2001 - 2002 Season
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Joyce Devlin
A poetic drama about the terrifying isolation of loneliness.
Performances: October 25-28, 2001
Hay Fever
by Noel Coward directed by Donald T. Sanders Hay Fever is a classic
comedy of manners. The action of the play takes place over a country
house weekend in June in the 1920s.
Performances: December 6-9, 2001.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Alycia Smith-Howard
"The charms of Hamlet's mind are essentially feminine in
their nature. The Question may be asked, whether Shakespeare had
the thought dawn up on him that this womanly man might be in very
deed a woman. Is not Hamlet's extreme maturity of mind, combined
with his youthfulness of appearance strong proof that here was a
woman masquerading in a manly part?" Edward P. Vining, The
Mystery of Hamlet (1881)
Alycia Smith-Howard's production of Hamlet will take Vining's
theories to their natural conclusion by presenting Shakespeare's
most famous tale as the story of a young Danish princess caught
in a web of corruption, intrigue and sexual politics, and denied
her rightful throne by her uncle. Also, in a reversal of Elizabethan
stage practice, this all-female production will "reclaim"
this "masculine" play for female actors and challenge
concepts of gender, identity and sexual ambivalence; and will allow
us to hear this well-known text anew.
All-Female cast
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Performances dates: April 19-21, 25-28, 2002
Past Productions
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