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Our 2010 Season
Our first season brings you a sex farce, a touching comedy, a summer musical, a tense drama, and a heartwarming holiday play.
We hope that you will see all of our shows and find out that this is Not Another Season from Not Another Theater Company!
We hope that you will see all of our shows and find out that this is Not Another Season from Not Another Theater Company!
| January 29 - February 6, 2010 |
| One London cabbie, two wives, two neighbors, two police detectives and too much to handle!! |
| A Comedy by Ray Cooney Directed by Dustin M. Czarny |
John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working,
punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night
John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at
the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However,
that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John
tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding
out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John
heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be
well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating
the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different
addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for
Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues,
Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into
each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty
Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute
romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.
punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night
John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at
the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However,
that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John
tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding
out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John
heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be
well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating
the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different
addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for
Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues,
Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into
each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty
Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute
romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.
| April 24 - May 1, 2010 |
| When Man's best friend crosses Man's better half, life can go to the dogs. A story for dog lovers everywhere. |
| A Play by AR Gurney Directed by Dustin M. Czarny |
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's
career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is
beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found
him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia
becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the
frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And
Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in
serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to
compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives.
career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is
beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found
him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia
becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the
frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And
Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in
serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to
compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives.
| July 30-August 7, 2010 |
| Shakespeare, Inheritance Plots, and Cross Dressing. Just another day in Amish country! |
From the writer of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo comes a sidesplitting comedy of mistaken
identity and harebrained schemes. Leo and Jack are two Shakespearean actors who are so down on their
luck that they're playing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge Circuit in Pennsylvania's Amish
country. When they read about a rich old woman in York, PA, who is about to die and leave her fortune to
her two, long-lost nephews, whom no one has seen since birth, they decide to high-tail it to York to
impersonate the two men. It's only when they're a few minutes out of town that they realize that the
nephews are in fact nieces, and that they must appear in York as Maxine and Stephanie if they're to
collect the loot.
identity and harebrained schemes. Leo and Jack are two Shakespearean actors who are so down on their
luck that they're playing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge Circuit in Pennsylvania's Amish
country. When they read about a rich old woman in York, PA, who is about to die and leave her fortune to
her two, long-lost nephews, whom no one has seen since birth, they decide to high-tail it to York to
impersonate the two men. It's only when they're a few minutes out of town that they realize that the
nephews are in fact nieces, and that they must appear in York as Maxine and Stephanie if they're to
collect the loot.
| September 24 - October 2, 2010 |
| Life is in their hands... Death is on their minds!!! |
| A Play by Reginald Rose Directed by Dustin M. Czarny |
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance,"
mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut
case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing
about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—
and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain
or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each
juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-
enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated,
and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that
will electrify you and keep you on the edge of their seats—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic
literature, an experience you'll never forget.
mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut
case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing
about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—
and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain
or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each
juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-
enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated,
and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it—in tense scenes that
will electrify you and keep you on the edge of their seats—add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic
literature, an experience you'll never forget.
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| A Play by Ken Ludwig Directed by Deborah Pearson |
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