2008-2009 Season
2008-2009 Season Brochure (PDF)
Both Your Houses
Walter C. Kelly, Sheppard Strudwick
and Mary Philips in Both Your Houses.
by Maxwell Anderson
Friday, 11/14/08 at 8 PM
Saturday Matinee, 11/15/08 at 2 PM
Sunday Matinee, 11/16/08 at 2 PM
Sunday, 11/16/08 at 6 PM
Both Your Houses received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932-33. A young teacher from Nevada is sent to Washington DC as a Junior Senator. Idealistic and naively sure of the honesty of his fellow congressmen, he discovers himself caught in a web involving graft, perjury, and other political misdeeds. He receives an education in American politics he didn’t expect, and finds enemies and allies in surprising places. Both Your Houses will complement the exhibit on politics, “Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies,” which will be on view at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society’s exhibition from May 3, 2008 to Feb. 22, 2009.
Dream Girl
Betty Field as Georgina Allerton
in Dream Girl.
by Elmer Rice
Friday, 2/13/09 at 8 PM
Saturday Matinee, 2/14/09 at 2 PM
Sunday Matinee, 2/15/09 at 2 PM
Sunday, 2/15/09 at 6 PM
At the core of this funny comedy is Georgina Allerton, a young woman whose efforts to run a bookstore are undermined severely by her ten- dency to drift off into Walter Mitty-like flights of fancy on a regular basis. The play’s time span covers a single day of her life, during which se- veral successive extravagant and often comic day- dreams are portrayed. Her ability to escape the routine of her life contradicts her ability to deal with her own reality.
Alison’s House
Eva LeGallione played Elsa
in the 1931 production of Alison’s House.
by Susan Glaspell
Friday, 4/24/09 at 8 PM
Saturday Matinee, 4/25/09 at 2 PM
Sunday Matinee, 4/26/09 at 2 PM
Sunday, 4/26/09 at 6 PM
This 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning drama opens after Alison Stanhope, the playwright’s stand-in for Emily Dickinson, has been dead for eighteen years. Recognizing the importance of Alison’s poetry, the family did agree to its publication but maintained steadfast vigilance over her private life. Now, “the bustle in the house” is that of pac- king up books and belongings. The dismantling of the household stirs up a hornet’s nest of family feelings and secrets. It brings back the estranged daughter, Elsa, and prompts Alison’s sister, the distraught Miss Agatha, to protect a secretly kept packet of poems of a very personal nature. The drama’s central conflict is between the older and younger generation as they struggle to decide how to balance the manuscript’s deposition against the privacy of its famous author.
The 2008-2009 Season was presented at The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.
