Season 5 (2022-2023)
Stories of Relationships: It’s Complicated
Relationships, am I right? Whether they be work relationships, romantic relationships, familial relationships, or friendships, relationships are complicated. There are always highs and lows. We aren’t always clear about what role we play, the impact we have on others, the intimacy we share, or the power we hold This season we selected shows that will invite us to examine our existing relationships, plan for the types of relationships we want, and most importantly, to appreciate the ones that make us feel good and learn from the ones that don’t.
Driving Ms. Daisy
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice.
by Alfred Uhrey
Directed by Paula Scheider
September 15-25, 2022
Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Terminus
This is the story of Eller–a progressive white matriarch–and her mixed-race grandson, Jaybo, who live together down by the railroad tracks in rural Georgia. When Eller’s mind begins to fade, her violent past in the segregated South haunts her from the very walls of the old family home. And as she descends terrifyingly closer toward a horrifying truth, Jaybo’s capacity to love his grandmother is put to the test.
By Gabriel Jason Dean
Directed by Dionne Lambert
February 2-12, 2023
Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center
I and You
One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline’s door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn’t been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together. I and You is an ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness.
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by TBA
April 6-16, 2023
306 S. Phoenix – World Stage Theatre Company
Some Girl(s)
Your career as a writer is blossoming, and your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side―so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you’re a man, it’s probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man’s odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (whom he’s already broken up with). Some Girl(s) is from Neil Labute, American theater’s great agent provocateur. In grand LaBute fashion, this outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself.