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2011 - 2012 Season
BILOXI BLUES by Neil Simon
Performances were November 4, 5, 11, 12 at 8 pm and Nov. 6, 13 at 2pm at PSCC's Clayton Performing Arts Center.
Tony Award - Best Play, 1985
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.
"Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding." - The New York Times
"A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth." - New York magazine
THE SANTALAND DIARIES by David Sedaris
(a co-production with Enright Productions)
Performances were December 15, 16, 17 at 8pm and December 18 at 2pm at PSCC's Clayton Performing Arts Center.
Special Holiday Prices - $10/$5
The Santaland Diaries is a brilliant evocation of what a slacker's Christmas must feel like. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy's elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa's workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter. Taking consolation in the fact that some of the other elves were television extras on One Life to Live, he grins and bears it, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike. The piece ends with yet another Santa being ushered into the workshop, but this one is different from the lecherous or drunken ones with whom he has had to work. This Santa actually seems to care about and love the children who come to see him, startling our hero into an uncharacteristic moment of goodwill just before his employment runs out.
"A delightfully thorny account of working as a Yuletide elf at Macy's. Priceless observations, both outrageous and subtle. Destined to hold a place in the annals of American humor writing." - New York Times
"A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathanael West." - The New Yorker
THE SANTALAND DIARIES is quite possibly the thirty-one funniest pages of text published in the past quarter century ... David Sedaris slays me." - Seattle Weekly
THE LADDER PLAYS (the ups and downs of being human) by Lisa Soland
- World Premiere
March 23, 24, 30, 31 at 8pm and April 1 at 2 pm at PSCC's Clayton Performing Arts Center
The Ladder Plays is a collection of new shorts by playwright Lisa Soland. Lisa was recently chosen as a playwright-in-residence at the Tennessee Repertory Theatre in Nashville, where she had the opportunity to work with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. This new collection of plays explores the rising and falling brought about by the conditions in which we humans must live. Some with hilarity, others profound, but all deliver the punch of self-examination that keeps us returning to the theatre.
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