All Season Images (except for Mike Daisey) have been created and rendered by Colorado Springs artist Alan Flinn. THEATREWORKS is extremely grateful for his contribution and support over the years.
AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare August 14- September 7
Teachers take note: As You Like It student matinees on August 21, 26 28, and September 2 and 4 at 10:30 a.m.
A group of desperate refugees fly from an oppressive court, and in the great outdoors they find all the world’s a stage. Freedom ripples through every brook; love blooms on every branch. It’s Shakespeare’s richest comedy, featuring his greatest heroine, Rosalind, the girl who dresses like a boy to teach the boy how to get the girl. No one does it better.
VENUS AND ADONIS
by William Shakespeare
In Rep with As You Like It August 20-31
The sexiest of goddesses loves the handsomest of young men. A match made in heaven? Not exactly. She badly needs a cuddle; he just has to hunt. Off he goes, and meets a tragic fate. We adapt this wonderful narrative poem for the stage, and the result is a brand new play by William Shakespeare. It stars Venus, Adonis, a lusty stallion, a terrified bunny, and a savage boar – the perfect enchantment for a summer’s night. Nine performances only!
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by John Steinbeck
adapted by Frank Galati September 25 - October 19
Teachers take note: Student Matinees
September 30, October 2, 7, 9, 14, and 16 at 10:30 a.m.
Headed west to the promised land of California, the Joad family finds greed, lust, fire, rain, and murderous rage. Yet, on they go. This is the classic story of ordinary people struggling to keep their humanity in the face of massive economic desperation. It’s an essential American epic, a collective life memory, even more moving in the theater than on the page. Grapes of Wrath is produced in collaboration with the library’s All Pikes Peak Reads project.
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I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright October 30-November 9
A playwright is fascinated with a real life German transvestite who somehow has survived both the Nazi and the Communist regimes. Improbable and true. His investigation is a thrilling revelation of a complex character, a modern detective story, and a virtuoso turn by Erik
Sandvold
who reprises his critically acclaimed performance just for us. Winner of the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
THE LYING KIND by
Anthony Neilson December 4 - 21
On Christmas Eve, two English constables have the unpleasant task of telling an elderly couple their daughter has been killed in a motor accident. While they dither and delay, the stage fills with complications and eccentric characters, including a very aggressive huntress of pedophiles and a vicar who wears fishnets. The Rocky Mountain premiere of the play that had us rolling with laughter in London – a diabolical comedy full of very bad news and holiday cheer
WIT by Margaret Edson
January 29-February 15, 2009
How are you feeling today? Not so well. Vivian Bearing, a distinguished and formidable professor of literature, explains she’s been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and told she has two hours to live--onstage. So begins her extraordinary encounter with death, a losing battle played with passion, poetry, humor, and metaphysical wit. Wit won the Pulitzer Prize a decade ago, and it’s already a modern classic, featuring one of the greatest woman’s roles written for the contemporary stage.
URINETOWN by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis March 12-21, 2009
UCCS STUDENT PRODUCTION
A drastic water shortage in a major metropolis has rendered private toilets inoperable, so people must now rely on “public amenities.” But the facilities are controlled by an evil corporation which keeps raising its prices for use, creating a revolting condition in the poorer classes. It’s easily the best bathroom joke in theatre history—and also the most original musical in recent memory. Urinetown is a collaborative production by students and faculty in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
MONOPOLY by and starring Mike Daisey
March 25-29, 2009
A free wheeling monologue from the man the New York Times calls a “master story teller,” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation.” It begins with the eccentric genius of our home town inventor Nikola Tesla and his war with Thomas Edison over electricity, then ranges farther afield to consider the classic board game and the retail giant, Wal-Mart. Both subversive and hilarious, Monopoly! takes a hard, funny and very personal look at living in a system that recognizes only profit and loss. Limited engagement – six performances only!
CYRANO DE BERGERAC by
Edmond Rostand April
23 - May 17. 2009
Teachers take note: Student Matinees
May 5, 7, 12, and 14 at 10:30 a.m.
The play with everything: swordfights, poetry, romance, French pastries, candlelight, and true panache. You’ll soar with love’s wings up to Roxanne’s balcony, pass through the fierce and smoky battlefield, then fall into ravishing heartbreak at the close. The brilliant Cyrano has a fiery wit, a quick sword, an enormous heart, and another prominent feature you must never ever let him hear you mention.
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