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August 31, 2006

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A Message from the Tennessee Repertory Theatre 2006-2007 Season

3 Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
Oct. 19 - Nov. 4, 2006, Johnson Theater, TPAC

Have you ever wished you might have known your parents before they were your parents? Imagine you could become them at a critical moment in their lives. Would you understand them and yourself better? Greenberg’s Pulitzer Prize finalist play – now on Broadway with Julia Roberts -- centers on a brother, his sister, and their childhood friend who meet in 1995 to divide the legacy of their late fathers, partners in a renowned architecture firm. In an effort to bring some peace to their own lives, the three search for clues that might explain what had gone on between their fathers, and the women in their lives, decades before. The story then shifts to the mid-60s, with the same three actors portraying the previous generation. Both a family drama and a mystery, Three Days of Rain is a bittersweet elegy about beautiful buildings, unspeakable secrets, and family fault lines. Adult entertainment in content and language.

Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol by Tom Mula
Nov. 30 - Dec. 16, 2006, Johnson Theater, TPAC

Marley was dead, to begin with...dead as a door-nail. Thus begins Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, the source of countless adaptations and productions for stage and screen. But, suppose Marley is stuck between Heaven and Hell with one last chance for redemption. Actor/Playwright Tom Mula puts a different spin on the familiar tale that we see almost every Christmas. This time, Scrooge’s partner Jacob Marley tells the story of that fateful 24th of December night. According to Mula, Jacob got a raw deal in the classic tale since Scrooge is redeemed while poor Marley stays in chains. The playwright thought this was very unfair so he wrote his version of the story as told from Marley’s point of view. Words and luminous dialogue, both dramatic and comic, are at the center of this invigorating production. Family entertainment (teen-agers and older).

SPEED-THE-PLOW by David Mamet
Feb. 1-17, 2007, Johnson Theater, TPAC

Really annoyed, even angered, by this season’s production of Mamet’s ode to sexual harassment and political correctness, Oleanna? What if Mamet went to Hollywood with his luggage full of cynicism and his trademark style of fingernail-on-the-blackboard discomfort punctuated by verbal cleverness and humor? Movie producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until he’s forced to choose between his friend’s sure hit and a beautiful girl’s art house project. During an evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems. Pulitzer Prize Winner Mamet pulls the tinsel off La-La Land. "A dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity...by our foremost master of the language." Newsweek Adult entertainment in content and language.

Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
March 22-April 7, 2007, Johnson Theater, TPAC

Nashville Premiere of the Winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Imagine yourself an African-American woman in 1905 when the cut and color of one’s dress – and, of course, skin – determined whom one could and could not marry, sleep with, even talk to in public. Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she’s saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for. The Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth holds her heart and she his, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both. The other man is George, a lonesome Caribbean man with whom she corresponds. Will her dreams come true? Or must she refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life’s experiences? An engaging and moving work, Intimate Apparel is the most produced play in American regional theatre during the last two years. Why? Nottage's play is filled with sharp dialogue, an attractive historic setting, keen insights into class and race relations, and a strong, sympathetic heroine. Adult entertainment (high school and above).

I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick
May 3-19, 2007 (No public performance May 5), Polk Theater, TPAC

Suppose you are a television series star with a rich, beautiful girlfriend; a glamorous, devoted agent; the perfect New York apartment, and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. But also suppose your series has been canceled; your girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction, and you have no desire to play Hamlet. You decide you would rather go back to Los Angeles, where you can be famous -- even if perpetually mediocre -- for the rest of your professional life. But now suppose a séance summons the ghost of that renowned Hamlet, John (The Great Profile) Barrymore, dressed in high Shakespearean garb, determined to coach you, both in acting and in the ways of love, culminating with a swashbuckling, sword fight in the apartment. Sound funny? Definitely The Big Laugh of 2007! "... fast-mouthed and funny...It has the old-fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretensions and sentimentality without morals." The Village Voice You may hate Hamlet, but you will love I Hate Hamlet! Adult entertainment (high school and above).

Season Subscriber Specials:

Buddy and Miss Sook’s Seasonal Celebration

with Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

6 PM and 8:30 PM, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006

Studio A, NPT, 161 Rains Ave.

“Imagine a morning in late November...." Tennessee Rep’s executive artistic director, David Alford, will again tell Capote's memoir about a young boy and his elderly aunt in Depression-era Alabama, but only for season subscribers as part of a festive, musical holiday event. No public performances of Capote’s work will be offered this season. Season subscribers will be the only invited guests. This private edition at which subscribers bring their own picnic suppers is a special thanks to the people who invest in Tennessee Rep’s artistic mission by buying tickets for the entire season. Details and invitations will be sent in November. Family entertainment (middle school and above)

Reading of a New Play

7:30 PM, Saturday, March 3, 2007

Studio A, NPT, 161 Rains Ave.

Season subscribers will be the first to experience Clara's Hands by David Alford, a new play about the composer Robert Schumann, his famous pianist wife Clara, and their good friend Johannes Brahms or another new work yet to be selected.


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