Richard Dresser’s The Last Days of Mickey and Jean Set for Merrimack Rep’s 2009-2010 Season

Richard Dresser’s The Last Days of Mickey and Jean will receive its world premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre next spring. The theater had previously announced that a play by Dresser would premiere in the March 18 – April 11 slot, but had not revealed its title. Last Days centers on an aging fugitive mobster.

Merrimack’s season begins with another world premiere: the Flying Karamazov Brothers’ brand new vaudevillian romp, Flings & Eros (September 10-October 4), which will be followed by Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer (October 15-November 8), about a card game with unusually high stakes.

Next up will be Heroes (November 19-December 13), by Gerald Sibleyras and adapted by Tom Stoppard, about three World War I veterans. John Kolvenbach’s Fabuloso (January 7-31) is about a couple living a quiet existence whose lives are interrupted by a long lost friend and his fiancée. Frank Higgins’ Black Pearl Sings! (February 11-March 7) is set in the Great Depression, and depicts the meeting between Susannah, who travels the country recording lost folk songs, and Pearl, an inmate in a Texas prison with a soulful voice and a wealth of African-American spirituals. The season will conclude with Robert Hewett’s The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (April 22-May 16), which tells the story of a woman who suspects her husband of cheating.

For more information, visit www.merrimackrep.org.