Big Dawg is excited to announce a partial preview of our 2020 Season!
ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END
By Margaret Engel, Allison Engel
Feb. 5-9, 13-16 and 20-23
A comic look at one of our country’s most beloved voices, who captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” In this one woman show, discover the story behind America’s beloved humorist who championed women’s lives with wit that sprang from the most unexpected place of all – the truth.
THE BOOK Of WILL
By Lauren Gunderson
March 11-15, 19-22 and 26-29
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know. By the author of last season’s The Revolutionists!
JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
By Matt Pelfrey, John Ball
April 8-12, 15-19 and 23-26
Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey's adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series. It's 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially-tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives, and no clues.
THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
May 6-10, 14-17 and 21-24
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years. Over the course of six months, filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures, and the occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to jumpstart their new lives. Together, they discover lasting friendships and a renewed determination to live in the moment—and most importantly, realize it’s never too late to make new old friends.
LYSISTRATA
By Aristophanes
June 3-7, 11-14 and 18-21
First performed in 411 BC, this play is the comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. A bawdy yet thought provoking sexual farce!
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
By INDA CRAIG-GALVÁN
July 8-12, 16-19 and 23-26
After Sabrina Jackson’s 14 year old son is killed by a police officer in a wrongful shooting, she discovers a comic book that he had created, featuring the heroine Black Super Hero Magic Mama. Unable to face her grief, and resisting the pressure from all sides to become the public face of tragedy, she retreats into a fantasy world where she becomes the heroic figure that her son imagined, fighting off super villains like Lady Vulture and Human Hyena. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss? A stunning look at race, grief and the struggle to accept loss, complete with moments of fantasy and super heroic action.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
By Jack Thorne
Oct. 7-11, 15-18 and 22-25
In this adaptation of the 2008 Swedish horror film of the same name, Oskar is a bullied, lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighborhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time. An enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film.
*Dates subject to change
ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END
By Margaret Engel, Allison Engel
Feb. 5-9, 13-16 and 20-23
A comic look at one of our country’s most beloved voices, who captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” In this one woman show, discover the story behind America’s beloved humorist who championed women’s lives with wit that sprang from the most unexpected place of all – the truth.
THE BOOK Of WILL
By Lauren Gunderson
March 11-15, 19-22 and 26-29
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know. By the author of last season’s The Revolutionists!
JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
By Matt Pelfrey, John Ball
April 8-12, 15-19 and 23-26
Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey's adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series. It's 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially-tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives, and no clues.
THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
May 6-10, 14-17 and 21-24
In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years. Over the course of six months, filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures, and the occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to jumpstart their new lives. Together, they discover lasting friendships and a renewed determination to live in the moment—and most importantly, realize it’s never too late to make new old friends.
LYSISTRATA
By Aristophanes
June 3-7, 11-14 and 18-21
First performed in 411 BC, this play is the comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. A bawdy yet thought provoking sexual farce!
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
By INDA CRAIG-GALVÁN
July 8-12, 16-19 and 23-26
After Sabrina Jackson’s 14 year old son is killed by a police officer in a wrongful shooting, she discovers a comic book that he had created, featuring the heroine Black Super Hero Magic Mama. Unable to face her grief, and resisting the pressure from all sides to become the public face of tragedy, she retreats into a fantasy world where she becomes the heroic figure that her son imagined, fighting off super villains like Lady Vulture and Human Hyena. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss? A stunning look at race, grief and the struggle to accept loss, complete with moments of fantasy and super heroic action.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
By Jack Thorne
Oct. 7-11, 15-18 and 22-25
In this adaptation of the 2008 Swedish horror film of the same name, Oskar is a bullied, lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighborhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time. An enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film.
*Dates subject to change
