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Hole in the Wall’s 2007-2008 Season Offers Something for Everyone

Experience community theater with a professional edge.  New Britain’s Hole in the Wall Theater, winner of this year’s Hartford Advocate “Best of” award for community theater, announces a 2007-2008 season guaranteed to pique every taste.  The plays range from provocative drama to intimate musical, from murder mystery to movie satire, and from complex love to TV nostalgia. 

The season opens September 14 with Extremities by William Mastrosimone, a searing look at how a woman confronted by a rapist turns the tables on him and faces the violence in herself.  Turned into a successful film in the early 1980’s, Mastrosimone’s drama explores the chilling boundaries of truth and violence. This play is a visceral examination of the primal human forces within us all. Extremities runs through October 13.

The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown runs November 16 through December 15.  The contemporary song-cycle chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up . . . or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it, as each character travels forward or away from the other through different moments in time.

Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days runs January 18 through February 16, 2008.  When a tornado kills Walt Bates, Dublin, Missouri’s leading citizen, disturbing questions surface.  Why was Walt hunting four months out of season?  What burned his face so badly when his shotgun remains unfired?  Wilson’s play mixes lust, lies, and greed to create a noir version of Our Town.

The fourth offering, Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedyby Kate Wilkinson and Alana McNair, combines modern parody with classical theater as characters Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Ann Archer romp with a Greek chorus.  This show proclaims, “I will not be ignored!” and runs from March 14 through April 12.

The season continues with Edward Albee’s The Goat: or Who Is Sylvia?  This Tony award-winning play probes the taboos surrounding sexuality in our society as it examines forbidden love in its ultimate form. The Goat runs from May 9 through June 7.

Next summer, HITW presents Twilight Zone: Of Shadows and Substance, a theatrical treatment of The Twilight Zone.  Join us for an evening of sci-fi fun while we run through “a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind,” presenting four of the venerable show’s most memorable episodes, July 11 through August 9.

Exciting theater lives year-round at Hole in the Wall’s climate-controlled New Britain space.  Call 860-229-3049 for reservations starting three weeks prior to each production. Be a part of Hole in the Wall – the Community Theater with a Professional Edge.            

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