PRIME at Nine!
Coming in the Fall
The Classics!
First, the play that launched our PRIME Voices
A rebellious painter from a distinguished Boston family and an ebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring family form an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls of Mount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape to Paris aboard the QE2. How will they pull it off, with one going blind and the other having dementia?
Featuring: Featuring: Katherine Ferrand*, Candace Barrett Birk*, Raye Birk*, Adlyn Carreras*, Bob Beverage*, Jonathan Feld and Elizabeth Desotelle*
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association
And as families gather around the table…
Written in 1934 and set in 1908 (The Gilded Age), this shenanigan-filled drama sees three middle-class Yorkshire couples smugly toasting their silver wedding anniversaries. Monied and mannered, their unravelling begins with the discovery that a mistake occurred 25 years ago. None of them are married after all! JB Priestley’s glorious pot shot at marital complacency in pre-First World War Bradford proves to be a tonic at a time of year where, for better or for worse, many people are forced to play happy families.” - Rachel Halliburton, theartsdesk.com
And for a bit of holiday cheer…
Set in 1925. Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country the eccentricities of the four members of the Bliss family become heightened during a weekend, when each of them invites a guest over without consulting other members. The farce and comedy then come to the fore, as the family tries to resolve its internal disputes in the midst of their guests. The Bliss family lives up to its name as the “quiet weekend” comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale worthy of Feydeau. HAY FEVER has been described as; ‘A comedy of appalling manners’, ‘A sparkling piece of theatrical nonsense’, ‘A delightfully dysfunctional family comedy’.