Mad Cow Theatre Season 23

SeaSon 23

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2019-2020

Three Sisters: Rachel Comeau, Adam Reilly

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History, legacy, connection, community – while we were planning Season 23 at Mad Cow Theatre, all were on my mind. This season explores how we tell stories of the past to understand the present and imagine new stories for the future. These plays span centuries, break boundaries, and are not predictable. Thank you, Pasture, for continuing to celebrate the human condition through art with us. As the tradition continues, I cannot wait to share with you the joy, sorrow, challenge, questions, laughter, and hope that these plays inspire in me Mitzi Maxwell, Executive Director our artists.

SEPT 18 – OCT 13

by Kate Hamill Based on the novel by Jane Austen Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this P&P for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined never to marry. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome,mildly amusing, and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn? Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical or so full of life as it does in this effervescent adaptation. Because what turns us into greater fools more than the game of love?

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by Athol Fugard In Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena, the human need for kindness, hope, and compassion is on display during a particularly violent era of governmental racism and suppression. This tale of the struggle of two refugees who encounter a stranger while wandering the South African wastelands depicts a tale of strength over injustice and triumph over tribulation.

DEC 4 – 29

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Music and book by James Valcq Lyrics and book by Fred Alley Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff. The Spitfire Grill is for sale. But with no interested buyers, Hannah decides to raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the best essay on why you want the Grill wins. Percy, a feisty parolee, winds up in Wisconsin and lands a job at the Grill. Soon, things start heating up as mail arrives by the wheelbarrow-full. A musical triumph, The Spitfire Grill is an inspiring celebration of fresh starts and the power of what one person can do.

JAN 15 – FEB 9

by Jaclyn Backhaus Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is a true-ish retelling of the 1869 Powell expedition, when one-armed Captain John Wesley Powell and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.

Jaclyn Backhaus’s celebrated play questions the myth of manifest destiny through gender-swapped colonial adventuring.

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FEB 12 – MAR 8

by Arlene Hutton Last Train to Nibroc is the first in a trilogy of plays

by Florida native Arlene Hutton. In December 1940, an east-bound cross-country train carries the bodies of the great American writers Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also on board is May, who shares her seat with charming, young Raleigh.

Raleigh wants to be a writer, May a missionary, and they discover they are from neighboring Kentucky towns. In this boy-meets-girl romance, two young people navigate through the tough times of a country at war, and they discover what they have to give up to get what they really want

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MAR 25– APR 19

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by Arthur Miller All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a self-made middle-aged man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: He framed his business partner for a crime and engineered his ownexoneration.

Now his son is about to marry the partner’s daughter, and Joe’s lie of a life is unraveled.

In All My Sons, Arthur Miller creates a postwar American family in a tragedy ofgreed, love and loss, and he demands that its audience examine its own social responsibilitiesto all the sons of American wars.

JUN 3–28

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Book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro Music and lyrics by David Bryan From the underground dance clubs of 1950’s Memphis, Tennessee, comes the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love. Memphis will take you back to the birthplace of rock‘n’roll!

JUN 24 – JUL 19

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By Lucy Kirkwood In this British post-apocalyptic drama, Lucy Kirkwood paints a world that is in utter chaos after adevastating series of events. A couple of retired nuclear engineers are living a quiet life on the coast until an old friend shows up at their door with a shocking story.

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INTIMATE APPAREL

AUG 5– 30

By Lynn Nottage Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage explores the strength of the human spirit through the story of Esther, an African-American seamstress in early 1900s Manhattan. When a letter arrives for Esther, romance is sparked, betrayal is born, and six lives are changed forever.

Intimate Apparel is a winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.

AUG 19– SEP 13

By Jen Silverman Betty wants to talk about love, needs to hit something and keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined.

In Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, five different women collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “Thea-Tah.” Award-winning playwright Jen Silverman’s absurdist romantic comedy is at once hilarious, inspired, and boldly uncompromising.

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• Pride and Prejudice • Boesman and Lena • The Spitfire Grill • Men on Boats

• Last Train to Nibroc • All My Sons • Memphis • The Children

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