NORTHANGER ABBEY
by ZOE COOPER
October 8 - 25
Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real-life experience when you have novels to guide you? Seizing her chance to escape her claustrophobic family and join the smart set in Bath, she meets worldly, sophisticated Isabella Thorpe – Iz, to her friends – and so Cath's very own adventure begins. This playful and surprising reimagining of Northanger Abbey is infused with the spirit of Jane Austen's original novel and fizzes with imagination and humour.
RETURN TO SEYMOUR STREET
by TOM DUDZICK
December 3 - 20
Peter Witkowski, an author, now divorced, visits his empty, run-down boyhood house on Seymour Street in Buffalo’s Polish East Side and, within that nostalgic atmosphere, attempts to rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart, the girl next door, Irene. She’s now a West Coast TV producer and the show-runner for a “Fixer Upper” pilot episode that wants to rehab Peter’s old house. But Irene’s also a widow with a 14-year-old son, Gary, a telekinetic psychic who can communicate with the beyond. Just as things are looking up for Peter and Irene, Gary starts saying things like, “We’re not alone here.” The grownups’ first instinct is to get out of that house fast until they are trapped by a Buffalo snowstorm.
MARJORIE PRIME
by JORDAN HARRISON
January 21 - February 7
It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie – a jumble of disparate, fading memories – has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits – if any – of what technology can replace.
THE SOUND INSIDE
by ADAM RAPP
March 18 - April 4
When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes a surprising request of Christopher that neither knows if they can fulfill. Brimming with suspense, Rapp’s riveting play explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.
SANCTUARY CITY
by MARTYNA MAJOK
May 13 - 30
In post-9/11 Newark, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry to that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines for his life. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.
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