2012-2013
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
1st Studio
Written by: Helen Jerome from Jane Austen
Directed by: W. Steven Lecky
Performance Dates
September 20-22, 2012
In a town where reputation and marriage can secure – or destroy – a young woman’s happiness, Elizabeth Bennet’s mother is desperate to secure husbands for her daughters at any cost. When Lizzy is introduced to Mr. Darcy, tempers flare as her independent spirit clashes with his ingrained arrogance. Can they overcome their pride and prejudice to find lasting love?
FORTY CARATS
2nd Studio
Written by: Braillet & Gredy – adapted by J. Allen
Directed by: Winston Sutton
Performance Dates
September 27 -29, 2012 8:00 pm
A divorcee has a whirlwind romance with a young man on a Greek island. Back in New York, she returns to problems with her real estate business, her mother, her 17 year-old daughter Trina and ex-husbands while fending off the advances of a middle-aged client. One evening a young man arrives to escort Trina and turns out to be the youth from Greece. The attraction is still strong. And then her amorous client falls for Trina!
JULIUS CAESAR
1st Major Feature
Written by: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Jude Beny
Performance Dates
November 12 – 24, 2012
A classic story of pride and envy, arrogance and honour, opportunity and tragic strategic errors. As conspiracy swirls through ancient Rome, Shakespeare explores the deep repercussions of political murder on the human heart. Julius Caesar blends the historical events of the reign of this iconic roman emperor with tragic elements and compelling language creating one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
2nd Major Feature
Written by: Kaufman and Hart
Directed by: Douglas Buchanan
Meet one of the most irrepressible families – the Sycamores of Manhattan. This completely uninhibited clan manufactures
fireworks in the cellar, distributes left-wing propaganda in home-made candy and turns out play after play on a typewriter that is delivered by mistake. Alice, the one “normal” Sycamore is engaged to Tony Kirby, son of a conservative banker. When the Kirby family arrives for dinner a day early, fireworks explode, plates crash, and laughter fills the theater.
THE MATCHMAKER
3rd Studio
Written by: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Barbara Kelly
Performance Dates
February 28 – March 2
Wealthy merchant Horace Vandergelder is searching for a wife but he really wants a pretty housekeeper who won’t empty his purse. Meanwhile his store clerks are sneaking off to the big city for excitement and his niece is on the verge of eloping. When his old friend Dolly Levi worms her way into his affairs, the day turns into a delicious farcical romp in New-York city where the tables are literally turned on him!
THE CLONE PEOPLE
4th Studio
Written by: Mike Johnson
Directed by: Winston Sutton
Performance Dates
February 7 – February 9
Jay and Nessa are two of Hollywood’s most successful stars and a happily married couple. While filming on location, Nessa sustains an accidental blow on the head and flees to her home in Beverly Hills before anxious studio staff members can stop her. She bursts in on Jay and insists she is Polly Ackerman, a girl who vanished just before their marriage. Strange
events make him suspect she might be telling the truth and that something incredibly evil is going on at the studio.
A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL
3rd Major FeatureWritten by: Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by: W. Steven Lecky
Previews
Monday, April 15 – 16
Performance Dates
April 17-20 and April 25-27
The Pendon Amateur Light Operatic Society’s production of The Beggar’s Opera is going off the rails, that is until a handsome but shy young widower Guy joins the group. An instant hit with the company’s ferociously zealous director Dafydd and the show’s leading ladies, including Dafydd’s wife, Guy soon gets more than he bargained for as he discovers that all the best action happens off-stage.
