Sloth ATTENTION – CANCELLATION.  2pm 4/30, and 2pm 5/1 canceled.

All 8pm shows still on.

A dramatic comedy
by Bruce B. Post
April 22 – May 15
Directed by Aaron J. Schmookler

Harve, a widower and retired firefighter is left alone as the caretaker of the estate his granddaughter inherited when his daughter died. There’s a firebug in the neighborhood burninghouses down. The stable-boy caring for Harve’s horses is getting restless. Will the house have to burn down around him to get Harve out of his rocking chair? Who is left for Harve to care about?  And what will it take to make him care again?
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Sloth
a dramatic comedy by Bruce B. Post
April 22 – May 15

Harve, a widower and retired firefighter is left alone as the caretaker of the estate his granddaughter inherited when his daughter died.  There’s a firebug in the neighborhood burning houses down.   The stable boy caring for Harve’s horses is getting restless.  Will the house have to burn down around him to get Harve out of his rocking chair?  Who is left for Harve to care about?  And what will it take to make him care again?

Lost in Yonkers
a comedy by Neil Simon
September 9 – October 2

Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize, this memory play is set in 1942 Yonkers. Bella, is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. Ne’r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the
old lady’s doorstep. He is broke and taking to the road as a salesman.  The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hood.
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
a holiday spectacle by Tom Mula
November 25 – December 18
“Marley was dead, to begin with…” Chained and shackled, Marley is condemned to a hellish eternity. He’s even given his own private tormentor: a malicious little hell-sprite who thoroughly enjoys his work. Desperate, Marley accepts his one chance to free himself: To escape his own chains, he must first redeem Scrooge. So begins a journey of laughter and
terror, redemption and renewal, during which Scrooge’s heart, indeed, is opened; but not before Marley—in this irreverent, funny and deeply moving story—discovers his own.

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Storytellers have long been held in communities as transmitters of wisdom through the adventures of the characters in tales and fables.  In that tradition, we present the stories of characters grappling with wisdom for the benefit of our community through the production of plays with the highest artistic standards.

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