PRIDE & PREJUDICE, RABBIT HOLE & More Set for Ross Valley Players' 2010-2011 Season

The Ross Valley Players kicks off it's new season with David Mamet's political comedy "November," opening on Sept. 17. James Dunn directs this play about U.S. President Charles "Chucky" Smith nearing the end of his first term and dealing with the unfavorable prospects that he will be elected for a second term.

The season continues with the stage adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," opening Nov. 12; the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning mystery "Doubt," opening Jan. 14; the musical "Quilters," opening March 18; David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Rabbit Hole," opening May 13; and the hilarious British comedy "Table Manners," opening July 15.

The Ross Valley Players will also present a holiday variety show in December and Ross Alternative Works festivals in February and August.

The Ross Valley Players' Barn Theatre is located at the Marin Art & Garden Center in Ross. To purchase season tickets or for more information call 415-456-9555 or visit the website at www.rossvalleyplayers.com

Ross Valley Players' 2010-2011 Season:

March 18 to April 17, 2011
Quilters
Book by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, lyrics and music by Barbara Damashek
Based on the book "The Quilters:Women and Domestic Art" by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen
Directed by Linda Dunn

The construction of a quilt is the framework for this musical featuring poignant tales about the struggles and triumphs of American pioneer women, with each block of the quilt representing personal stories including girlhood, marriage, childbirth and spinsterhood.

May 13 to June 12, 2011
Rabbit Hole
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Mary Ann Rodgers

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play (2007) tells the story of a couple trying to recover from the accidental death of their four-year-old son. Occasionally funny and always heartrending, "The Rabbit Hole" explores how grief effects us as individuals and families.

July 15 to Aug. 14, 2011
Table Manners
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Robert Wilson

This hilarious British comedy takes you to the dining room of a family mansion where an extended family of two sisters, a brother and their significant others dish-up emotional mayhem at every meal. Sarcasm, tasty barbs and zingers are on the menu in this delicious comedy which is the first of three plays in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy entitled "The Norman Conquests."

For season tickets call 415-456-9555 or visit the website at www.rossvalleyplayers.com.

 

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