Love! Valour! Compassion!
September 18 - October 18, 2009
Written by Terrance McNally
Directed by Fuzz Roark
More >During a lakeside summer vacation, eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. We follow the sweet and sad story of this perfect summer at a country estate in upstate New York as the men come to terms with AIDS, death, love, compassion, and the thin bonds of friendship that hold them together.
Winner of many theatre awards over the years including the Tony Award for best play in 1995.
"...in this beautifully written work McNally...presents humbling evidence of what human love is and can be."- The New Yorker
"...LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! is one of [McNally's] very best. Unshowy and quiet, it rings louder with authenticity than his satiric farces do with laughter."- The Village Voice
The Clean House
November 6 - December 6, 2009
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Steve Goldklang
More >Sarah Ruhl's brilliant comedy revolves around Lane, a doctor who can't stand to clean her own house. Unfortunately for the busy physician, her depressed young cleaning lady, Mathilde's attitude toward dirt is as follows: "If the floor is dirty, look at the ceiling." Zoloft doesn't help, but Lane's sister, Virginia, secretly takes on the job with uproarious results.
THE CLEAN HOUSE won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language play written by a woman, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Variety called the play a "...wondrously mad and moving work..." and The New York Times dubbed it a deeply romantic comedy, "...visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in feeling, maybe a little nuts."
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
December 10 - 20, 2009
Adapted by Joe Landry
Directed by Mike Moran
More >Inspired by the film starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, this beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY tells the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
Five actors perform the dozens of characters in the radio play as well as produce the sound effects.
""One of the best holiday shows around. This is a fresh and inventive way of reconnecting with a classic story of love and redemption."- Chicago Sun-Times
The Miser
January 15 - February 14, 2010
Written by Moliere
Directed by Barry Feinstein
More >L'Avare (The Miser) is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Moliere. The story involves a rich money-lender, Harpagon, whose feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers. THE MISER is a comedy of manners to which the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected.
FPCT's production in two acts is a modern take on Moliere's classic and begs the question: How much does money matter? It will leave you laughing and thinking about our modern predicaments.
Eleemosynary
March 12 - April 11, 2010
Written by Lee Blessing
Directed by Sherrionne Brown
More >Eleemosynary probes into the subtle and often perilous relationship between three singularly remarkable women: the grandmother, Dorothea, who has sought to assert her independence through strong-willed eccentricity; her brilliant daughter, Artie, who has fled the stifling domination of her mother; and Artie’s daughter Echo, a child of exceptional intellect – and sensitivity – whom Artie has abandoned to an upbringing by Dorothea.
“. . . the language is elegant, witty and carefully wrought.”- Philidelphia City Paper
“. . . an engrossing 95- minute entry - alternately funny and poignant . . .”- Variety
“It is a wonderful job of playwriting.”- Minneapolis Star and Tribune
“. . . a funny, perceptive and eloquently written play . . .”St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch
Director Sherrionne Brown, is a staple at FPCT, including productions of "Side Man", "Three Days of Rain" and "Burn This". She also provides here diretorial talents at other theatres around town, including the Spotlighters productions, "Picnic", "The Lion in Winter", "All My Sons" and "Mary Mary", and "Proof" at Cockpit-in-Court.
Journey's End
May 7 - June 6, 2010
Written by R.C. Sherriff
Directed by Richard Dean Stover
More >JOURNEY'S END is the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff, first performed in London at the Apollo Theatre on December 9, 1928.
Set in the trenches at Saint-Quentin, France, in 1918 towards the end of the First World War, JOURNEY'S END gives a glimpse into the experiences of the officers of a British Army infantry company in World War I. The entire story plays out in the officers' dugout over four days from March 18, 1918 to March 21, 1918.
The plays themes run wide between social status and camaraderie to the futility and scaring effect of war and death.
2007 winner of both the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.
"...an uncompromising, clear-eyed play about war - and not war as it echoes on the home front or in chambers of government, but war as a daily phenomenon for those who fight it. "- N.Y. Times



