Heartland Theatre Company's
2011-2012 Season
Non-Season Shows
For information about Flex Passes contact the Box Office.
All the shows in chronological order
10-Minute Play Festival
THE BACK PORCH
JUNE 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26 & JULY 1, 2 - 2011
In honor of our very first 10-Minute Playfest, when we launched our festival with Porch Plays, we’re going Back to the Porch. The Back Porch this time. We hope you'll join us out back, taking a rest behind the house, where there may be a rocking chair, a cool glass of lemonade, an old boyfriend dropping by, misty memories of times long past... Or a snoopy neighbor's body, a-mouldering in the ground.
Let's just see what we can cook up on the Back Porch!
The Diviners
by Jim Leonard, Jr
SEPTEMBER 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 - 2011
“A play in two acts and elegies." This intensely theatrical play, set in depression-era Indiana, concerns a mentally challenged boy and his friendship with a former preacher suffering a crisis of faith. Buddy, the boy, is pathologically frightened by water, yet he is also the town's "diviner," finding hidden water during drought times. When ex-preacher C.C. Showers arrives in tiny Zion, he attempts to help Buddy as well as stay far away from the town's empty pulpit, in what becomes a collision of faith, fear and the terrible power of good intentions.
Sirens
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
November 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 - 2011
The hit of the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays, SIRENS is a sweet, funny look at keeping love alive, with a little bit of Greek mythology on the side. Way back when, Sam wrote a hugely popular song, named "Rose Adelle" after the woman he loved. But now, 25 years later, as Sam and Rose celebrate their anniversary, he starts to hear a Siren's call. Will Sam jump overboard on their marriage? Will Rose keep the home fires burning, or turn to an old beau to while away the time? Rose Adelle, Rose Adelle, looked my way and how I fell…
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Sandra Zielinski
Presented by Heartland Theatre Company &
Illinois State University School of Theatre,
featuring ISU’s Graduate Actors.
DECEMBER 1, 2 & 3 at 7:30 p.m. and DECEMBER 3 & 4 at 2:00 p.m.
NOVEMBER 30 Preview - Special Student Price - Suggested $5 donation
Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov's classic play about the Prozorov sisters, trapped in a boring provincial town but dreaming of moving back to Moscow, is a perennial favorite, raising issues of hope, love, longing, and the elusive nature of happiness. Passionate Masha, dutiful Olga and vivacious young Irina are very different from each other, but each struggles with how to live a meaningful life when the cultured, educated world they long for is fading away.
This production is not part of the season. All tickets $10.00
Mauritius
by Theresa Rebeck
FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 MARCH 1, 2, 3, 4 - 2012
"Betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior,” is how Theresa Rebeck has described her play MAURITIUS. At first glance, the play is about valuable stamps, unscrupulous collectors and two half-sisters with very different ideas about family, loyalty and what belongs to whom. But underneath… There's plot and counterplot, scam and counter-scam, desperation and desire. All over two tiny scraps of paper printed wrong in 1847, now incredibly valuable because of that mistake. If only people were more valuable because of their mistakes…
Superior Donuts
by Tracy Letts
APRIL 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 – 2012
Set in a fading Chicago doughnut shop, this new play from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY involves Arthur Przybyszewski, a world-weary shop owner, and Franco Wicks, a street-smart kid who talks himself into a job making the perfect Polish paczki. Their unlikely friendship sparks new energy in Arthur and makes Franco start to believe in his own talent as a poet, but then real life – and Russians, cops and mobsters – intrude. Fresh, smart and endearing, SUPERIOR DONUTS is a sharp little bite of Uptown life.
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