Heartland Theatre Company Announces its New 2008-2009 Season!

The 7th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival

The Coffee Shop
May 29,30,31 & June 5,6,7,8,12,13,14,18,19, 20,21

Eight Winning Plays from play submissions representing 38 states and 5 countries!Who exactly are the denizens of an all-night coffee shop? Maybe a couple of cops grabbing doughnuts at the end of a long day. Maybe someone in dire need of a piece of pie or desperate for the blue-plate special. Maybe somebody with no place else to go.

Bill W. and Dr. Bob
by Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey
Directed by Don LaCasse

September 4,5,6,7,11,12,13,14,18,19,20,21

Wall Street securities analyst William Griffith Wilson (1895-1971) was a smashed-up wreck until one day in 1935, when, in the Akron, Ohio, parlor of a lady bountiful named Henrietta Sieberling, he was introduced to “Dr. Bob” — Dartmouth graduate Robert Holbrook Smith (1879-1950), an Akron surgeon who, to his terror, often operated when plastered.

The Clean House
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Sandi Zielinski

November 6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,20,21,22,23

The Clean House" is an exuberant and heartbreaking piece of work. It's "about" a cleaning woman who hates to clean, but it's really about laughter and death and fury and love, about all the ways we misunderstand each other but somehow manage to connect anyway, and about our longing to make sense of an often senseless world.

Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Cyndee Brown

February 19,20,21,22,26,2,28 & March 1,5,6,7,8

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, is teeming with wit, compassion and honesty. Becca and Howard Corbett have everything a family could want until fate shatters the balance and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole is a story of family, with beautifully developed relationships that allow us to recognize ourselves in the characters. “A beautifully observed new play.” -NY Times

Russian Dream
by Olga Mikhailova
Directed by Diane Mishler

April 16, 17,18,23,24,25,26,30 & May 1,2,3

“Russian Dream” is a romance between Moscow resident Ilya Petrovna and visiting American, Kimberley, that stretches over fifteen turbulent years of change in American/Russian policies. The entire play transpires in Ilya’s room which is a part of a commune where his grandmother, mother and three nosey neighbors respond to the growing love as we see it materialize and mature. Considered a rising star of the contemporary Russian theatre, Olga Mikhailova has crafted a comedy that is exceptional in many different and imaginative ways.