9 CIRCLES, HAPPY NOW?, SEAGULL et al. Part of Marin's New Season

Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette announce Marin Theatre Company's 2010-11 season, its most ambitious ever.

"Our 2010-11 season showcases the artistic vitality audiences have come to expect from Marin Theatre Company. We are thrilled to kick-off the Bay Area celebration of The Brother/Sister Plays, as we combine forces with A.C.T. and Magic Theatre to introduce the Bay Area and the West Coast to the brilliant new American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney," said Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis. "We are also excited about our two world premieres as we welcome back playwright Bill Cain and director Kent Nicholson for the 2010 Sky Cooper Award winner 9 Circles, and welcome former OSF Artistic Director Libby Appel to Marin for the first time with her adaptation of Chekhov's Seagull. Two wildly funny hit comedies by Lucinda Coxon and David Lindsay-Abaire and the return of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice to the Bay Area for the first time in over 40 years round out our diverse season of passionate playwrights and provocative plays."

Season subscriptions are now available by phone at 415.388.5208 and online at www.marintheatre.org.

2010-2011 SEASON PRODUCTIONS

FUDDY MEERS
By David Lindsay-Abaire | Directed by Ryan Rilette
Mar 31 - Apr 24, 2011 | Opening Night Apr 5

Claire awakens every day with no memory, only to be walked through her "memory book" and back into her life by nervous husband David and problem son Kenny. But the strange limping, lisping man hiding under her bed has a different story for Claire about her amnesia and a secret murder plot. This hysterically funny New York hit asks the simple question, "Who should you believe when you don't even know who you are?" Hold on tight as the plot twists and turns in the rapidly unfolding funhouse mirror world of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole).

TINY ALICE
By Edward Albee | Directed by Jasson Minadakis
June 2 - 26, 2010 | Opening Night June 7

When Brother Julian agrees to visit the Church's mysterious benefactor Miss Alice in her gothic mansion, he finds himself a pawn lost in her labyrinthine world of aggressive consorts, children's games, and seething passions. Theatrically innovative, this rarely produced play first challenged audiences with its premiere in the late 60s, posing questions that far outpaced its time. Albee's infamous and lacerating treatise examines man's relationship with God and the serpentine way it is mediated through the exchange of love, money and power. MTC's revival of Tiny Alice will be the first Bay Area production in more than 40 years. Pending playwright approval.

ABOUT MTC
Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area's premiere mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a five- to six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in two intimate theaters-a 231-seat proscenium and a 99-seat thrust. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American Playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes at least one world premiere each season, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, numerous new play readings and workshops by the nation's best emerging playwrights, and a leadership position in the National New Play Network. Our numerous educational programs serve more than 6,000 students each year.

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