Common Ground Theatre Announces Fall 2009 Schedule

Common Ground Theatre (www.cgtheatre.com) is a performance and teaching space located in west Durham, offering performing arts and educational groups a flexible, well-equipped alternative space. The Theatre provides a convenient venue for Triangle audiences to experience the diversity of our area's arts and educational offerings. All events listed will be held at Common Ground Theatre.

The Theatre is hosting the following events in FALL 2009:

Transactors Improv Presents: City of Medicine- Season Three

Join us for our third season of this completely improvised serial medical drama. Inspired by Grey's Anatomy and E.R., this real-life drama is set at Bull City Medical Center, Durham's newest teaching hospital. Each show the cast is joined by a special guest who is either saved or killed by our doctors. Don't miss a single episode! City of Medicine: Where who you heal is not nearly as important as whose heart you steal.

Fridays, September 4, October 2 & November 13 at 8pm Eastern
Tickets: $12-General, $10-Students & Seniors
Reservations: (919) 698-3870
Website: www.transactors.org

 

Ghost & Spice Productions Presents: Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo- TRIANGLE PREMIERE

Darkly comic, fascinating, gut wrenching. This riveting full-length play pairs Edward Albee's landmark 1958 play, The Zoo Story, with its recently penned prequel, Homelife. Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo examines a deliciously revealing and nuanced relationship between a husband and wife, and then catapults the husband into a life-changing encounter on the same day with a desperate outcast. It demonstrates why Edward Albee continues to be one of our greatest living dramatists.

September 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 & 26 at 8:00 p.m.
September 20 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $16- General, $14- Students & Seniors
THURSDAYS ARE HALF PRICE AT GHOST & SPICE!
Reservations: (888) 239-9253
Website: www.ghostandspice.com

Bare Theatre presents: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

The classic battle of the sexes as staged by one of Common Ground's resident companies. Bare is a group of artists dedicated to simple, eclectic, non-traditional and spontaneous theatre. They hope to give their audience a clear, articulate and passionate experience of theatre with little other than a room, audience, the actors, and the text.

October 8, 9, 10 at 8:00 p.m., October 9 & 10 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15- General, $8- Student/Senior/Military
Information: (919) 332-0317
Website: www.baretheatre.org

FatMouth Improv

Silliness with a purpose! Short and longform improv based on audience suggestions-- all in one evening.

Saturday, October 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $7
Information: (919) 698-3870
Website: www.fatmouthimprov.com

 

Turbulence Presents: The Insanity of Mary Girard by Lanie Robertson

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past.

October 23, 24, 30 & 31 at 8:00 p.m.,
October 31 at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10- General, $8- Students & Seniors

Curtain Calls Productions Presents: The Laramie Project by The Tectonic Theater Project

The Laramie Project is a play about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder is widely considered to be a hate crime motivated by homophobia.

Directed by DSA student Maya Shaw.

November 6& 7 at 7:00 p.m.
November 7& 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5
Reservations: (919) 616-1304

 

Anima Dance and Common Ground Theatre Present: Oh, Beautiful: My Patriot Act by Rachel Brooker

Oh, Beautiful: My Patriot Act is an evening-length performance using dance, text and video to present a kaleidoscope of qualities of the US today through the eyes of an expatriate. US-born Choreographer Rachel Brooker has lived in Berlin for three years, and through the benefit of distance has begun to address her native culture in her work. Dance, text, sound and video amplify, support and antagonize each other, just as Brooker's contradictory perspectives and emotions about her homeland form, through their conflict, a fraught but coherent picture of US culture and politics at this moment in history.

November 20& 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: TBD
Reservations: (919) 698-3870

 

Common Ground Theatre Presents: A Trailer Park Christmas by Jeffrey Moore & Rachel Klem

Local filmmaker Jeffrey Moore and Common Ground Theatre owner Rachel Klem team up to present this interactive, holiday entertainment. Set in West Durham, A Trailer Park Christmas follows the Dodson/ Hussy family as they grapple with crazy neighbors, ghosts, fruitcakes and a holiday tornado.

December 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 p.m.
December 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $17.00- General, $15.00- Students & Seniors
Reservations: (919) 698-3870

 

For more information, visit www.cgtheatre.com.

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