2008-09 Season
MISERY
By
Stephen King, Adapted for the stage by Simon Moore
Directed by Susan Dillard
October
2-25, 2008
Thursday - Saturday nights at 8:00 pm
Asheville Community Theatre 2008-2009 Season
Popular romance novelist Paul Sheldon is traveling to Colorado to work on his latest novel when he crashes his car on a snowy road. He is rescued by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of his fictional heroine, Misery Chastain. Paul’s legs are crushed and Annie insists she will nurse him back to health. They are trapped in her isolated farmhouse by a smothering blizzard - phone lines are down and Paul has no contact with the outside world - he is virtually a prisoner dependant on her for pain relief. Annie discovers that his new book is not about Misery and she forces him to destroy it and write another. Thus begins Paul’s descent into a living hell of pain, humiliation and degradation where he must write a new chapter every day to stay alive. A stunning adaptation of the classic thriller!
“It makes seats optional. The audience spent the evening on the edge of theirs.” - Daily Express
Recommended for mature audiences.
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
by
Douglas Carter Beane
directed
by Francis Cullinan
February
5-28, 2009
Thursday - Saturday nights at 8:00 pm
Asheville
Community Theatre 2008-2009 Season
Yes, we love the cinema for its great auteurs, its glorious faces and its daring images. But in this tabloid age where big stars go on Oprah and jump around like heartsick schoolboys, what we really love is all that dish! The players here include a hard-driving Hollywood agent, her budding screen idol client, a sexy young drifter, and the drifter’s naive, needy girlfriend. Mitchell Green is a movie star who could hit big if it weren’t for one teensy-weensy problem - his agent, Diane, can’t seem to keep him in the closet. Trying to help him navigate Hollywood’s choppy waters, the devilish Diane is doing all she can to keep Mitchell away from the cute rent boy who’s caught his eye and the rent boy’s girlfriend (wait, the rent boy has a girlfriend?). Will there be a happy ending as the final credits roll?
“Audiences no doubt will be tickled by the satire’s risqué humor and hint of topicality…Clever and funny quick-witted dialogue.” —Variety.
Recommended for mature audiences.
EVE-OLUTION
A North Carolina Premiere!
by Hilary Illick & Jennifer Krier
directed by TBA
April
2 - 25, 2009
Thursday - Saturday nights at 8:00 pm
Asheville Community Theatre 2008-2009 Season
Alison and Liza are navigating the channels of motherhood as they take a revealing and sometimes comedic look at the balancing act of promise and compromise. Both women test the vision of who they think they are, who they wish to be, and ultimately who they become as individuals, as mothers, as professionals and as members of their families.
“…the authors are right to insist there is pathos in the plight of women who go to college not for an MRS. but for an M.A. or Ph.D., but discover after a child or two that the first credential cancels the others…many women will be moved by the gumption and humanity of these everyday stories and by the aspirations that a hardboiled achiever like Alison swallows when she quits her faculty job, saying in bewilderment, ‘I love my kids so much more than I planned.’” —NY Times.
“These side-by-side monologues have many vivid and nakedly honest stories to tell; there are certainly two skillful writers at work, and it seems that it is the strength of their collaboration that brought these stories out of each other.” —nytheatre.com.
