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Our 2006-2007 Season *** Poorman's Theatre Festival A celebration of local playwrights Oct 12-15, 2006 at Club Glacier ** Killer Joe by Tracy Letts Directed By Dr. Leroy Clark Dates: Nov 30, Dec 1, 2, & 3 and Dec 7, 8, & 9 2006 at The Venue at The Anchor ** Closer by Patrick Marber Directed by Troy Dilport Dates: Feb 15,16,17, & Feb 22,23, & 24 @ 8pm, with Feb 18 @ 2pm at The Venue at The Anchor **
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OUR 2006-2007 SEASON THE
POORMAN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL "The
Wichita State Men's Scrapbooking Club" "The
French Condition or Perfect. Little. Piles."
Performances
at The Venue at The Anchor Killer Joe is hired by the greedy Smith family, a dim witted clan wanting to do away with mother to get her insurance money. Killer Joe decides to bed the Smith daughter as a retainer against his final payoff. Before it's over, nearly everyone is bloodied. "Set in Dallas, Killer Joe revels in its white trash stereotypes, and gives you permission to do the same; it's pulp fiction which has it both ways, deriving humor from dirty realism. It's slick, it's well constructed, it knows exactly where it's going." N.Y. Daily News.
Closer by
Partick Marber Winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. "CLOSER is a sad, savvy, often funny play that casts a steely, unblinking gaze at the world of relationships and lets you come to your own conclusions…CLOSER does not merely hold your attention; it burrows into you." —NY Magazine. Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry, a dermatologist, "meets" Dan in an internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can't seem to get closer.
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