Iron Age Theatre Announces 2011-2012 Season

Iron Age Theatre has announced the productions set for its 2011-2012 season, to run September 3, 2011 through June 16, 2012.

The season will open with Howard Brenton’s Christie in Love, September 3-17, a one act journey into the disturbing world of the necrophiliac serial killer John Christie which will be staged at Eastern State Penitentiary. In September and October, Iron Age will present another controversial classic, Leroi Jones’ The Slave, an intense piece about racial revolution and the consequences of extremism, at Philadelphia Urban Theatre and The Centre Theater in Norristown. From November 4-17, an Iron Age and Centre Theater collaboration based on the true story of the hard scrabble of the Schuylkill County coal miners who created professional football Maroons. The Anthracite Gridiron by Ray Saraceni will play at the Centre Theater.

Iron Age Theatre’s first 2012 production will be Sam Shepard’s play about the dark side of the American dream Fool for Love, March 2-25, at the Centre Theater. Closing the season will be Iron Age’s annual presentation of the Junteenth Walking Dramatic African American Celebration of Emancipation Day, an hour-long dramatic
walking tour of the downtown region which celebrates emancipation day and the freeing of the slaves, on June 16th.

Throughout the season, the theater’s experimental branch The Special Operations Executive will be developing a crowd sourced Romeo and Juliet by gathering scenes from Romeo and Juliet performed across the world and editing the scenes together into a fully developed production of the play.

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