Trinity Rep has announced that its 2012-2013 Season "will be studded throughout with explosive theatrical events that celebrate the notion of epics – fantastical tales that cut across generations, brought to life as only our resident acting company can." "Next season’s plays will explore tales that are epic not only in their scale of time, but in their undertaking, their nod to the spectacular, and their fearless look at the uncomfortable and the taboo,” stated Artistic Director Curt Columbus. “This season affords us the exhilarating chance to showcase our resident acting company’s ability through once-in-a-lifetime theatrical events, world premieres, and more.”
About the season: The season will open with Shakespeare’s epic tragedy, King Lear, in a co-production with Dallas Theater Center (DTC). Directed by DTC Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty, who came up through the Trinity Rep Conservatory to then take the helm of the directing program at what was then the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium, this powerful masterpiece shows us the havoc that loss and madness can wreak on one man’s life, his family, and his kingdom. Resident acting company member Brian McEleney stars as Lear. In the winter of 2013, the company will travel to Dallas to remount the production on DTC’s stage.
In November, Sarah Treem’s (writer for HBO’s In Treatment) The How and the Why will be presented in the intimate Dowling Theater.
Back again after a sold-out run is the holiday classic – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – now available on sale to subscribers. A Christmas Carol will play from November 9 – December 29.
Artistic Director Curt Columbus and Marilyn Campbell’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment will provide the centerpiece of our Project Discovery educational program – from January through March.
April will usher in Social Creatures, a world premiere by Jackie Sibblies Drury – an edgy new playwright from the Brown MFA program in the tradition of the critically acclaimed likes of Sarah Ruhl and Adam Bock – was commissioned by Trinity Repertory Company to develop for its resident acting company. The end result is a strangely beautiful, beautifully strange “dramedy.” A sidesplitting and truly terrifying look at what lies ahead for us at the end of the line, audiences have seen nothing like it before.
Closing the season from June to July is the New England premiere of a show-stopping, absolutely massive comedic undertaking – 16 actors will perform Alan Ayckbourn’s House & Garden in tandem on two stages. Fans of 2010’s smash hit Absurd Person Singular will be delighted to know that director Brian McEleney will helm these gems. While the actors race from House (in the Dowling Theater) to Garden (in the Chace), the lucky audience stays put, seeing each production one at a time, in either order, and enjoying Ayckbourn’s wacky characters, gin-soaked truths and high-speed topsy-turvy story.
2012-2013 Season | September 2012 – July 2013
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kevin Moriarty
A co-production with Dallas Theater Center
September - October
Our resident acting company joins forces with the acclaimed Dallas Theater Center for a co-production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. The aging King Lear decides to divide England between his three daughters. Driven by flattery, foolishness, ambition and greed, one generation betrays another. Lear loses his daughters, his power and perhaps his mind, and yet there is still hope: in the end, love endures. In the winter, Trinity Repertory Company’s actors will venture to Dallas to remount this thrilling co-production. Resident acting company member Brian McEleney stars as Lear.
The How and the Why by Sarah Treem
November - December
This intimate production features two brilliant characters – one in her fifties, one her twenties – each with her own take on the controversial debate surrounding the theory of evolution. In this funny, gripping new play, a mentor and her protégé bond and spar over the personal and professional consequences of their own diametrically opposed theories. Fast and witty, inspiring and provocative, this wry gem from Sarah Treem (of HBO’s In Treatment) is both engrossing and powerful.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Adapted by Curt Columbus and Marilyn Campbell
Directed by Brian Mertes
January – March
