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| | Perfect Arrangement (Main Stage #3)
By Topher Payne
directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga
NOVEMBR 2024
Fri & Sat 8pm / November 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23
Sun Matinee 2pm/ November 17
Sat Matinee 2pm/ November 23
It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: both Bob and Norma are gay and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover-up.
Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the gay rights movement, Perfect Arrangement merges madcap sitcom-style laughs with provocative drama as two closeted U.S. State Department employees struggle to maintain their cover – and their sanity – in mid-century America.
A comic tale of closeted lives.
"[A] clever canapé of a comedy... “THE NEW YORK TIMES | Buy tickets |
| | Babel (CP2 Mini-Festival #2)
Written by Jacqueline Goldfinger
Directed by Michael J. Frohnhoefer
December 2024
Evening - Friday, December 6, 8pm
Matinee - Saturday, December 7, 2pm
Set in the near future, two couples are having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raises the specter of eugenics, explores the societal value of a baby, and asks us what we are willing to risk for love.
A funny, and at times terrifying vision of a future
"Quirky characters, quippy dialogue, and the startling collision between the goofy and the deadly serious." —The Philadelphia Inquirer | Buy tickets |
| | Marjorie Prime (CP2 Mini-Festival #2)
Written by Jordan Harrison
Directed by Cynthia Topps
December 2024
Evening - Saturday, December 7 - 8pm
Matinee - Sunday, December 8 - 2pm
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.
Clever in concept, alive with humor, and terribly haunting
"...elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it...At some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts." —The New York Times | Buy tickets |