A world premiere.

The heroine in this actor’s tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure. Ultimately, Shirley does escape to Greece, has an “adventure” with a local fisherman and decides to stay.

Tom, a timid, middle-aged man on his lunch break, is intrigued by the flier on a college campus bulletin board about a psychological experiment and decides on a lark to volunteer.  Seduced by the experimenter into committing a frightening act, he finds himself suddenly freed by the bounds of conventional morality and no longer afraid to satisfy his cravings.

A world premiere.

A world premiere.

On the eve of his resignation due to the Watergate Scandal and other allegations, Richard Nixon chats with his friend Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. They talk about the current political situation and their rise to power in a darkly satirical fashion.

It is the morning of September 22, 1776. Nathan Hale is waiting to be hanged as a spy. A British captain, John Montresor, invites him to spend his remaining time in the captain’s tent, during which Montresor draws out the idealistic Hale. What is freedom? What is courage? What is the value of a life? Montresor subverts the young man’s dreams. By the time Hale understands Montresor’s designs, they are battling for Hale’s soul. Two hours later, Hale is executed. Montresor, under a flag of truce, delivers Hale’s effects. along with the young man’s last words, to the American rebel army. Mr. Ford has taken the circumstances of Hale’s last hours and used them to probe our country, its terrible flaws as well as its wondrous virtues, using both points of view—that of cynic and idealist—to try to understand who we are.

Following the events of O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey into Night, Moon for the Misbegotten brings James “Jamie” Tyrone, Jr. to the home of his tenant farmer, Mike Hogan, a salty Irish geezer. There he encounters, after years, Hogan’s voluptuous, Amazon-like daughter, Josie. During one moonlit night, as the lovestruck Josie seems to claim him as her own, the truculent, drunken Jamie drowns in a wave of self-pity and remorse. When dawn comes, the moon is gone and so is the man, leaving Josie with a new challenge to her dauntless spirit.

This unusual drama by a premiere contemporary dramatist focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she calls her Mecca. A young woman who was once helped by Miss Helen has traveled hundreds of miles to help her in a time of crisis Miss Helen is in danger of being sent to an old folks’ home by a narrow minded minister who considers her sculptures a public nuisance. A penetrating study of the role of the artist in any society, this important play was produced in London and New York to great critical acclaim.