People’s Light & Theatre has announced the productions set for its 2011-2012 season.
Kira Obolensky’s The Return of Don Quixote, in which Don Quixote’s respectable retirement is turned upside down when Sancho Panza shows up with an unauthorized biography of the Don’s life, will play from September 21 – October 16. Treasure Island: A Musical Panto by Kathryn Petersen, November 16 – January 8, is a Poop Deck Panto Party with Mother Hawkins, Long John Silver, and more singing, dancing, staggering, and swimming their way through a few of the Seven Seas.
The first production of 2012 will be Fallow, a world premier by Kenneth Lin, January 11 – February 5. Upon discovering a cache of unsent letters, Elizabeth Hayes travels to California on a quest to understand her son Aaron’s murder. John Steinbeck’s heart-wrenching tale of George and Lennie, an unlikely pair of migrant workers who dream of purchasing a piece of land to farm and call their own, Of Mice and Men, will be performed February 15 – March 25. In Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will, May 30 – June 24, Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway reflects on her life and marriage to the famous poet as she prepares to read his last wishes. From July 18 – August 19 will be the world premiere of Bruce Graham’s Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown, a play set in Nebraska in the 1920s during the era of prohibition.
Bruce Graham’s The Philly Fan will be presented as a season add-on, and the PNC Arts Alive Family Discovery Series will include Treasure Island as well as Shipwrecked! An Entertainment–The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself), March 22 – April 15, by Donald Margulies and A Wrinkle in Time, April 26 – May 20, adapted by John Glore.
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