[Capdist-announce] THEATER VOICES ANNOUNCES IT'S 2013-2014 SEASON

[Theater Voices]

Marking its twenty-sixth season of admission free staged readings to the
public, Theater Voices announces its upcoming 2013-2014 slate of plays. All
shows will be presented at Steamer No. 10 Theater, 500 Western Avenue, in
Albany.



RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire

Directed by John Romeo

October 18-20, 2013



     This lyrical drama tells a story of loss, heartbreak, and
forgiveness—revealed through daily moments and emotional hurdles—as a
family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old son.
Laced with wit, insightfulness and compassion, the play won the 2007
Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In his New York Times review, Ben Brantley wrote,
“This anatomy of grief taps a reservoir of feelings common to anyone who
has experienced the vacuum left by a death in the family.”



ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Eileen Schuyler

February 14-16, 2014



     When an exhausted mercenary soldier from the Serbian army bursts
through the window of an idealistic young woman and demands to hide out in
her bedroom, all her cherished notions about the nobility of love and war
get turned upside down. Set in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, Shaw’s
classic comedy features a dashing military hero, an insolent and ambitious
servant and a host of surprises. The play sparkles with Shaw’s
characteristic wit, as the master takes aim at the folly of war and the
hypocrisies of human nature.



HEROES by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard

Directed by David Bunce

April 11-13, 2014



     Set in 1959 Paris in an old soldiers’ home, three veterans of World
War I spend their days together—fiercely guarding against interlopers as
they must have on the front—bickering, grousing about the staff, dreaming
of comely women, and fantasizing about escape. A perfect combination of dry
humor, Stoppard’s pithy wordplay, heartbreaking dreams and genuine wisdom
lures us into the men’s lives as we re-examine our own. Winner of the
Lawrence Olivier Best New Comedy Award.



A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Romulus Linney

Directed by Margaret Hall

May 16-18, 2014



     Based on Ernest J. Gaines' award-winning novel, this captivating play
is an elegant but harsh illumination of the search for grace and dignity
before an innocent black man is put to death. Set in backwoods Louisiana in
1948, it brings together a discouraged young teacher and a prisoner who has
lost all hope. Together, they find the courage to hold onto their common
humanity in the face of prejudice. “The story's wrenching power lies not in
its outrage but in the almost inexplicable grace the characters must muster
as their only resistance to being treated like lesser beings." —The New
Yorker

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