Love Dreams!
Welcome to the 2012-2013 season of TheatreWorks! Coming off our highly successful 2011-2012 season featuring the poignant Snapshot and vibrant Hairspray, we are very excited to present our audiences with three shows exploring the dreams we all have of love. In the often-produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream, members of a hypothetical future world fight to restore humanity and love to a fast-paced society overrun with greed for information technology, power, and efficiency. Almost, Maine showcases the quirky relationships of normal people like you and I, in all their bitter and sweet realities. Finally, Children of a Lesser God will take you into the silent world of those who cannot hear or sometimes even speak, traversing the journey of love through seemingly irreconcilable differences. Please join us this season as we celebrate love, dreams, and the thrills and agonies of human hearts searching for their homes.
-Kate Muchmore, TheatreWorks Program Director
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kate Muchmore
Athens: The future. Automation and technology have taken over society. Cyber-warrior Theseus struggles to conquer the heart of the woman he is to marry. The teenagers Lysander and Hermia have fallen in love through the virtual reality of cyberspace, but her father insists she marry someone better connected to the network of the city. Demetrius, once committed to Helena, has left her to pursue a marriage better suited to his career objectives. True love has become only a dream for the people of Athens. Do some shrewd forest sprites and a blundering group of computer techies have what it takes to restore love to them all?
Sibert Theatre
McGaw Fine Arts Center
Oct. 31 - Nov. 4
Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $7
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Almost, Maine
Written by John Cariani
Directed by Kate Muchmore
The people of Almost, Maine have the same struggles with relationships and dreams of love as anyone else, sort of. It seems as if they are constantly almost finding exactly what they want. The mysteries of the northern lights and distance to the stars twinkling above their heads almost seem to define their interactions with those they want to know infinitely more. In this play about the inhabitants of this fictional town, we see that love can be charming, devastating, sweet, unsatisfying, fulfilling, and most of all, unexpectedly hopeful.
The ICEBOX
Kirby Learning Center
Feb. 14-16, 21-24
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $7
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Children of a Lesser GodWritten by Mark Medoff
Directed by Nancy Taylor Porter
Running for nearly 900 performances on Broadway, Children of a Lesser God is based on the true story of a deaf actress and her hearing husband. Overcoming her initial wariness, James finally wins the heart of the intriguing Sarah. But their happiness splinters under the strain of different needs and judgments rooted in the divide between the hearing and deaf worlds. Can they truly understand and support one another, bridge the gap between them? As they learn to see themselves and their partners more clearly, they yearn for a place to love and live together between sound and silence.
Sibert Theatre
McGaw Fine Arts Center
April 20, 25-28
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $7