GTC 2009-2010 Season
Accidental Rapture
By Eric Pfeffinger
A comedy about faith and friendship and the end of the world, premiered to critical acclaim and sold-out houses in Chicago in a production by Visions and Voices. The Chicago Tribune named it one of the top ten shows of the year and critic Chris Jones wrote, "Eric Pfeffinger's remarkable new play, Accidental Rapture, is a revelation in more ways than one. This is the most promising Chicago premiere by an unknown playwright since Rebecca Gilman's Glory of Living at the Circle Theatre years ago. Pfeffinger's thoroughly compelling new drama, premiering at the tiny Visions & Voices Theatre Company, is an original, brilliantly intelligent and laudably ambitious new script." The play's other productions include the Bloomington Playwrights Project and Valparaiso University, and it's been developed through readings and workshops at the Rattlestick, Chicago Dramatists, available light, Theatre of NOTE, the 29th Street Rep, and the Signature Theatre.
About Eric Pfeffinger:
Eric Pfeffinger is a member of the Dramatists Guild whose plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Geva Theatre Center, the Phoenix Theatre, the Noble Fool, Childsplay, Vital Theatre Company, City Theatre of Miami, Vox Humana, and elsewhere. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing and Dramatics Magazine and he's written new plays on commissions from the InterAct, the Signature Theatre and Imagination Stage. He's developed new work at PlayPenn and was a finalist for the Clubbed Thumb biennial commission. His comedy ASSHOLES & AUREOLES was the best-attended show at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival and went on to be performed around the country and to win an award in the Midtown International Theatre Festival. He's written articles for AMERICAN THEATRE magazine and is co-author of the novel THE HIGH-IMPACT INFIDELITY DIET, published by Crown and available at finer airport bookstores everywhere.
March 20, 2010
8:00 p.m.
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
Tickets: $7 (add $2.50 if purchased online)
Re-Imagining Medea: Songs from the Urban Jungle
Performed by Rhodessa Jones with Idris Ackamoor
of Cultural Odyssey
A unique performance experience of works from The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
Thursday, April 22, 7 - 9 p.m.
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
Cultural Odyssey was founded by Idris Ackamoor, Executive Director, in 1979 and joined by Rhodessa Jones, Co-Artistic Director, in 1983. Together they have developed over a dozen original productions that demonstrate their vision of "ARTS AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM." The Medea Project is one such project. It developed out of Jones' work with incarcerated women.
Sponsored by these University of Toledo Departments & Programs:
Program in Law and Social Thought | Department of Theater & Film | College of Arts and Sciences
Office of the Provost, Main Campus | President’s Diversity Lecture Series | Department of Criminal Justice
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies | Program for Academic Excellence, Global Power and Sovereignty Series
GTC 2010-2011 Season
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By Mark Evans Bryan
A professor, almost ready to admit that she is no longer the “youngest soul in the room” discovers a new outlook on life after a mysterious encounter at a faculty party. The Ohio premiere of Mark Evans Bryan's new play features GTC's founding artistic director, Sue Ott Rowlands.
Sept. 24 – 26 and October 1 – 3
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello (Cornel Gabara - Director)
A new annual tradition? Perhaps....last year's production was such a hit that we're bringing it back for another Christmas season. Sedaris' hilarious account of life as an elf in Macy's SantaLand display will help your sanity return in an otherwise crazy time of year.
Nov. 26 – 28, Dec. 3 – 5 and 9 – 11, 2010
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
4:48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane (Cornel Gabara - Director)
GTC pays tribute to the great Harold Pinter (lost to us last year) with this powerful, precise and painful look at a love triangle, moving backward from the bitter end of the affair to its furtive beginning.
Invited preview Jan. 13, run: Jan. 14 – 16, 21 – 23 & 28 – 29, 2011
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
Moon for the Misbegotten
By Eugene O'Neill (Cornel Gabara - Director)
Both comedy and drama, autobiography and fantasy, O’Neill’s last and greatest work explores two people caught where ''there is no present or future - only the past happening over and over again - now.''
Invited preview June 9, run: June 10 – 12, 17 – 19 & 24 – 25, 2011
410 Adams St. (Valentine Theatre - Studio A)
