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A Man’s a Man
By Bertolt Brecht
English Version by Eric Bentley
Music by Arnold Black
Directed by Amy Wagner
Music Direction by Ellen Mandel
November 16, 20, & 21, 2010
TUES @ 7:30pm; SAT & SUN @ 3pm
WITH LIVE MUSIC

Before The Bourne Identity or The Manchurian Candidate, Brecht’s parable, set in 1920s British Colonial India, witnesses a young man transformed by His Majesty’s army into the perfect soldier, his thoughts and fate controlled as his mind is dismantled and reassembled like a machine.

Silent Partners
By Charles Marowitz
Based on The Brecht Memoir by Eric Bentley
Directed by Scott Shattuck
February 22, 26, & 27, 2011
TUES @ 7:30pm; SAT & SUN @ 3pm

In 1942, young English expat Eric Bentley becomes translator to Bertolt Brecht, who is living in exile, seeking to spread his fame in America. But Bentley strives to make his own theatrical mark. During their collaboration, they hide their true motives and suppress grievances, until a bitter meeting, years later.

  Mother Courage and Her Children
By Bertolt Brecht
English Version by Eric Bentley
Music Composed by Darius Milhaud
Music Arrangement by Ellen Mandel
Directed by Robert Hupp
May 10, 14 & 15, 2011
TUES @ 7:30pm; SAT & SUN @ 3pm
WITH LIVE MUSIC

Set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648, Brecht’s epic theatre classic follows the fortunes of "Mother Courage," a shrewd canteen woman with the Swedish Army, who is determined to make a profit from the war, no matter the cost.

CASTS INCLUDE: Brian A. Costello*, Ariel Estrada*, Amy Fitts*, Kelli Holsopple, LeeAnne Hutchison*, Rudy Lawless*, John Lenartz*, Dan Matisa*, Joseph J. Menino*, Grant Neale*, Laura Piquado*, David Regelmann*, Craig Smith*, Elise Stone*, Michael Surabian, Josh Tyson*, & Anthony Willis, Jr.*

*denotes member of Actors' Equity Association