Our 2011 Season
• Machines Like Us
March 4th – 26th
Seven world premiere plays commemorating the 75th anniversary of the coining of the word “robot.”
* Getting Betta
by Don Fried
Michael is a technologically challenged senior. One day, Betta arrives, unexpected and mysterious. Can
she prevent him from destroying his DVR and himself? A touching, funny new play by the author of
Senior Moments, Postville, and Shakespeare Incorporated.
* Robots at Play
6 wild and funny short plays commissioned by TCL
– “The Uncanny Valley Girl” by Madge Montgomery. A technology professor tries to understand people’s aversion
—to robots.
– “The End of the World (As We Know It)” by David Golden. Does community theater exist in a post-apocolyptic
—world?
– “Going Shopping” by Linda Berry. Just before their wedding, the perfect couple searches for a domestic assistant
—to match themselves.
– “Upgrade” by CP Stancich. Sometimes an upgrade isn’t an improvement.
– “The Speaker” by Yohanan Kaldi. A man longs for silence in the presence of an uncooperative loud speaker.
– “Star-Crossed” by Emily Golden. A lonely young woman may have found the perfect lover.
• Inherit the Wind
April 29th – May 21st
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
More relevant today than ever.
• Becky’s New Car
June 10th – July 2nd
by Steven Dietz
A preposterous, hilarious ride by one of America’s
foremost contemporary playwrights.
• Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 8)
October 21st – November 12th
TCL’s zany interpretations of 3 more episodes from
the classic TV series.