Abingdon Theatre Company Announces '07/8 Season

Abingdon Theatre Company has announced its 2007/8 season.  The company's 15th Anniversary season of new plays by American playwrights. The season will feature two Mainstage Productions in the June Havoc Theatre and two Studio Productions in the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, both located in the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 W. 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues in New York City).

The 2007-2008 season "features four plays that deal with the repercussions of cultural dislocation on personal identity, offering insights into the complex emotional, political, familial and cultural struggles of immigrants, particularly those seeking political asylum," state press notes. 

The season is as follows:

The Goldman Project
By Staci Swedeen
Directed by Joe Brancato
September 28 – October 28, June Havoc Theatre
"This moving drama explores the lingering legacy of the Holocaust as an aging survivor is forced to confront the shattering secrets of her long buried past — secrets that have kept her emotionally distant from her middle aged son and only child."

Cry Havoc
By Tom Coash
Directed by Kim T. Sharp
October 20 – November 11, Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
"In this tender and shocking play, set in present day Cairo, a British expatriate writer and his male Egyptian lover are forced to examine the fine line between conviction and obsession as they confront a repressive government and their own identities."

Rum & Coke
By Carmen Peláez
Directed by Carl Andress
February 1 – March 2, June Havoc Theatre
By Carmen Peláez
Directed by Carl Andress
"Pain is funny in this bracing one-woman show, as Camila plunges headlong into her family history during a trip to Havana via Miami. A ferociously comic look at life seen through a Cuban lens, this is a journey that is both multi-media event and hilariously poignant memoir."

Another Vermeer
By Bruce Robinson.
March 29 – April 20, Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
"Does art help one deal with the void at the center of life, or does it cause it? That is the question at the core of this fact-based drama, as accomplished Dutch painter Han Van Meegeren must prove that he has forged the Vermeer he sold to Goering during WWII, or face the death penalty for treason."

Tickets are $35 for Mainstage Productions, and $20 for Studio Productions, and will go on sale beginning Wednesday, August 1, 2007. $55 memberships to Abingdon Theatre Company, which offer an unlimited number of tickets to each production for a 50% discount will also be on sale beginning August 1, 2007. Call SmartTix at 212.868.4444 or visit their website: www.smarttix.com to purchase individual tickets or memberships.

For more information about Abingdon Theatre Company, visit www.abingdontheatre.org or www.myspace.com/abingdontheatrecompany.

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