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Sextet: An Evening Of One-Acts By Lanford Wilson
Directed by Ensemble Members
Thomas Jones, Kevin Scott & Steve Scott, and Cecilie Keenan, Jay Paul Skelton & Jeremy Wechsler
Summer 2005
The 2005 Season continues with a selection of Lanford Wilson's shortest plays spanning from his earliest days at
the hotbed of avant-garde theatre, Café Cino to the early 1990s. Join us for an evening of plays that show you
the development of a major playwright over three decades. Days Ahead portrays the fraught psyche
of a fastidious little man as he confronts the memory of an early love which he perceives as a dusty, crumbling
wall through which he must dig. The Madness of Lady Bright traces the mental breakdown of Lesley
Bright, an aging homosexual whose past returns to haunt him with the emptiness of the choices he made.
This is the Rill Speaking is a play of voices - a poetic, mosaic-style evocation of small town
life told through multiple voices which shift and blend from identity to identity becoming the original inspiration
behind The Rimers of Edritch. Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye is an explosively funny and ingenious
farce that deals with what might have been a seduction-but while she is all for it (despite her feeble protests)
he has eyes only for her telephone. And what he can't say to her face, floods out readily on the phone, with
hilarious and devastating results. The Moonshot Tape is an evocative and deeply revealing monodrama
which explores the "personal history" of a woman writer who makes it disturbingly evident that we are all the
product not only of our own drives and desires, but also of the experiences which others impose on us-often against
our wishes-and which sometimes burrow deep into our consciousness. Sextet is an imaginative and
haunting short play compromised of the thoughts and recollections of six characters, who sit at random,
answering each other's revelations with a quiet "yes." Out of the pattern of their memories, the interweaving
of their destinies, emerges a sense of their frailty, and humanity, and the disquieting vulnerability of life
itself- the original inspiration behind Wilon' later play, Seranading Louie.
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