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1999-2000 Season

1999-2000 Season

Mrs. Warren’s Profession
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Michael Bloom
Sept. 10 — Oct. 10, 1999
The Huntington Theatre

A powerful, high-spirited comedy, Mrs. Warren’s Profession centers on Vivie Warren, a very smart and practical modern young woman, and her mother who has never shared with her daughter the secret that she has earned the money to pay for her comfortable upbringing in the world’s oldest profession. This provocative, passionate, and witty classic, featuring a stimulating battle of ideas about women’s opportunities and society’s hypocrisy about money and respectability, shows a great writer just as he was discovering his unique voice.

The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O’Connor
Adapted for the stage and directed by Eric Simonson
Oct. 22 — Nov. 21, 1999
The Huntington Theatre

The Huntington presents the world premiere of a specially-commissioned adaptation of this classic Boston political novel. Frank Skeffington is a veteran politician — a gifted orator and a master crowd psychologist — familiar with big-city unions, ethnic interest groups, media personalities, and vengeance-thirsty enemies. It’s 1955, and the 73-year-old lion and his cigar-chomping cronies are in the midst of his final election campaign, confident of another victory — until his enemies conspire to groom a cardboard candidate to oppose him with a new strategy: television.

Based on the life of legendary four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley, one of the most colorful big-city bosses of the 20th century.

Sisters Matsumoto
by Philip Kan Gotanda
Directed by Sharon Ott
Dec. 31, 1999 — Jan. 30, 2000
The Huntington Theatre

In the autumn of 1945, three proud daughters of a wealthy California farm family return to their childhood home after being released from one of the camps where 120,000 Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II under Executive Order 9066. But the attitudes expressed by the war and the death of their father have shattered the Matsumotos’ faith in the American dream. When a secret about their inheritance is revealed, the sisters must decide how to rebuild their lives in their beloved country that has betrayed them.

Mary Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller
Translated by Michael Feingold
Directed by Carey Perloff
March 10 — April 9, 2000
The Huntington Theatre

Amid the political and religious turbulences of the 16th century, two mighty queens — Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots — clash in one of the greatest dramas of English history ever written. A titanic battle of pride and power.

King Hedley II
by August Wilson
Directed by Marion Isaac McClinton
May 19 — June 18, 2000
The Huntington Theatre

August Wilson‘s epic new tale is set in the 1980s — when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Don’t miss this East Coast premiere of the latest in Wilson’s cycle of plays portraying the African-American experience through each decade of the 20th century.