OR, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors' prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott—who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can Aphra resist Nell's charms, save Charles' life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy from the playwright The San Francisco Bay Guardian called "an artist of playful and highly literate imagination, radical instincts, and sardonic but generous humor."
Ages: Adult Subject Matter
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Jane Lynch’s A Swingin’ Little Christmas featuring Kate Flannery, Tim Davis, and the Tony Guerrero Quintet
Keswick Theatre (12/2 - 1/2) | |
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Alcoléa & cie: Right in the Eye
Zellerbach Theatre (1/23 - 1/23) | |
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Compagnie Virginie Brunelle: Fables
Zellerbach Theatre (2/20 - 2/21) | |
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Live It All Again: The RUSH Experience
The Lamp Theatre (1/30 - 1/30) | |
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HHenok ♦ Magician, Mentalist and Humorist
Smoke & Mirrors Theater in House of Magic (2/13 - 2/14) | |
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Dear Evan Hansen
Pittsburgh Musical Theater (4/30 - 5/24) | |
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Little Women
Hedgerow Theatre Company (11/26 - 12/28) | |
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Draw the Circle
Hedgerow Theatre Company (1/21 - 2/1) | |
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