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Imaginary Theater Company
is coming to the the Cape Fear Playhouse to present David Ives’ daring comic drama, Venus in Fur. May 30th through June 23rd Thurs -Sat at 8:00, Sun Matinee at 3:00pm Tickets are $23 & $25 and available through our Get Tickets tab above. Click HERE to learn more about Imaginary Theater Company and their show! This show is intended for mature audiences as it contains adult situations and language. |
The Rest of our 2013 Season
‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. This eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play explores the final hour in the life of a young woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living. "…honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic, and…unmanipulatively moving…" —NY Magazine. "It is sparse and concise, introspective and penetrating, powerful and uncompromising, intense and intelligent, warm and theatrical. It is THE American tragedy." —New England Entertainment Digest. "Something I hadn't seen in a long time happened at 'NIGHT, MOTHER: The audience still sat applauding after the house lights came up, as if waiting for the cast to come round and join them." —Village Voice. "…a shattering evening…" —NY Times.
August 8-11, 15-18, 22-25
Tartuffe by Moliere
This comedic farce takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe—a fraud and a pious imposter—has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, until his duplicity is finally exposed and punished. A merciless examination of the evil that men can commit in the guise of religious fervor and the dangers that imperil those who would believe only what they choose to believe despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
September 19-22, 26-29 and Oct. 3-6
In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating "hysteria" in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor's laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new "hysterical" patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor's home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means to love someone. “Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling...one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years...In the Next Room is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys — or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys — but for adults with open hearts and minds." - The New York Times
October 31-Nov. 3, 7-10, 14-17
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. This eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play explores the final hour in the life of a young woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living. "…honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic, and…unmanipulatively moving…" —NY Magazine. "It is sparse and concise, introspective and penetrating, powerful and uncompromising, intense and intelligent, warm and theatrical. It is THE American tragedy." —New England Entertainment Digest. "Something I hadn't seen in a long time happened at 'NIGHT, MOTHER: The audience still sat applauding after the house lights came up, as if waiting for the cast to come round and join them." —Village Voice. "…a shattering evening…" —NY Times.
August 8-11, 15-18, 22-25
Tartuffe by Moliere
This comedic farce takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe—a fraud and a pious imposter—has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, until his duplicity is finally exposed and punished. A merciless examination of the evil that men can commit in the guise of religious fervor and the dangers that imperil those who would believe only what they choose to believe despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
September 19-22, 26-29 and Oct. 3-6
In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating "hysteria" in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor's laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new "hysterical" patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor's home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means to love someone. “Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling...one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years...In the Next Room is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys — or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys — but for adults with open hearts and minds." - The New York Times
October 31-Nov. 3, 7-10, 14-17
2013: Not your typical season
Big Dawg Productions is pleased to announce our 2013 Season!
After considering dozens of plays, six were chosen based not only on their individual merits, but also on their ability to reflect elements of a larger, cohesive theme. The theme for Big Dawg’s 2013 Season is “Family”. An element of Big Dawg’s new Artistic Direction is to provide quality entertainment and expression to our audience, while also illustrating our commitment to being an integral member of our community.
With that in mind, these six plays, through a mixture of comedy and drama, each reflect the joys and stresses that families experience, whether set in the distant past or in modern times. At times, the trials that a family may face spring from external forces and at times they are brought about by members of that family themselves. It is our hope that the plays that make up our 2013 Season will offer not only amusement and entertainment, but also inspire us to consider what role family plays in our community, and in our lives.
As Big Dawg enters its 18th year of producing entertaining, thought-provoking, and socially responsible theater, we will be unveiling additional projects to complement our 2013 Season, which will further reflect our artistic vision as well as enhance Big Dawg’s commitment to our community.
After considering dozens of plays, six were chosen based not only on their individual merits, but also on their ability to reflect elements of a larger, cohesive theme. The theme for Big Dawg’s 2013 Season is “Family”. An element of Big Dawg’s new Artistic Direction is to provide quality entertainment and expression to our audience, while also illustrating our commitment to being an integral member of our community.
With that in mind, these six plays, through a mixture of comedy and drama, each reflect the joys and stresses that families experience, whether set in the distant past or in modern times. At times, the trials that a family may face spring from external forces and at times they are brought about by members of that family themselves. It is our hope that the plays that make up our 2013 Season will offer not only amusement and entertainment, but also inspire us to consider what role family plays in our community, and in our lives.
As Big Dawg enters its 18th year of producing entertaining, thought-provoking, and socially responsible theater, we will be unveiling additional projects to complement our 2013 Season, which will further reflect our artistic vision as well as enhance Big Dawg’s commitment to our community.
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Non-Profit Theatre Company in Historic Downtown Wilmington
613 Castle St Wilmington NC 28401 *(910) 367-5237* bigdawgpro@gmail.com |
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