THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

2007-2008 Productions  **

Remaining Shows

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Text by John Cameron Mitchell, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask

Second Place Winner in REP's Anniversary Season Audience Poll

Plato's Symposium inspires this groundbreaking rock and roll tale of Hedwig Schmidt's search for love and acceptance. Featuring Deb Royals-Mizerk and C. Glen Matthews. Get tickets by clicking on the Box Office Tab above.

February 16, 17, 21, 22, & 23, 2008   Legends

BENT

by Martin Sherman

First Place Winner in REP's Anniversary Season Audience Poll

As Hitler's grip tightens on Berlin, Max and Rudy find themselves being shipped to Dachau, beginning a nightmare journey through Nazi Germany.

April 17 - May 3, 2008    Artspace

Previous Shows this Season

Columbinus

by the United States Theatre Project, Written by Stephen Karam & P.J. Paparelli

Southeastern United States Premiere

A jock. A prep. A brain. A rebel. A believer. A loner. A freak. When you were in high school, which one were you? This riveting docu-drama "weaves together excerpts from discussions with parents, survivors, and community leaders in Littleton (Colorado) as well as diaries and home video footage to bring to light the dark recesses of American adolescence, " while exploring "the psychological warfare of alienation, hostility, and social pressure that goes on in high schools across America."  www.nytw.org

October 11-27, 2007   Artspace

Defying Gravity

by Jane Anderson 

A Staged Reading directed by Carnessa Ottelin

From the Emmy Award-winning creator of The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom! As a teacher prepares for the journey of a lifetime, her daughter, a retired couple traveling the country in a RV, and French artist Claude Monet collide in this impressionistic and beautifully "theatrical look at mankind's heroic attempt to transcend all earthly bounds." www.michigandaily.com  "A lovely piece...It floats gracefully in the big blue yonder of the imagination...letting Anderson's delicate, tender and human attitude toward her characters come through..."  NY Daily News

October 23-24, 2007  Artspace

2006-2007 Productions

Bury the Dead

by Irwin Shaw

Somewhere on a torn-over battlefield, during the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night, a burial detail witnesses the unbelievable: bodies standing in the grave, refusing to be buried.  Written in 1935 and labeled leftist, antiwar propaganda, Shaw's epic and beautiful piece enjoyed a successful Broadway run, prompting critic Brooks Atkinson to proclaim the play an event that "burrows under the skin of argument into the raw flesh of sensation."

September 7 - 23, 2006   Artspace

Blowfish

by Vern Thiessen

Produced in collaboration with The Town of Cary

Southeastern United States Premiere

Lumiere and his assistants stir up a delicious, unique experience for an intimate gathering of guests.  In return, the caterer extraordinaire simply asks the revelers do three things: eat, listen, and witness.  “The dramatic fabric Thiessen has woven is a tight and careful accumulation of emotional and narrative threads…a life picture that entertains…that frequently moves, that engages, that disturbs. “ The Ottawa Citizen  November 15-19, 2006  Page Walker Arts & History Center, Cary

A Number

by Caryl Churchill

North Carolina Premiere

A son visits his father in search of answers to a chilling question in what the Evening Standard dubbed “…the first true play of the 21st century. It's an hour-long experiment in prediction, a meditation upon identity, a sort of nightmare imagining of what the magic of science, in relation to cloning, may one day require of our hearts and minds.”   February 15-24, 2007   Artspace

Poona the Fuckdog and Other Plays for Children

by Jeff Goode

North Carolina Premiere

Join Poona, her Fairy God Phallus, Suzy Suzy Cyberassassin, and the rest of this wacky gang as they battle dragons, consumerism, politics and Tequila!  As you might guess, nothing is sacred in this raucous assault on the power of language, made possible by the creator of THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES.  No one under 17 admitted without parent or guardian.

April 19 - May 5, 2007   Artspace

**  All shows and performance dates are subject to change.