PURCHASE REPERTORY THEATRE 2006-2007

October 6th -14th
Suddenly the Sky Turned Blood Red
Directed by David Bassuk
A work of new theatre inspired by the art of the expressionist painter Edvard Munch, with writing drawn from letters, journals, poetry and plays of August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Schnitzler and Stephen Mallarme.

Dance Theatre Lab, Dance Building
Friday Oct. 6 at 8pm, Saturday Oct. 7 at 8pm and Sunday Oct. 8 at 2pm, Thursday Oct. 12 at 8pm, Friday Oct. 13 at 8pm and Saturday Oct. 14 at 2 & 8pm

October 27th-November 4th
James Joyce's The Dead
book by Richard Nelson and music by Shaun Davey
Directed by TBA
One of the most lauded new musicals of the last decade. Friends and family gather to eat and drink on the Feast of the Epiphany in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. With a Tony Award-winning book and melodies inspired by the folk music of Ireland, this is a haunting glimpse into the souls of two people who learn first-hand how hard it is to truly know one another.

Repertory Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Friday Oct. 27, Saturday Oct. 28 at 8pm and Sunday Oct. 29 at 2pm
Thursday Nov. 2 at 8pm, Friday Nov. 3 at 8pm and Saturday Nov. 4 at 2 & 8pm

December 1st-9^th: Two plays performed in Repertory
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by TBA
American soldiers, a translator, ghosts and a tiger wander the doomed streets of Baghdad trying to find what's been lost in the ruins, A meditation on the spoils of war in the 21st century. Produced in collaboration with the Lark Theatre Company

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By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
Directed by Craig Bacon
Set on the bleak, ghostly Irish landscape of “the Bog of Cats”, this provocative drama is based on the classical Greek tragedy of Medea. The play discloses one woman's courageous attempts to lay claim to that which is hers, as her world is torn in two.

Repertory Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Friday Dec. 1 at 8pm, Saturday Dec 2 8pm, Sunday Dec. 3 at 2pm
Thursday Dec. 7 at 8pm, Friday Dec. 8 at 8pm, Saturday Dec 9 at 2pm & 8pm

February 9th-17^th
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Directed by Tracy Bersley
Wickedly comic, unbearably raw and strangely tender, Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare’s most unpredictable and least classifiable dramas. What happens when a Duke hands over his power to his second-in-command and wanders the streets in disguise to watch as events unfold? What if that second-in-command pursues his obsession to purify society of sexual corruption?

PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Friday Feb. 9 & Saturday Feb. 10 at 8pm and Sunday Feb. 11 at 2pm
Thursday Feb. 15 & Friday Feb. 16 at 8pm and Saturday Feb. 17 at 2 & 8pm

March 2nd -10th
The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Dean Irby
In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's green grocery trade. This prize-winning translation by Ralph Manheim skillfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.

Repertory Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Friday Mar. 2 & Saturday Mar. 3 at 8pm and Sunday Mar. 4 at 2pm
Thursday Mar. 8 at 8pm, Friday Mar. 9 at 8pm and Saturday Mar. 10 at 2 & 8pm

April 27th to May 5th
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Directed by TBA
First produced in 1938, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Our Town has become an American stage treasure and is Wilder's most renowned and frequently performed play. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the play reveals the ordinary lives of the people in the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Repertory Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Friday Apr. 27 at 8pm and Saturday Apr. 28 at 8pm and Sunday April 29 at 2pm Thursday May 3 at 8pm, Friday May 4 at 8pm and Saturday May 5 at 2 & 8pm