6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, September 8, 1988
Attention playgoers: area theaters plan
fu
season
From staff reports
Local theaters offer a diverse lineup
of drama this season to students who,
every now and then, need a little
suspension of reality in their lives.
The Manbites Dog Theater Com
pany of Durham has opened its six
production season with "Hunting
Cockroaches." In this comedy, two
Polish immigrants in the lower depths
of Manhattan go through a revealing
metamorphosis. Remaining perform
ance dates are Sept. 7-1 1 and Sept.
1 3-1 4.
"The Blood Knot," a drama about
two brothers in South Africa, will
open Oct. 27. Manbites Dog will run
this play through Oct. 29 with
additional performances Nov. 2-6
and Nov. 9-12.
On Dec. 8, Manbites will open
Tennessee Williams "Suddenly Last
Summer. " It will run Dec. 9-10, Dec.
14-18 and Dec. 21-22.
Street songs and night songs will
be highlighted' in "A Kurt Weill
Cabaret," which opens Jan. 26.
Performances will run Jan. 26-28,
Feb. 1-5 and Feb. 8-11.
"An Evening of One Act Plays,"
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featuring works by playwrights Sam
Shepard and Lanford Wilson, will
run April 6-9, April 13-15 and April
20-22.
Manbites will conclude its season
with "The Mystery of Irma Vep."
Performance dates will be May 25
27, May 31-June 4 and June 7-10.
All Manbites Dog Theater Com
pany plays will be performed in the
D.C. May Building at 1 15 Morris St.
Tickets for each play are $6. For
further information, call 286-2890.
On Sept. 17, the Durham Theatre
Guild will open its season with "Kiss
Me Kate" in the renovated Durham
Arts Council.
In this play within a play within
a play, a traveling theatrical troupe
planning to open a musical version
of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the
Shrew" runs into mayhem when the
actors take part in romantic
misadventures. '
"Kiss Me Kate" will be performed
at 4 p.m. on Sept. 18 and at 8:15
p.m. on Sept. 23-24. For ticket
information, call 560-ARTS.
The Raleigh Little Theatre began
its season with several performances
of the "The Wiz." Remaining perfor
mances will be at 8 p.m. on Sept.
7-10, Sept. 14-17 and Sept. 21-24.
"The Wiz" will also be shown at 3
p.m. on Sept. 11, 18 and 25.
Lillian Hellmann's "Toys In the
Attic" will run Oct. 28-Nov. 13. In
this hypnotically enthusiastic tale,
Hellmann sheds light on a family torn
with obsessive affections.
Dec. 9-18 marks the run of Raleigh
Little Theatre's performance of the anthrope" Feb. 3-19. In this comic
well-known "Cinderella." drama by Moliere, the plight of a
After the holidays, the season will relentlessly honest man against the
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Ticket prices for all Raleigh Little ;
Theatre plays are $9 (evenings) and'
$8 (matinees) for adults; $7 (evenings)
and $5 (matinees) for students, and !
$8 (evenings) and $6 (matinees) for;
senior citizens. For more informa-i
tion, call 821-31 11. !
Raleigh Ensemble Players will !
begin its season with "Private Con-'
tentment," a play by North Carolina '
novelist Reynolds Price. In "Private!
Contentment," a young man returns '
home from the war in 1945 for his!
mother's funeral and discovers that I
his father has a secret family consist-!
ing of a wife and a daughter.
Price's play will run Sept. 30, Oct.
1, Oct. 7-8 and Oct. 14-15.
"Win-Loose-Draw, " a collection of
three one-act plays, is .a comedy
drama that will run Feb. 3-4, Feb.
10-11 and Feb. 17-18.
John Guare's Tony Award-;
winning play "The House of Blue
Leaves" will run May 5-6, May .12-''
13 and May 19-20. In this play, a
songwriting zoo keeper's life is r
disrupted by ; his wife j w,hp literally '
goes bananas and by an unobliging!
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All three plays will start at 8:15'.
p.m. in the Sertoma Arts Center. '.
Tickets will be $6 for adults and $5'
for students. '
In the Stewart Theatre on campus
at N.C. State University, the Raleigh
Ensemble Players will perform "Sis
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You" and "Glengary Glen Ross."
"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It
All For You," a. theological farce by
Christopher Durang, will run at 8
p.m. Oct. 28-29.
David Mamet's "Glengary Glen
Ross," a 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning
dark comedy about a Florida real
estate agent and his attempts to sell
swamp lands to unsuspecting clients,
will be performed April 20-21.
Tickets for the plays performed in
Stewart Theatre will be $8 for adults
and (tentatively) $7 for students. For
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