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2000-2001 Season

2000-2001 Season

Dead End
by Sidney Kingsley
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Sept. 8 — Oct. 8, 2000
The Huntington Theatre

For his first Huntington production, Artistic Director Nicholas Martin will revive this colorful and sprawling production, one of the hits of the 1997 Williamstown Theatre Festival season. At once funny and disturbing, this gritty melodrama draws a powerful portrait of class differences, as luxury apartments encroach upon a broken-down neighborhood. Dead End, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sidney Kingsley, had such an impact on the American audience when it debuted in 1935 that it sparked the social reform of tenement housing and the judicial system for juvenile delinquents.

A Fair Country
by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Oct. 27 — Nov. 26, 2000
The Huntington Theatre

Jon Robin Baitz, author of The Substance of Fire, is one of America’s most acclaimed young playwrights, telling stories that connect domestic tragedies to the world at large. In A Fair Country, the Burgess family, white Americans living in South Africa in 1977, struggle to keep their tenuous ties to each other in the face of emotional and political turmoil. Surrounded by violence and longing for escape, they find themselves becoming increasingly corrupted by the apartheid system they oppose. Enter the elder Burgess son, an idealistic and politically-minded Columbia journalism student, and family crisis erupts on a grand scale. Searing, powerful, and often bitingly funny.

Fully Committed
by Becky Mode
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Produced in association with Broadway in Boston / SFX Theatrical Group
Dec. 1 — Dec. 31, 2000
Wilbur Theatre

The funniest play in New York is this Off-Broadway smash with more than 40 characters and just one actor! Fully Committed takes place in the basement of Manhattan’s trendiest restaurant, a place where everyone wants a table for tonight. Mark Setlock, the acclaimed star of the New York production, will recreate this hilarious menagerie of Manhattanites on the make, and the Huntington’s own Nicholas Martin will reprise his inspired direction.

Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Dec. 29, 2000 — Jan. 28, 2001
Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre

Nicholas Martin reassembles his critically acclaimed Williamstown Theatre Festival production for the Huntington’s stage. Hedda Gabler is a powerful drama about a proud and complex woman searching for passion and meaning in her life. Trapped by boredom and social convention, Hedda embarks upon a destructive journey of manipulation, forever altering the lives of those around her.

Amphitryon
by Molière
Directed by Darko Tresnjak
March 9 — April 8, 2001
Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre

Molière is one of the theatre’s greatest comic geniuses, and with Amphitryon he turns his pen away from seventeenth-century France to explore a story from ancient Greece. Jupiter, the King of the gods, is in love again — this time with the beautiful and faithful Alcmena, wife of Amphitryon, general of the Thebans. As the victorious general is on his way home from battle, Jupiter disguises himself as Amphitryon in order to win Alcmena’s favors. The blend of high comedy and slapstick antics which follows unlocks a Pandora’s box of ideas about love, marriage, and power.

The Amen Corner
by James Baldwin
Directed by Chuck Smith
Produced in association with the Goodman Theater
May 18 — June 17, 2001
The Huntington Theatre

This rediscovered American masterpiece, written by the legendary African-American author James Baldwin, is a powerful drama filled with gospel music. Set in a small Harlem church, the play tells the story of Sister Margaret, the pastor, who faces problems within her family and her congregation when her estranged husband shows up at her door after a ten-year absence. This moving play examines issues of faith, family, and forgiveness, and is filled with music and language that will stir your soul.