PICT’s 2012 season: GET TURNED ON!

In the Next Room, or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl
Director: Alan Stanford
April 18 – May 5, 2012

The most stimulating play in American theatre today! Dr. Givings is a physician who treats “female hysteria” patients with a new electric invention, while in the adjoining room his own wife yearns for what is missing in their marriage.

The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall
Director: Andrew S. Paul
May 31 – June 23, 2012

A true story about  an inspiring group of miners who touched the hearts of audiences around the world! In 1934, a group of Ashington miners learn to paint and become celebrated artists…but every day, they returned to work in the mines.

Chekhov Festival

Three Sisters
Ivanov
Funny Chekhov (short vaudevilles)
After Chekhov (The Yalta Game and Afterplay by Brian Friel)
Directors: Harriet Powers, Andrew S. Paul, Alan Stanford
July 19 – August 26, 2012

In Chekhov’s scenes of provincial life, comic mayhem arises from quarrels over land and money, strategic alliances (usually marriages), and a sense of personal failure that lies, as one character has it, “beyond self ruin”.  Three Sisters poignantly conveys the struggles, loves and secret desires of Masha, Olga, and Irina and their somewhat ineffectual brother Andrey. Ivanov was the twenty-seven-year-old Chekhov’s shot at dispatching the ‘superfluous man’ of Russian literature; in surrounding him with a brilliantly-drawn set of provincial types, he created some of the finest comedy he ever wrote.

Friel adapts Chekhov’s famous short story “Lady with the Lapdog”, and pairs Vanya’s niece Sonya with the three sisters’ brother Andrei in After Chekhov. Funny Chekhov features four short comic vaudevilles.

The School for Lies by David Ives
Adapted from Moliere’s The Misanthrope
Director: Andrew S. Paul
November 29 – December 15, 2012

A disillusioned curmudgeon named Frank into direct conflict with everyone he meets when he vows to tell the truth – no matter how disconcerting or offensive it may be!