2009 Season
CHANGE’s 5th Season
change the way you look at life
March 12-15 & 19-22, 2009
The Pillowman
a black comedy by Martin McDonagh
Central Iowa Premiere
2004 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
2005 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Words do matter.
With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, The Pillowman centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders.
(CHANGE advisory: This play contains disturbing dialogue, situations, and imagery)
May 7-10 & 14-17, 2009
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
by Terrence McNally
Turn the page.
Frankie and Johnny are discovered in bed. It is their first encounter and Frankie is hopeful that Johnny will now depart. But Johnny has other ideas. Out of their sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious interplay the promise of a relationship beyond a “one-night stand” begins to emerge.
June 5-7, 2009
711 Theatre Project 2009
(YES! part of CHANGE’s season ticket package)
June 18-21 & 25-28, 2009
Free Shakespeare in the Park
The Winter’s Tale
CHANGE will be teaming up again with
Pella Shakespeare Company
Romeo & Juliet
(not part of CHANGE’s season ticket package - because it’s FREE!)
September 18-20, 22, 25-27, 2009
The (Continuing) Amazing Adventures of Nigel & Bridgette
Seeing is believing and we all want to believe
They are back - the 2008 sensation returns with new adventures! Take a fragment of “Fawlty Towers”, a modicum of “Monty Python”, a granule of “Good Neighbors”, a dash of “Dr. Who”, a pinch of “The Prisoner”, a scrap of “Star Trek”, Elvis Presley, Ouija Boards, Alternate Dimensions, Overdue 17th Century Library Books, Mysterious Catacombs, Something Called An ‘Atavachron’, and of course Pirates … and you have our September show: “The (Continuing) Amazing Adventures of Nigel & Bridgette.” Think of it as Rob and Laurie Petrie meet the X-Files – but in England.
November 13-15 & 20-22, 2009
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
1968 Tony Award® Best Play
1968 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best Play
There are two sides to every story.
What were they doing there in Elsinore anyway? “I don’t know; we were sent for.” They are not only anti agents, but also anti sympathy, anti identification, and in fact anti persons, which is uniquely demonstrated by their having such a hard time recollecting which of them goes by what name. In the end, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their “only exit is death.”
(dates and productions subject to change)
