizabeth is a recently separated woman who wants to be alone and start afresh. She moves into a converted mansion, alive with history, character and dry rot. But worse, she is besieged by invaders of the human kind, from friends and family to former inhabitants disturbed from their resting place. It is a play of love, death, identity and evolution that proves that the past is never far away. Abandonment is “sophisticated entertainment” a “passionate, vibrant play.” – ChicagoCritic.com

*** NOTE CONCERNING PERFORMANCE DATES ***

Note from the President of Port City Playhouse: Friends, as many of you are aware on Saturday the 30th of May, 2009, the City of Alexandria closed the Lee Center due to flooding, ceiling collapse, and other damage resulting from a break in a water line located in the mechanical room on the Center’s roof. We had just opened The Curious Savage and had to cancel several performances and move our production mid show to Aldersgate Church. Repairs are still being made to the auditorium, and thus we regret that the above show dates may be subject to change. Please check this website often for updated performance information. Thank you for your understanding. -- Ron Field, President

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