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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds By Paul Zindel
Aug. 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28,29 (29th is Sunday Matinee)
Winner of an Obie Award for best play of 1970, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play of the year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the play in the end celebrates the persistence of the human spirit despite very trying circumstances.
Greater Tuna By Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howard
October 8,9,15,16,22,23,29,30,31 (31st is Matinee)
Welcome to the slightly skewed world of Greater Tuna, Texas' third smallest town...where the Lions club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. Tony Award-nominated Joe Sears and co-creator Jaston Williams have received ovation upon ovation for their two plays, Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. They have performed at the White House and on Broadway captivating audiences with the play's humorous view of small-town life through the antics of two guys in wigs and dresses. Ennis Public Theatre is proud to be among the first in the region to present this hilarious view of Tuna, Texas! Ya’ll come see it!
Light Sensitive by Jim Goeghan
December 3,4,10,11,12,17,18,19,20 (19TH is Matinee & 20th is Monday evening performance)
This comedy from Jim Geoghan tells the story of two lost souls who meet in Hell's Kitchen and fall in love. Both seem unlikely candidates for romance. Tom Hanratty, once known as "the most dangerous cabdriver in New York City", has become reclusive and embittered after an accident left him blinded. He lives alone in a mess of an apartment, accepting help only from his longtime buddy, Lou D'Marco.
Edna Miles is also isolated from the rest of the world -- by her privileged upbringing, her overbearing father, and a slight disability of her own. Painfully shy, she has erected numerous barriers to protect herself from injury.
The two are brought together when Lou, in preparation for a romantic vacation in Vermont, enlists a volunteer reader -- Edna -- to take care of Tom during his absence. An epic battle of wills and wits ensues that proves, once and for all, that beauty is truly is in the eye of the beholder.
The Dixie Swim Club by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
February 4,5,11,12,18,19,25,26,27(27th is Matinee)
The Dixie Swim Club is the story of five unforgettable southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team. They set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of these weekends spanning thirty-three years. As their lives unfold, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. When fate throws a wrench into one of their lives, these friends, proving the enduring power of teamwork, rally ‘round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
The Boys Next Door
April 15,16,22,23,29,30, May 6,7,8
The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.
A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams
June 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26
This landmark play earned the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. Its message has lost little meaning in the intervening years. It is a story of culture clash between Blanche Dubois, an attractive if fading Southern belle whose pretensions of lifestyle and virtue mask darker inner realities, and Stanley Kowalski, a member of the rising industrial-working class.