PlayMakers Repertory Company
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Doubt, A Parable (by John Patrick Shanley)
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
Doubt, A Parable is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded principal wrestles with conscience and uncertainty when faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues. This Tony Award winner by John Patrick Shanley is a riveting exploration of paranoia and suspicion that calls into question faith, justice and assumptions about the nature of truth. Shanley also received the Academy Award for his original script for the film Moonstruck.
[Doubt is] a topical, tight, funny, crowd-pleaser…” said The New York Times.
Topdog/Underdog (by Suzan-Lori Parks)
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
The story of African-American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, whose names were given to them as a joke by their father. Abandoned by their parents as teenagers, they fight for position and legitimacy in the world. Haunted by their past and their obsession with the con game three-card monte, they are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Variety called Topdog/Underdog “an utterly mesmerizing evening of theater…” and went on to say, “…the vitality, freshness and gritty lyricism of Parks’ writing are unlike anything to be heard on a Broadway stage.”
Amadeus (by Peter Shaffer)
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
The tale of Mozart and the court composer Salieri is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, brilliant examination of a man at war with his god. Salieri battles with a god who has condemned him to a life of mediocrity, while burdening him with the ability to recognize the genius of the upstart Mozart. Amadeus earned the coveted Tony Award for best play and went on to become a major motion picture that garnered eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Peter Shaffer.
Witness to an Execution (by Mike Wiley)
Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
In 2007-2008, UNC is taking a University-wide look at capital punishment with the recommended reading of Sister Helen Prejean’s The Death of Innocents. PlayMakers will participate in this exploration by commissioning a new work from one of the area’s most promising playwrights, Mike Wiley, who also performs the drama. Witness to an Execution is inspired by a series of surprisingly candid and chilling interviews that tell the story of death row in the infamous Texas prison system.