Amphibian Stage Productions Announces 2011 Season

Amphibian Stage Productions is proud to embark on its twelfth season of plays that challenge the way we see the world around us. The adventure continues as Amphibian Stage Productions brings to Fort Worth six plays - three of them regional premieres - by playwrights both new and seasoned.
Amphibian's mainstage season will include three full productions at the Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater, located in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center: Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph, Wittenberg by David Davalos, and Vigil by Morris Panych.

Amphibian will also continue its renowned reading series, "'Phibs at the Modern," at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with Inventing Van Gogh by Steven Dietz, Eyes Forward by Philip Gerson, and Treats by Christopher Hampton.

Tickets for the mainstage season are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students. Tickets for the reading series are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students. Season subscriptions begin at $110 for adults and $85 for seniors, teachers, and students. Stay connected at www.amphibianproductions.org or call 817-923-3012 for more information.

About the Plays
Inventing Van Gogh by Steven Dietz
February 7, 2011
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
A self-portrait, painted just before the artist's death, has never been seen... until now. Patrick stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with Van Gogh himself. The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth.

Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph
March 11-27, 2011
The Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater
(Regional Premiere) When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his schoolteacher, she finds that life and love can't be neatly arranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold.

Eyes Forward by Philip Gerson
May 2, 2011
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
A valuable painting stolen by the Nazis at the start of WWII is the catalyst for two love stories - seven decades apart - in this touching drama. When Samuel takes his father Otto to Germany to claim a portrait of Otto's mother, the young American finds himself unwillingly drawn to Wilda, the painting's current keeper. Before he can recover the painting, however, he must uncover the mystery of its creation and its fall into enemy hands.

Wittenberg by David Davalos
July 7-24, 2011
The Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater
(Regional Premiere) This smart, sprightly, and audacious battle of wits features university colleagues Dr. Faustus (a man of appetites), Martin Luther (a man of fatih), and their student Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark (a youth struggling not only with his beliefs but also with his tennis game).

Vigil by Morris Panych
September 15-October 2, 2011
The Hardy and BetTy Sanders Theater
(Regional Premiere) In this deliciously dark comedy a self-involved bachelor arrives to care for the dying aunt he hasn't seen since childhood, only to find that she's "not quite dead yet." As her health improves against all odds - and against his hopes - their relationship evolves in unexpected ways.

Treats by Christopher Hampton
December 5, 2011
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
From the Academy Award-winning writer of Dangerous Liaisons comes a witty comedy about the choices we make when we're in love. Dave, Ann, and Patrick struggle with each other and their foolish tendencies as they navigate the murky waters of sex, love, and loyalty.

About Amphibian Stage Productions
Amphibian Stage Productions is a non-profit theatre company founded in 2000 by three alumni of TCU's Department of Theatre who wanted to produce innovative and engaging works of theatre that challenge the way we see the world around us. Now in its twelfth season, Amphibian has produced numerous groundbreaking and challenging plays (some regional premieres, others US or world premieres) that foster a deeper understanding of ourselves as members of the global community. The company is widely recognized for its stylistically and thematically varied scripts.
Committed to nurturing young and diverse audiences, Amphibian has developed a strong internship program, a summer acting workshop for teens, and a dynamic outreach project, Jumbies Fort Worth!, that is steadily increasing the company's visibility and following. The group travels to schools and community centers, performing and spreading a message of multicultural collaboration and tolerance.

In addition, actors visit schools to lead acting workshops and talkback sessions with students. The company actively reaches out to young people and strives to foster a new generation of audience members by offering students very low cost or free tickets to all performances.

Amphibian is generously funded by the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas Commission on the Arts, Ann L. & Carol Greene Rhodes Charitable Trust, Amon G. Carter Foundation, Alcon Foundation, Wells Fargo, Mrs. Lenore Barbata, Mrs. Betty J. Sanders, William E. Scott Foundation, Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, Web Maddox Trust, The Rug Company, Out of Nowhere Website Design, Bates Container, Pier 1 Imports, 2clighting and the Devonian Society, a group of Amphibian's devoted donors who are proud to be the force behind nurturing the next generation of artists and audiences.

 

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