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1982-1983 Season

1982-1983 SEASON

Night and Day
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Toby Roberston
Oct. 23 — Nov. 14, 1982
The Huntington Theatre

 

Tom Stoppard’s stimulating, funny play Night and Day is set in a fictional black African country, Kambawe, which is ruled by a leader not unlike Idi Amin. The nation is faced with a Soviet-backed revolution which quickly brings newsmen from around the world to cover the story. Using the characters Ruth; her huband, Geoffrey Carson, a mine owner; an Australian veteran reporter, Dick Wagner; and an idealistic young journalist, Jacob Milne, Stoppard pits the ideal of a Free Press against that of working-class solidarity. During the course of the play, each character is given an opportuniity to make his case heard as the revolution unfolds.

The Dining Room
by AR Gurney
Directed by Thomas Gruenewald
Nov. 27 — Dec. 19, 1982
The Huntington Theatre

 

A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical tour de force in which six (or more) performers portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the dying lifestyle of wealthy WASPdom, and the now neglected room which was once a vital center of family life.

Translations
by Brian Friel
Directed by Jacques Cartier
Jan. 8 — Jan. 30, 1983
The Huntington Theatre

 

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.

Time and the Conways
by JB Priestley
Directed by Elinor Renfield
April 23 — May 14, 1983
The Huntington Theatre

 

Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne’s “Theory Of Time” through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937. The play works on the level of a universal human tragedy and a powerful portrait of the history of Britain between the Wars. Priestley uses Dunne’s theory of time to show how human beings experience loss, failure and the death of their dreams but also how, if they could experience reality in its transcendent nature, they might find a way out.

The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Toby Robertson
May 28 — June 19, 1983
The Huntington Theatre

 

Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There, he encounters the fiery Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. Their honeymoon becomes a humorous battle of wit and insult with Kate as determined to maintain her independence as Petruchio is to “tame” her. When the embattled couple returns to Padua, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that his is the most obedient of wives. But in reality, perhaps the shrewish Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.