Four World Premieres by Eric Samuelsen and More Highlight Plan B Theatre's 2013-14 Season

Plan B Theatre has announced its 2013-2014 season, featuring four world premieres by Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen. Full details below!

NOTHING PERSONAL
October 24-November 3, 2013 | Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner
Beginning with the persecution and imprisonment of Susan McDougal, jailed for contempt of court for her principled refusal to lie before Kenneth Starr's grand jury, NOTHING PERSONAL explores the loss of civil liberties and the violations of human rights that have since disfigured our culture and politics. Fanaticism and principle, false ideals and genuine integrity, prison, torture and the tug of freedom ... it's nothing personal.

RADIO HOUR EPISODE 8: FAIRYANA
December 3, 2013 | Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner
Also broadcast live on KUER's RadioWest
A comedy about the writers for the popular children's television program The Magical Land of Fairyana. The writers are seasoned professionals: which is to say alcoholic, misanthropic, hypochondriacial, obsessed with death, and prone to violence. And kept in line by the Mob. A radio show about happy, frolicking bunnies and froggies and the hardened cynics who write them.

CLEARING BOMBS
February 20-March 2, 2014 | Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner
In the summer of 1942, economists Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes spent a night on the roof of King's College Chapel in Cambridge, waiting to clear away and control German incendiary bombs. In CLEARING BOMBS, they're joined by a fire warden, Mr. Bowles. A play about economics amid mortal danger, about defining the future they could only begin to imagine.

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March 27-April 6, 2014 | Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner
Three short plays about Mormon women confronting their own culture, each with a cast of three. In Bar and Kell, two women help a single mother and confront their own motives. In Community Standard, a woman serving on the jury of an indecency trial is forced to confront issues in her own marriage. And in Duets, a woman confronts the choices she has made by marrying a gay man.

ERIC SAMUELSEN, PLAYWRIGHT, was the head of the playwriting program at Brigham Young University from 1999-2011. He has had twenty-three plays professionally produced across the country. His plays MIASMA, AMERIGO and BORDERLANDS received their world premieres at Plan-B Theatre Company.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS:

SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES: REYKJAVIK by Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Rhodes
June 24, 2013 | Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner
(free but tickets required) A dramatization of the iconic two-day summit in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986, during which President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev debated the total abolition of their countries' nuclear weapons. Featuring a post-show discussion with the playwright led by Mary Dickson. Presented in partnership with Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES: GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Eric Samuelsen August 25, 2013 | Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner
(free but tickets required) Mrs. Alving has spent her life meticulously creating the fantasy of a happy home and family and marriage, which explodes in revelations of sexually transmitted diseases, suicide and insanity. Quite possibly the most radical play in history.

NOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: THE SOLDIER'S TALE by Igor Stravinsky
September 29, 2013 | Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah
(add-on) A parable about a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for a book predicting the future of the economy. Conducted by renowned percussionist Steven Schick and narrated by Doug Fabrizio of KUER's RadioWest.

AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON
May 3, 2014 | Jeanne Wagner Theatre, RoseWagner
(part of subscription) BANNED returns after a six-year absence in celebration of the First Amendment. Hosted by Kerry, Bill & Gina from X96's Radio From Hell Show.

All tickets are available at planbtheatre.org, beginning May 6, 2013. 2013/14 Subscriptions - a savings of 15% - are $75 and include the world premieres of Eric Samuelsen's NOTHING PERSONAL, RADIO HOUR EPISODE 8: FAIRYANA, CLEARING BOMBS and 3, as well as the return of AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON. Subscribers receive a 20% discount on tickets to the add-on event NOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: THE SOLDIER'S TALE. And the SCRIPT-IN-HAND SERIES readings of REYKJAVIK and GHOSTS are free but require tickets.

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