Mad Anthony Theatre Company, the resident company at the Fitton Center for the Performing Arts in Hamilton, announce their upcoming season.
October 19-23, 2011
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative comedy about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
“Beguiling new comedy. . .” New York Times
“Satire is her oxygen…In her new oddball comedy Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.” The Washington Post
“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in.” Variety Magazine
December 7-11, 2011
The Last Five Years
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage from meeting to break-up, or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.
“The Last Five Years is an enjoyable, tuneful pastiche.” Curtain Up
“Brimming with persistent melodies, lyrics and a heartfelt, compelling story.” Associated Press
“Unpredictably heartfelt insights, energized by a seductive, rhythmic drive.” Newsday
February 22-26, 2012
Good Boys and True
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
The privileged life of a brilliant, athletic, popular and charming prep-school senior threatens to collapse when a disturbing videotape is found on campus. As the resulting scandal takes unexpected turns, his mother must sort fact from fiction and confront unsettling truths about her son, herself and their life.
“…a suspenseful mystery, compassionate character study and moving love story rolled into one.” The Chicago Reader
“The play goes down easy but its aftertaste is sharp.” The New York Sun
“…a craftily constructed, psychologically astute, absorbing play that harbors claws the fiercest feline could envy.” Bloomberg.com
“Be prepared for an engrossing drama that heightens suspense as it moves along and wherein not everything is what it seems.” SteadystyleChicago.com
May 9-13, 2012
Elephant Sighs
By Ed Simpson
Not long after moving to a small town, an uptight lawyer named Joel is invited to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Joel has been chosen to replace a recently deceased and much beloved member. Joel accepts the invitation without ever asking just what exactly it is the group actually does. As an anxious Joel is swept up in the strange lives of the guys, the more apparent it becomes that each of them is just as lost as Joel. As the evening progresses the regulars finally reveal the mysterious reason for their gathering.
“Ed Simpson’s riotous new male bonding comedy is deceptively unassuming.” Los Angeles Times
“…unexpected, often hilarious…” The New York Times
“…a warm funny and life-affirming tale…” Backstage West
Tickets for the upcoming season will be on sale in August. Also, publicist Jodi Fritsch is excited to announce an online ticketing system coming this season.
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