2010/2011 Season
The 7th season is exactly what you expect from Second Thought Theatre, great theatre that asks you to think BIG, think BOLD, think AHEAD, just THINK.
mainstage series
by Will Eno
directed by Matt Gray
starring Steven Walters
JANUARY 13 - 29, 2011
He's just like you, except worse. He is trying to save his life, to save your life—in that order. In his quest for salvation, he'll stop at nothing, be distracted by nothing, except maybe a piece of lint, or the woman in the second row.
"Astonishing in its impact...It's one of those treasured nights in the theatre—treasured nights anywhere, for that matter—that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there. Mr. Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation...To sum up the more or less indescribable: THOM PAIN is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life's worth...a small masterpiece." -NY Times.
Sponsored by the Noble NoZe Brotherhood
by Adam Rapp
directed by Regan Adair
starring Ensemble Member Drew Wall
APRIL 21 - MAY 13th, 2011
Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute named Christina. But the romance they find in Europe is eventually overshadowed by the truth they discover at home.
"Spellbinding and haunting...Rapp is the real thing, a poet in the grand tradition of 'la boheme.' Not by accident is his story full of homages to the erotically charged novels of Henry Miller; the generation-shaping Godard film, Breathless; the enticing chansons of French cabaret artists; and the homegrown debauchery and heartbreak of Tom Watts." -Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
by Christopher Shinn
directed by Lee Trull
JUNE 16 - JULY 2, 2011
A year after her husband's death in Iraq, Kelly, a young therapist, confronts his identical twin brother, who shows up at her apartment unannounced.
"Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the creepy, sophisticated welding of form and content that is DYING CITY. Anyone who has followed the career of Mr. Shinn, who is in his early thirties, knows that he uses tidy dramatic formulas the better to frame the defiant messiness of human lives. He hooks you with tantalizing exposition�and the lure of a wham-bang solution... and then leaves you alone with your racing mind in a forest of ambiguities. On one level DYING CITY is as satisfyingly spooky, crisp and corny as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But in answering the plot's whodunit-type questions, it spawns a wriggling host of other, deeper questions that stay with you into the night...Unlike so many contemporary plays DYING CITY raises obvious, important issues in anything but obvious ways." -NY Times.
festival series
BOB BIRDNOW'S REMARKABLE TALE OF HUMAN SURVIVAL AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF SELF
by Eric Steele
directed by Lee Trull
starring Barry Nash
Festival of Independent Theaters
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Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and Transcendence of Self tells the story of a courageous man, or a cowardly one, depending on how you choose to look at it. Birdnow’s a former pilot who endured a terrible tragedy: he crashed his plane, killing all of his closest friends, and nearly himself. Steele explores the connection between our survival mechanism and our larger purpose on this earth as human beings. Bleak though the subject matter may sound, Mr. Steele finds a way to make Bob Birdnow’s journey hopeful, and even beautiful. Birdnow’s plight reminds us that pain and tragedy light the way to salvation and that the darkest of times are an opportunity for clarity. Life is hard, and tragedy is harder, especially when the loss of a loved one is at its epicenter. But in this play, much like in life, there’s a glimmer of hope: that through our pain, we can find our greatest self, pick ourselves up and get on with the business of life…living.
Performances:
Performances will be held at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive Dallas TX 75218
For more information call the Bath House at 214.670.8749
