WILDER SINS
Directed by Bill Largess
November 3 through November 27, 2011
Thursday – 7:30 P.M.
Friday & Saturday Evenings – 8 P.M.
Saturday & Sunday Matinees – 2:30 P.M.
{Note: no performance Saturday Matinee, 11/5/2011 and 11/24/2011}
The Washington premiere of Wilder’s “Seven Deadly Sins” plays.
Thornton Wilder, whose insight and compassion in Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth made him one of America’s most beloved playwrights, turned late in life to a series of works that are as extraordinary as his large-scale masterpieces. In portraits of ordinary people whose failings affect themselves and those around them, Wilder, by turns comic and serious, never fails to surprise his audience with the cosmic implications of the commonplace. Pride, Sloth, Wrath, and Avarice will take the stage, and their cousins will be offered during the run as a reading.
Directed by Bill Largess
January 5 through January 29, 2012
Thursday – 7:30 P.M.
Friday & Saturday Evenings – 8 P.M.
Saturday & Sunday Matinees – 2:30 P.M.
The world premiere of an epic Civil War romance.
The Stage Guild’s 25th anniversary is also the 150th of the Civil War, and this world premiere celebrates the one while acknowledging the latter. Playwright Webb was inspired by the true story of a woman whose determination to find her wounded husband led her to the horror of the Andersonville prison camp, and has created a vividly theatrical epic as Amelia’s quest spans a country in turmoil.
February 23 through March 18, 2012
Thursday – 7:30 P.M.
Friday & Saturday Evenings – 8 P.M.
Saturday & Sunday Matinees – 2:30 P.M.
The American premiere of Molnár’s kaleidoscopic look at sex, the immovable object.
Hungarian playwright and bon vivant Molnár, author of such Stage Guild hits as The Guardsman, The Play’s The Thing, and A Tale of The Wolf, offers a wry and wise look at the many ways women and men in love can drive each other crazy. Lies may deceive and the truth may hurt, but in this roundelay of comic miniatures, it’s not always clear which is which, or even whether one is better than the other! Husbands and Lovers is a tasting menu of playlets bitter and sweet, salty and sour.
Directed by Alan Wade & Laura Giannarelli
April 26 through May 20, 2012
Thursday – 7:30 P.M.
Friday & Saturday Evenings – 8 P.M.
Saturday & Sunday Matinees – 2:30 P.M.
The Washington professional premiere of GBS’s stereoscopic look at sex, the irresistible force.
Since 1986, The Washington Stage Guild has built an international reputation for its productions of the brilliant and inimitable works of George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize laureate, Oscar winner, and one of talk radio’s “most evil men of the 20th century.” Having ended last season with one of his thorniest, most political plays (The Apple Cart), the Stage Guild turns to Shaw at his most puckish and least polemical. Overruled & Village Wooing, plays from either end of his long career, offer GBS the chance to laugh at love, lovers, and life itself. |
