2009-10 Season
Tell Me You Love Me
The collision of love and language, the shifting of perspectives, the erosion of intimacy and the temptation of self-deception: these are the themes that propel Alley Repertory Theater’s second season. In 2009, we take a provocative look at how connection and estrangement hinge on the ways in which people communicate. Three very different real-world landscapes present relationships that are at the mercy of the subjectivity of truth.
Love Person
By Aditi Brennan Kapil, Directed by Buffie Main
Love Person brings two couples and three cultures together to explore how language is both a portal and barrier to human connection. Through English, Sanskrit, American Sign Language (ASL) and projected e-mail, we witness how love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction and social structure, and rests instead on the ways in which people communicate. Written by Aditi Brennan Kapil, Love Person has been nominated for the Blackburn Prize, the Steinberg Award and the Pulitzer Prize. This production is accessible to Deaf and Hearing audiences alike.
This play was part of a co-production with East Indian Follies Theater Company
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Three Tall Women
By Edward Albee, Directed by Tim Saunders
In November 2009, Alley Rep will run a production of Three Tall Women, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical Edward Albee play.
In the play, we meet three tall women navigating through the elusiveness of personality and its self-deceptions. Through a stingingly funny and often haunting, unsettling conversation in act one, we witness the collision of a young lawyer, a middle-aged caregiver and a rich, bitter older matron who have little patience for one another, and who talk in circles to make—or avoid—any kind of connection. In act two, their true identities are revealed, and the illusion of separateness takes a surprising, and illuminating, turn.
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Sex a.k.a. Wieners & Boobs
By Joe Lo Truglio, By Michael Showalter, By David Wain, Directed by Nick Garcia
In December, Alley Repertory Theater (through our Alley Underground arm) will stage SEX a.k.a. Wieners and Boobs, a silly, irreverent play co-written by writers/directors/performers Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, whose collective experience includes creating and/or working on the films Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models and The Ten; Comedy Central’s Stella and Michael and Michael Have Issues; and MTV’s The State.
SEX follows the pitfalls of Jack Greenberg, the new sheriff of Teaneck, New Jersey. The corrupt town is run by Tad Theaterman, a crime boss armed with henchmen and a legion of hookers and gigolos. The Mayor and townsfolk fear Tad, but love the money the sinful brothels bring in! When Jack meets Hillary, a recent divorcee, it’s love at first sight, but there’s a showdown that’s closin’ in on our hero! Will Jack save Teaneck, get the girl, and defeat Tad? Or will the wieners and boobs prevail?!
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