Our Ninth Season
2013–2014

SEASON SPONSOR: NORMA DAVENPORT

Girish Karnad’s Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana)

PRODUCTION SPONSORS: NILS & ANN HASSELMO
Actors and musicians are supported in part by generous gifts from Lillian Fisher, GBL Family Fund, Dan Gilmore & JoAn Forehand, John & Pat Hemann, Pam Shack, Katherine Smith, John & Diane Wilson and an anonymous donor.

Through jealousy and devotion, two men, in love with the same woman, behead themselves in a temple. The goddess Kali brings them back to life, but with the heads interchanged. The question becomes: who is the woman’s husband and who is the lover? Directed by Joseph McGrath Thursdays through Sundays, September 12 –29, 2013 Full information about Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana) Mistake of the Goddess production photos

William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

PRODUCTION SPONSORS: WARD & JUDY WALLINGFORD
Actors and musicians are supported in part by generous gifts from John & Joyce Ambruster, Karen DeLay & Bill Sandel, John & Pat Hemann, Ruth Kosakowsky, Ed & Nancy Landes, Sumner Milender & Edie Michelson and Sheldon Trubatch & Katharina Phillips.

A complex and moving drama about public and private morality in which a nun pleads for her brother's release from prison and unleashes the lust of the judge Angelo. Directed by David Morden Thursdays through Sundays, November 7–24, 2013 Full information about Measure for Measure

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

PRODUCTION SPONSORS: JOHN & JOYCE AMBRUSTER
Actors and musicians are supported in part by generous gifts from Paul Barby, Ellen & Warren Bodow, Lillian Fisher, Bill & Carol Mangold, Bill Sandel & Karen DeLay, Jan Stewart and Sheldon Trubatch & Katharina Phillips.

Elegant and funny, this Stoppard-clever work spans two eras, two hundred years apart, centering on affairs of the heart, mind, and cosmos. Directed by Cynthia Meier Thursdays through Sundays, January 9 –26, 2014 Full information about Arcadia

Harold Pinter’s Betrayal

A unique reversal of the timeline heightens the poignancy of a love affair. Three deeply sympathetic characters meet in a collision of passion against marital fidelity. Directed by Cynthia Meier Thursdays through Sundays, February 27–March 16, 2014 Full information about Betrayal

Patrick Baliani’s Dante’s Purgatorio

PRODUCTION SPONSORS: JOAN & DOUG COOK
Actors and musicians are supported in part by generous gifts from Maura Brackett, Bryan & Lizzie Falcón, Pat & John Hemann, Bill & Carol Mangold, Katherine Smith and an anonymous donor.

A poetic reimagining of this seminal work of Western literature of the journey through the seven levels of sin, guided by the poet Virgil. Directed by Joseph McGrath Thursdays through Sundays, April 24–May 11, 2014 Full information about Dante’s Purgatorio