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"Our American Table"
In our third season marked a great step forward in the growth of OAT Co. We took two of our readings , The Dining Room and Curse fo the Starving Class, to second venues The New Space and Seattle Public Theater, respectivly . It also marked our first full prodcution.
The Readings
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The Dining Room
by A.R. Gurney, Monday, December 3 at Theatre Off Jackson and December 4 at The New Space
A.R. Gurney, the chronicler of all things New England WASP, has created a magic cabinet of a play to talk about the transformation of the dining room throughout the 20th Century. Originally produced off Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1982 (with a young William H. Macy).
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Curse of the Starving Class
Monday, February 18th Theatre Off Jackson -Tuesday February 19th The Bathhouse Theatre
Some say Sam Shepard got a Pulitzer Prize for BURIED CHILD, because he didn’t get one for CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS. In any event, add this to the canon of great American plays: A family comes apart at the seams as Father, Mother, Son and Daughter each fight tooth and nail for the survival of the family farm.
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PICNIC
by William Inge
Monday May 5 Theater Off Jackson
It's Labor Day, and Madge, the town beauty, is weighing her options. She's lusted after by every fella around, but Alan, scion of a local industrialist, is serious about making her his own. Her widowed mother's dream of a picture perfect wedding is threatened when Hal, a handsome but troubled drifter comes unexpectedly into the picture. Explosive and graphic for its time--Inge's skills are at their best as he pulls into sharp focus the desires and motivations of these very human, small town American characters.
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The Production
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THREE HOTELS
BY JON ROBIN BAITZ
June 12-28 at Theatre Off Jackson.
THREE HOTELS by Jon Robin Baitz takes us into the private thoughts and Faustian struggle of an American couple collapsing under the weight of their participation in the multinational corporate world. Ken Hoyle is a hatchet man for a company that sells baby formula (often with disastrous results) to third world countries. It's been a long time since he and his wife Barbara were idealistic Peace Corps volunteers. But the progression of moral compromises has taken its toll--in the worst way imaginable. In this three monologue journey, we sit in three hotel rooms in three different parts of the world and watch a man and a woman face down the dark truth of their lives and their allegiances--searching for answers and aching for redemption.
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