Recommended by Claudia Haas

  • SONS & LOVERS
    23 Jul. 2015
    This is an engaging comedy that plays with love, sex and commitment at all stages of life. It's refreshing to see a role for a woman on the cusp of fifty exploring her sexuality and coming into her own. It's a twist on the coming-of-age story only the protagonist is a middle-aged woman! Even when dealing with secrets and betrayals, the play retains it lightness of being.
  • Long Joan Silver
    16 Jul. 2015
    Adventure on the high seas: mutiny, buried treasure - it's all here in this female-centric Treasure Island. Yes, the pirates are women and as dangerous as the original pirates in Stevenson's tale. With the welcome addition of humor (it's a comedy - a murderous one), Jolly seamlessly weaves feminism, politics and 21st century pop culture references into the script without taking you out of the story. An ideal show if you have a pool of swashbuckling, strong actresses longing to play something other than "Juliet" (and the male roles are meaty, also). Bonus points if you do the chicken suit.
  • The Seventh Son
    14 Jul. 2015
    This is a delightfully wild and wooly, fast-paced romp of a play. Curses! Intrigue! Murder! Brigadoon! What's not to like? The kingdom is in danger and in a few hours - "something" will befall it. Earthquakes? Floods? A sledding accident? Nobody knows. As the characters try to stop the curse and save their kingdom, the plot thickens. This plays well for family audiences by adults or teens. The actors will really be able to sink their teeth into the witty asides that keep coming. The kingdom cannot laugh under their curse but the audience can. And will. A lot!
  • Flight
    9 Jul. 2015
    The play has characters in flight both from themselves and from their past. While a sense of loss haunts the characters, their methods of finding their way back are highly imaginative and poignant. The stakes are high for each character which makes for a fast-moving play that thoroughly engages you.
  • Ten Mile Lake
    9 Jul. 2015
    The themes of the play touched a lot of my nerve endings. I was drawn into the father-daughter relationship, the combination of "wanting to stay away from home" and "needing to return home" and ultimately - the need for reconciliation at some point in our lives. The characters are very human - flawed but striving to do better. Audiences members will find much to relate to and much to think about when they leave the theatre.

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