Strand Theater 2010-2011 Season Announced

Strand's 2010-2011 Season Announced. Kicks off with The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
October 2 - 23, 2010
The Glory of Living tells the story of Lisa, a 15-year-old girl, and her marriage to Clint, an ex-con twice her age. Systematically abused by her husband, Lisa is coerced into helping him commit crimes of varying magnitude, including murder.

A Peppermint Patty Christmas
by Kate Bishop
December 2- 18, 2010
A Peppermint Patty Christmas is brought to you by local playwright, Charm City Kitty, and lesbian activist, Kate Bishop. Patricia dreads going home for the holidays. It seems her winter gloom descends like the dancing robot Santas and the light-up Messiahs, earlier and earlier every year. But this year, she's going to set a different dinner table -- this year she's going to try something new. She will tell the truth. The whole truth. And nothing. But. The truth.

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
February 3 - 19, 2011
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. (Rights Pending).

One Flea Spare
by Naomi Wallace
April 21 - May 7, 2011
Hilarious and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been set into chaos. And whilst the wealthy William Snelgrave dreams of sweating, swearing tars, and of how sailors satisfy their "baser instincts" so far away from female company, his own wife, untouched for 40 years, is discovering that her dreadfully burned body may not be numb after all. The human heart craves comfort, contact, tenderness; surviVal May take many forms.

The Strand's 2010-2011 season is dedicated to women writers!