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2008 Season
June 5 - June 22
Billy Bishop
Goes To War
A Play with Music
By John Gray and Eric Peterson
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Musical Direction by Will McGarrahan
Set to
music, this journey follows a heroic World War I fighter pilot down in the
trenches, up to the skies, through the halls of Buckingham Palace, and inside
the human spirit as he attempts to reconcile his love of flying with the horrors
of war.
“A HIGH-FLYING ACE OF A SHOW, CAPTURING THE HUMOR, THE HELLFIRE, AND THE
DERRING-DO OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER!” - The New York Times
Read The Boston Globe review here.
Read The Boston Phoenix review here.
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| Shelley Bolman |
Will McGarrahan |
June 26 - July 13
Enigma
Variations
By
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Translated by Jeremy Sams
Directed by GSC Artistic Associate David Zoffoli
Journalist Erik Larsen is offered an unprecedented interview with Abel Znorko,
the lager than life author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This
beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a duel and sometimes a
duet, but never what it appears to be.
“...QUIRKY AND DELIGHTFUL...[KEEPS] US RIVETED THROUGHOUT WITH REVELATIONS AND
REVERSALS..." - LA Weekly
Presented
with sponsorship from Paula Mae & Steve Schwartz.
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| Tom Markus |
David Volin |
July 17 - August 3
Going to St.
Ives
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Featuring
Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse
and
Elliot Norton Award winner Jacqui Parker
The lives of
two powerful women, an affluent English doctor and the mother of an African
dictator, become irrevocably intertwined in this captivating juxtaposition of
black and white, order and chaos, heroism and hell.
“SPECTACULAR...EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY ENGROSSING...DAZZLING..."
- Philadelphia City Paper
Read
about and view the relationship between Staged: The Work of Kathleen Volp
and Going to St. Ives here
Read The Boston Globe review here.
Read The
Boston Phoenix review here.
Presented with sponsorship from
Cape Ann Savings
Bank and Thomas Janis & Joseph Weglarz.
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| Lindsay Crouse |
Jacqui Parker |
August 7 - August 24
Doubt,
A Parable
By Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Eric C. Engel
Featuring
Nancy E. Carroll and Lewis D. Wheeler
Winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Play.
This
riveting morality play about events that may or may not have taken place in a
1964 Bronx convent and refectory comes to Gloucester in a production starring
Elliot Norton Award winner Nancy E. Carroll of GSC’s Collected Stories and
My Old Lady and Lewis D. Wheeler from A.R.T.'s No Man's Land.
Read The Boston Globe review here.
Read The
Boston Phoenix review here.
Presented with sponsorship from The Goldhirsh Foundation.
August 28 - September 14
The Woman in
Black
A ghost play
By Stephen Mallatratt based on the novel by Susan Hill
Directed by Karen MacDonald of the American Repertory Theatre
Featuring
Steven Barkhimer and Shelley Bolman
A lawyer
harboring a wrenching fear and an actor hired to help him exorcise his tale take
you on a journey to the secret-filled marshes of Nine Lives Causeway.
"Provides a
pleasurable ripple of fear down one's spine and an uncomfortable lurch in the
pit of one's stomach." -
Time Out
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