Summary
The new year begins with [Arthur Miller]'s powerhouse drama The Price (Jan. 27-Feb. 14). Two estranged brothers, one a successful doctor, the other a cop, meet to sell off the property of their late father. The "price" of the title refers initially to what an antiques dealer will offer for the overstuffed inventory and comes to define what each brother has paid for choices made and resentments engendered. Less often seen than Miller's big three, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and All My Sons, The Price still contains some of the master's finest work. [Timothy Bond] directs this co-production with Rochester's GeVa Theatre.
Next comes David Catlin's Lookingglass Alice (Feb. 24-March 14). In Chicago where this adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has run in sold-out houses for more than 3½ years, the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: "A free-wheeling, circus-loving, theatrical riff on [Lewis Carroll]'s classic yarns that a parent cannot help but love." Aerial acrobatics and astonishing physicality bring alive Alice, the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The show will be co-produced with Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre of Atlanta and Actors' Theatre of Louisville.Wrapping the season is a reprise of [August Wilson]'s Fences (May 5-23). The tragedy of a Pittsburgh garbage man whose bitterness threatens to poison his son's future, it's generally regarded as Wilson's greatest play and arguably the most admired of all African-American dramas. Fences, which continues Bond's pledge to produce all of Wilson's Pittsburgh dramas, is set in 1957, the middle of the cycle. Previously produced to much acclaim by Syracuse Stage in March 1991, the 2010 version will be co-produced with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, one of the nation's leading regional companies.See the full content of this document
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Bond Rally at Syracuse Stage
Think of it as the brand-name season. Syracuse Stage's proposed 2009-2010 lineup features works by Arthur Miller and August Wilson that would be on any critic's list of the top 50 American dramas of the last 50 years. Or maybe it should be a season for shoehorning brand names into new int...
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