SPARROW, HEDDATRON, et al. Set for Stray Cat Theatre's10th Anniversary Season

All performances will be presented at the original Tempe Performing Arts Center at 132 E. 6th Street in Tempe's Mill Avenue District, near Arizona State University.

Curtain is 8PM Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; 2PM Sundays.

The Stray Cat Theatre's 10th Anniversary Season is as follows:

September 23 - October 8, 2011
THE SPARROW
Conceived by Nathan Allen
Co-Written with Chris Mathews and Jake Minton
Directed by Ron May

Originating at The House Theatre of Chicago, Stray Cat proudly brings the Southwest Premiere of this wildly adventurous and blazingly theatrical new work. Think a hybrid of The Sweet Hereafter, Heroes and Carrie...and you're part way there. The Sparrow is the dark tale of Emily Book, the only survivor of an accident that killed her entire elementary school class. The story begins with orphaned Emily's return home to a town that has yet to recover from the tragedy. As the town struggles to accept the strange girl who reminds them of what they lost, Emily attempts to hide the special powers that make her different while navigating the treacherous territory of being a high school senior.

"The Sparrow is exciting, original and emotional. If you're lucky, you'll find a ticket." - CurtainUp

December 2 - 17, 2011
MILK MILK LEMONADE
by Joshua Conkel
Directed by John J. Caswell, Jr.

Emory is an effeminate 11-year-old boy who lives on a farm with his chain smoking Nanna and his only friend, a depressed chicken about to be processed. Nanna wishes Emory would get his head out of the clouds, stop choreographing ribbon stick dance numbers, and be more like Elliot, the boy down the road with a penchant for burning things. But Emory and Elliot have a relationship -- just not one Nanna would expect or approve of. With absurd, poignant dialogue and brutal characterizations, Milk, Milk Lemonade is a twisted, funny exploration of gender, sexuality, life, death, and being gay in America today.

"In the end theater isn't much more than this, and it shouldn't be any less." - NY Post

February 17 - March 3, 2012
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Ron May

Stray Cat is thrilled to announce that we will be teaming up with the new incoming class of MFA Actors at ASU for a kinetic and visceral production of this wicked expressionistic fantasy. Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot uses flashbacks to an imagined childhood, and a courtroom in Purgatory with lawyers who call for the testimonies of such witnesses as Mother Teresa, Caiaphas, Saint Monica, Sigmund Freud and...wait for it...Artistic Director of Nearly Naked Theatre, Damon Dering will be down our alley to play - who else - Satan...to reexamine the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.

"An extraordinary play...not since Angels in America have I seen a play so unafraid to acknowledge the power of the spirit..." - The Guardian

May 18 - June 9, 2012
HEDDATRON
by Elizabeth Meriwether
Directed by Ron May

In celebration of our 10th Anniversary, we wracked our brains to try and think of something we HAVEN'T brought you yet. And then it came to us: ROBOTS! Yup. Real ones. Five of 'em. In the go-for-broke insane and outrageously imaginative Heddatron, a pregnant housewife is abducted by robots, taken to the rainforest and forced to perform Hedda Gabler by her robot captors. Meanwhile, her family is back home in Michigan trying to find her, and Henrik Ibsen is in Norway attempting to write Hedda Gabler, as Strindberg taunts him. A hilarious and savage journey we promise will be unlike anything you've ever seen...pretty much ever.

"Strangely moving...Achieves true, and truly original, theatrical transcendence...Magical...Brings to mind the heady fall down the rabbit hole that begins Alice's Adventures in Wonderland..." - New York Times

 

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