Overview over our past Seasons
Enron by Lucy Prebble September 24 thru October 16, 2010 In Enron, one of the most infamous scandals in financial history is transformed into a theatrical epic. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, the play follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2010. Inspired by real-life events, and using music, movement, projections, and pure theatricality, Enron is a financial vaudeville that captures the circus feeling that precipitated the collapse of the energy giant. |
My Wonderful Day by Alan Ayckbourn March 4 thru March 26, 2011 Following the sold-out success of Private Fears in Public Places last season, Zeitgeist presents another recent play by Alan Ayckbourn - My Wonderful Day - an off-Broadway success from 2009. My Wonderful Day is the title of an essay which Winnie has to write while home sick from school. She accompanies her single, pregnant Mother to her job cleaning the home of a minor TV celebrity. When her Mother gets labor pains, Winnie is left at the house to witness the shenanigans of the TV celebrity, his wife, his mistress, and others. After her day in the house, her resulting essay of My Wonderful Day, shocks even her own Mother. |
Edward Albee's At Home At The Zoo May 6 thru May 28, 2011 America's greatest living playwright, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Seascape), creates a new classic by revisiting an old masterpiece. Using his breakthrough 1958 one-act play The Zoo Story as Act Two in this full length work, Albee has written a prequel which shows Peter from The Zoo Story at home. Peter, a tweedy book editor, and his wife, Ann, are having an everyday conversation which takes an unexpected turn into dangerously personal territory. It's the kind of talk that can drive a husband out for a walk—to Central Park, where Jerry, a desperate outcast, awaits. An unforgettable pairing of Albee's original The Zoo Story with a freshly penned prequel, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo bares its teeth to threaten the delicately balanced world its characters inhabit.
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