Boise Little Theatre Presents TWELVE ANGRY MEN, FOOL, and More this Season

The Boise Little Theater's 2009-2010 season continues this January with 4 new productions- FOOLS, ALMOST, MAINE, TWELVE ANGRY MEN, and CHAPTER TWO.

First, a family friendly show by Neil Simon, FOOLS will be directed by Kevin Kimsey.

The show follows Leon Tolchinsky who has landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years and Leon's job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But, he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid that she has only recently learned how to sit down.

FOOLS will run January 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, & 30, 2010 at 8 PM, January 21 & 28 at 7:30 PM and January 24 & 30 at 2:00 PM.

In February, The Boise Little Theatre will present ALMOST, MAINE by John Cariani and directed by Larry Dennis.

On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But The Bruises heal, and the hearts mend-almost-in this midwinter night's dream.

ALMOST, MAINE will run February 26, 27, March 5, 6, 12, & 13, 2010 at 8 PM, March 4 & 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM and March 7 & 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM.

TWELVE ANGRY MEN, adapted by Sherman Sergel and based on the Emmy award-winning television movie by Reginald Rose, will be directed by David Mendes Priest.

The show follows a 19-year-old man who 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 upon 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 own character as the various testimonies are re-examined and the murder is re-enacted. Tempers get short, arguments grow heated , and the jurors become 12 angry men.

TWELVE ANGRY MEN will run April 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, & 24, 2010 at 8:00 PM, April 15 & 22, 2010 at 7:30 PM and April 18 & 24, 2010 at 2:00 PM

Last is CHAPTER TWO, another Neil Simon play, this time directed by Patrick Ryan.

In CHAPTER TWO, Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again which sends George into even more depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone and she's a keeper. Still, it is a bumpy trip on the road to Dreamland for these not-so-young lovers. George and Jennie stumble on, overcoming both their hesitation on the rebound and emotional neediness.

CHAPTER TWO will run May 21, 22, 28, 29, June 4, & 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM, May 27 & June 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM and May 30 & June 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM.

To order tickets, click here, visit the box office located at 100 East Fort St. Boise, ID 83712, or call (208) 342-5104. For more information and ticket prices, visit The Boise Little Theater online at boiselittletheater.org.

 

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