A Keen revival of intimate proportions. A. R. Gurney's masterpiece of 20th Century family life – formal, informal, and impossible – explodes across the stage in a series of scenes dissecting birthday parties, holidays, breakfasts, affairs, and every imaginable form of American familial relations. Spanning the century and a single day at the same time,
THE DINING ROOM is a humorous and moving evocation of family life,
past and present.
by David Hay
directed by Carl Forsman
The Clurman Theatre
January 15 - February 23
2008
Featuring:
Peter Benson,
Richard Bekins,
William Connell,
Lisa Emery,
Terry Layman
Ernest Hemingway complained bitterly that his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, knew “everything about humanity but nothing about human beings.” The question is posed again in this story of Gellhorn’s desperate attempt, in her mid-60’s, to fulfill her lifelong ambition: to write a luminous novel. Famous for her eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil war, the devastation at Dachau, and the American bombing of Vietnam, the forgotten, still glamorous journalist has returned to London from exile in Kenya. Goaded on by a smart, younger generation of writers to make good on her promise, she sets out on a painful, errant path that contradicts Hemingway’s assertion and yields an utterly surprising result.
by Michael Murphy
directed by Carl Forsman
The Clurman Theatre
March 4- April 19
2008
Featuring: Chad Carstarphen,
Jimonn Cole,
John Cullum,
Bryan Hicks,
Jonathan Hogan,
Rachel Leslie,
James Miles,
Steve Routman,
Geddeth Smith,
Harold Suratt,
DB Woodside
"DB Woodside and John Cullum are fine actors in Carl Forsman's sharply focused production. THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
shows how theatre can be absorbing and also earn a place in today's political conversation."
- The New York Times -
