Apollinaire Theatre Company Announces 2014-15 Season
By: Anna Bencivengo Oct. 22, 2014
Apollinaire Theatre Company's 2014/2015 Season:
Midsummer [a play with songs] by David Greig & Gordon MacIntyre
Press Night: Saturday December 27, 8:00
Greenland by Nicolas Billon
Press Night: Saturday February 21, 8:00
Detroit by Lisa D'Amour
Press Night: Saturday April 11, 8:00
Midsummer [A play with songs] by David Greig & Gordon MacIntyre will begin our season on Dec. 26th. Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend in Edinburgh- "of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers."
We are thrilled to announce that director Meg Taintor, former Artistic Director of Whistler in the Dark will join us in February to direct Greenland (Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama and NYC Fringe Overall Excellence for Playwriting) by Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon.
Detroit by Lisa D'Amour (Obie Award for Best New American Play in 2013 and Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) will open April 10. "The quintessential American backyard party quickly turns into something more dangerous - and filled with potential."
Performance Dates:
Midsummer: December 26-January 11
Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. at 3:00
Mon. 12/29, Tues. 12/30, Wed. 12/31 at 7:30
Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. March 8 & 15 at 3:00 Detroit: April 10-May 9
Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. April 26 & May 3 at 3:00
Tickets:
$25, $20 advance purchase, $15 students
Season Pass: $38, Pre-Season Sale Tix $15
www.apollinairetheatre.com
617-887-2336
Chelsea Theatre Works,
189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, MA 02150
Midsummer ?[a play with songs]
"A warm-hearted, beautifully sculpted musical romantic comedy." -The Scotsman
"Sad, funny and instantly recogn'sable ... irresistible and unmissable." -Herald
Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do. Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers. Midsummer premiered at the Traverse Theatre and was revived for an international tour in 2009.
Featuring: Brooks Reeves (From White Plains, Stupid F**king Bird) & Courtland Jones (Caucasian Chalk Circle)
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Running Time: 90 minutes
Guest Director: Meg Taintor (Whistler in the Dark)
Governor General's Award for Drama
NYC Fringe Overall Excellence for Playwriting
"a beautifully wrought, thoughtful script"?-CurtainUp
"Ice figures prominently in Greenland, Nicolas Billon's quietly disarming drama from Canada about a family cracked apart by a fatal accident...The story unfolds as three subtly connected monologues, each detailed and conversational." -NY Daily News
Receding ice levels off the coast of Greenland have revealed that an area thought to be part of the mainland is actually a separate island. This discovery mirrors a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his increasingly distant family, set adrift after a catastrophic loss.
Featuring: Charlotte Kinder, Dale J. Young (Invasion), Danielle Fauteux Jacques (Artistic Director/Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God)
Running Time: 55 minutes
Obie Award for Best New American Play in 2013? - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
"a powerful, funny play about the fraying of American culture under the stress of economic uncertainty" -NY Times
"a fine and spectacularly timely new play"?-Chicago Tribune
In a "first ring" suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control, shattering the fragile hold that newly unemployed Ben and burgeoning alcoholic Mary have on their way of life. The quintessential American backyard party quickly turns into something more dangerous - and filled with potential.
Featuring: John Dylan Green, Courtland Jones (The Caucasian Chalk Circle), Becca A. Lewis (Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God, Memory House, Proof, Anger Box), Stephen Libby (Rhinoceros, The Firebugs, Cooking with Elvis, Anger Box), Rick Winterson (Men of Tortuga, The Visit)
Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques
Running Time: 100 minutes
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