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2011-2012 Season

The Board of Directors has chosen the below plays for our 2011-2012 season.

As usual, they are unusual, as is Port City’s way of presenting a broader selection of theatre literature than most other groups. But they promise to entertain while presenting something interesting.

The Dixie Swim Club - by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten

Directed by Eddie Page

Performance Dates: Fri/Sat Feb 24/25, Mar 2/3 & 9/10 at 8 pm; Tue Mar 6 at 8 pm plus Sat Matinees Mar 3 & 10 at 2 pm

Performance Location: The Lab at Convergence, located at 1819 N. Quaker Lane in Alexandria, VA 22302

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Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years.

Someone Who'll Watch over Me - by Frank McGuinness

Directed by Rosemary Hartman

Performance Dates: Apr 20th thru May 6th, 2012 *

Performance Location: The Lab at Convergence, located at 1819 N. Quaker Lane in Alexandria, VA 22302

The play focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who are kidnapped and held hostage by unseen Arabs in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to overcome their personal and nationalistic differences. Related to this is each individual's own attempt to maintain sanity under the watchful eye of both captors and supposed comrades. At times the dramatic dialogue reaches a level of Beckettinian absurdity, as even the audience is unable to draw a distinction between the characters' insanity and humor. We are made witness and accomplice to a humor based on something apparently ghastly, the loss of rationality.

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Actor's Nightmare - by Christopher Durang

Directed by Shawn G. Byers

"A flat out 5 stars for six rousing performances and non-stop chuckles and guffaws" - MD Theatre Guide

"Had audience members busting at the sides from a show filled with slapstick, physical comedy" - ShowBizRadio

Closed: Sun Oct 2, 2011

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Featured: Ric Andersen, Remy Brettell, Aimee Meher-Homji, Larissa Norris, Amy Solo & Jason Wonacott

Angel: A Nightmare in Two Acts - by Jo Davidsmeyer

Directed by Bruce Follmer

Angel is a "gripping drama - spot on" - Alexandria Times

"Little theater group; big play" - Washington Jewish Week

"The performances of the talented cast are powerful – and at times frightening" - MD Theatre Guide

Closed: Sat Nov 19th, 2011

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Featuring: David Adler, Deanna Gowland, Luba Hansen, Casey Jones, Doug Sanford & Robin Zerbe

Robin Zerbe & Luba Hansen Casey Jones, Doug Sanford & Robin Zerbee

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