This Season
The 2009/10 Season
Welcome to the 2008/09 season of live theatre at the Linkville Playhouse, where you may enjoy your choice of dates and seats for five new productions through the purchase of season tickets.
Your season ticket choices range from the advantages of a “seat sponsorship” to the unusual value of a “family season ticket” with additional benefits for other family members. We also offer a special “dis-counted” season ticket for students and seniors.
Season tickets to our productions are the best theatre value in town. Please join us for our 2009/10 season.
Curtain Time
Curtain time is 8:00 p.m. for all even-ing performances, unless otherwise noted, and 2:00 p.m. for matinees.
Ticket Agent
Shaw Stationery Co., at 729 Main Street, serves as ticket agent (including season tickets) for the Linkville Players. Payment may be made with cash, check or credit card (Visa or Mastercard). Telephone 882-2586 for ticket information and reservations.
Questions
If you have questions pertaining to a seat sponsorship or season tickets for the Linkville’s 2009/10 season, or if you wish to make a contribution to the Linkville’s new endowment fund, please contact Dick Marlatt, Business Manager, at 882-9907.
By David Hirson
Directed by Barbara DiIaconi
September 11 - October 3, 2009
NOTE: Special Curtain Time: 7:30 p.m.
Described as “a modern comedy of classical insanity,” La Bête is an instantly engaging celebration of the classic, acidic social comedies of Moliere. Author David Hirson has borrowed extensively from Tartuffe and The Misanthrope in crafting this delightful account of the conflict between the idealists who strive to present thought-provoking entertainment and the pragmatists who go for the lowest common denominator in creating escapist fare. However, no prior exposure to Moliere is necessary to enjoy the battle of “high art versus low” when Elomire, the idealist who heads a theatre troupe, is informed by the troupe’s patron that the company will be reinforced by the addition of Valere, the pragmatist who is a common troubadour and street performer. And, if that’s not enough, Valere turns out to be a self-absorbed egotist who is never-theless delighted to talk at length about how insufferable he finds those people who talk on and on about themselves. Set in 17th century France, La Bête is an innovative and absorbing play that received the 1991 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for “Best New Playwright” and Great Britain’s 1992 Olivier Award for “Best Comedy Of The Year.”
A Linkville World Premiere!
By Cricket Daniel
Directed by Van Abercrombie
November 6 - November 28, 2009
What happens when your wife wishes to expand your circle of friends? She arranges to do some “couple dating,” of course, and invites each of three separate and decidedly different couples, to spend an evening in your home. The result is a boisterously entertaining comedy about love, marriage, friends and contemporary relationships. First time playwright, Cricket Daniel, lives in Bend and has an extensive background in stand-up comedy. She tells the engaging story of Tess and Bobby Moretti, a young couple living in Brooklyn, who have been married for five years, have a three year old daughter and who decide that they need to explore new friendships after watching a segment about “couple dating” on the Today Show. As each new couple spends an evening in the Moretti home, the audience will learn whether or not Bobby and Tess will find what they are searching for among their new friends or whether they will decide that their old friends are not so bad after all. Couple Dating is a slightly edgy contemporary comedy in which you will recognize yourself as well as your friends.
By Stuart Ross
Directed by Barbara DiIaconi & Slippery Bill Eaton
January 8 - February 6, 2010
NOTE: Special Curtain Time: 7:30 p.m.
Forever Plaid pays loving tribute to those classic, clean cut, close harmony, “guy groups” of the 1950s in this critically acclaimed and affecttionate revue that will bring back musical memories of a more innocent time. The Plaids are a quartet of high school chums who have earnest dreams of recording their own album when their cherry red 1954 Mercury is broadsided by a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles’ American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Forever Plaid begins with the Plaids being given the opportunity to return from the afterlife to per-form one final concert. Sparky, Jinx, Smudge and Frankie will take you down memory lane with their songs and choreography, including “Three Coins In The Fountain”, “Heart And Soul”, “Moments To Remember”, “Rags To Riches” and “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,” among many others. Forever Plaid is “a musical miracle that has been made in heaven.” Don’t miss it!
By Neil Simon
Directed by Dick Marlatt
March 12 - April 3, 2010
Plaza Suite is one in a series of Neil Simon’s legendary hit comedies. Set in Suite 719 of New York’s famous Plaza Hotel, the comedy’s three acts are entitled Visitor From Mamaroneck, Visitor From Hollywood and Visitor From Forest Hills. Act I introduces the audience to a not-so-blissfully wedded couple, Sam and Karen Nash, who are revisiting their honeymoon suite in an attempt to bring love back into their marriage. A heated argument takes place and Karen’s honey-moon hopes are dashed. Act II involves a meeting between a well-known Hollywood movie producer and his old flame, who is now a suburban housewife. Each has a different idea about what to expect when they meet and what ensues surprises them both. In Act III, we meet Roy and Norma Hubley, another married couple, who are trying to deal with their daughter Mimsey’s rush of nervousness on her wedding day. Check into Suite 719 for an evening of fun and frolic, compliments of Neil Simon and a bevy of talented actors.
By Mark Medoff
Directed by Jason Icenbice
May 14 - June 5, 2010
Mark Medoff is an award-winning American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor and professor whose first play to be staged in New York City was When Ya Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?, whjch won the 1974 New York Drama Desk and Obie Awards for “Outstanding New Playwright.” The play is a dis-turbing and somewhat violent modern drama of heroic American ideals biting the dust in the “horse opera” tradition of its namesake, Red Ryder, a 1940s western action comic strip which became, among other media icons, a serialized movie series. The play slanders such heroic deeds of the famed gentle cowboy by lassoing the corny righteous themes of the old western serials and by comparing a violent incident in a new Mexico diner with America’s rather small-statured exit from the Vietnam War. When Ya Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? is not an historical drama but an examination of a changing America at the end of a decade…and it could be any decade, even the current one. “…Red Ryder is an important as well as provocative drama that must be seen.”
Directed by Larry Arthur
April 16 - May 1, 2010
Back again for a second outing, The Linkville Live Radio Show…Again! returns to those good old days of live radio shows, when audiences thrilled to the drama of such weekly programs as Dragnet, The Shadow, Dimension X and Flash Gordon and the comedy of Burns And Allen, Jack Benny and Fibber McGee And Molly. Hark back to yesteryear and the time when families sat around the old Philco and thrilled to the sounds of live radio. Now, see live radio pro-grams reenacted on the stage of the Linkville Playhouse for your listening and viewing pleasure, with music and sound effects to complete the picture!