[Capdist-announce] BEST DEAL IN TOWN!! CIVIC PLAYERS' 90th SEASON!!

Tue Aug 22 17:59:39 EDT 2017

* SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS  *
*   UPCOMING 90TH SEASON!  SAVE 40%!*

*   ALL 5 SHOWS ONLY $60! -- SUBSCRIBE NOW *         *Just print out
attached coupon, fill in, mail with check. Or call 518-382-2081
<(518)%20382-2081> (press Option 2)*

*REMINDER TO PAST SUBSCRIBERS**:  **Return NOW the renewal form you’ve
already received to hold – or change – last season’s seats.  If you’ve
misplaced it just call **518-382-2081 <(518)%20382-2081> **(**Option 2**),
or return attached form *

*Schenectady Civic Players*, *in continuous operation since 1928, for its
upcoming 90th season announces five plays for 2017-2018 main stage
production at its 12 South Church Street playhouse in Schenectady’s
historic Stockade district.*

*Fifth of July* by Lanford Wilson. Directed by Joseph Fava.  *(Show Dates:
October 12 – 14 and 18 – 22, 2017.)*  The scene is a sprawling farmhouse in
rural Missouri, which is home to Ken, a legless Vietnam veteran, and his
lover, Jed, a horticulturist. They are visited by old friends from college
days, and former activists who agitated for what they hoped would be a
better world.. Their talk, as the play progresses, is sharp and funny and,
in the final essence, deeply revealing of lost hopes and dreams and of the
bitterness that must be fought back if one is to perceive the good that
life can offer.

*As Bees in Honey Drown* by Douglas Carter Beane.  Directed by Mark
Stephens. *(Show Dates: December 1 – 3 and 6 – 10. 2017.)*  Evan Wyler has
just finished a photo shoot. No, he’s not a super model, just a
twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel.
Evan captures the attention of Alexa Vere de Vere, a black-clad woman of
mystery who’s made the world of celebrity her home. In fact, it’s her
religion. But, Alexa vanishes, leaving him to foot the bill for all the
dinners and Armani suits they’ve gone through. Trying to find Alexa, Evan
discovers a chain of people who have fallen under her spell and acted as
her meal ticket. Alexa puts it:

*An Inspector Calls* by J.B. Priestley.  Directed by Patrick White. *(Show
Dates: January 26 – 28 and 31 -- February 4, 2018.)*  The action of the
play takes place in an English industrial city, where a young woman commits
suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine
inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the
family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group
are implicated in some way in the girl’s undoing. All of them knew her in
one capacity or another. The family, closely knit and friendly at the
beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or
cowardly, it’s good humor turning to acid, before the evening is over.

*Other Desert Cities* by Jon Robin Baitz.  Directed by Jennifer Van
Iderstyne.  *(Show Dates: March 16 – 18 and March 21 – 25, 2018*.)          A
beautiful backyard on a home in Arizona. Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm
Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents,
her brother, and her aunt. She announces that she is about to publish a
memoir, dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history- a
wound that they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the
sand and dares them all to cross it. They are forced to reveal a painful
secret to her, in order to prevent the public from finding the truth.

*The School for Lies* *(adapted from The Misanthrope by Molière)* by David
Ives.  Directed by Chris Foster. *( Show Dates: May 4 – 6 and May 9 – 13,
2018.)  *It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of
Celimene, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue she been
sued for it. Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without
surrendering to, Celimene has managed to evade love since her beloved
husband died- until today, when Frank appears. A traveler from England
known for his own coruscating wit and acidic misanthropy, he turns her
world upside-down, taking on her suitors, matching her barb for barb, and
teaching her how to live again. A wild farce of furious tempo and stunning
verbal display.

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             *More details at -- **www.civicplayers.org
<http://www.civicplayers.org>*
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