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The Problem

The Problem, by A.R.Gurney.

Problem #1 - The Wife is pregnant

Problem #2 - The Husband is perturbed

And thus a train of dominoes is set off, exploring a seemingly unending sequence of problems surrounding The Wife and Husband, until it reaches it’s hilarious and unexpected climax.

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Alan Fehr Alan Fehr

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.

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Doubt: A Parable

“What do you do when you’re not sure?” So asks Father Flynn, the progressive and beloved priest at the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, in his sermon. It’s 1964, and things are changing, to the chagrin of rigid principal Sister Aloysius. However, when an unconscionable accusation is leveled against the Father, Sister Aloysius realizes that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. And as for the truth of the matter? As Father Flynn says, "Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.” In stunning prose, John Patrick Shanley delves into the murky shadows of moral certainty, his characters always balancing on the thin line between truth and consequences. Doubt: A Parable is an exquisite, potent drama that will raise questions and answer none, leaving the audience to grapple with the discomfort of their uncertainties.

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The Wild Guys

Four guys, with nothing in common except their gender, start off into the woods for a weekend "encounter session," of the kind popularized in the last decade or so by the poet Robert Bly, the bard of the "men's movement." Of course they get lost, and of course they confront their own fears and emotions and of course there's a virtually endless stream of jokes -- many of them pretty funny -- both about the men's movement and coming out of it. On the one hand, we're invited to laugh at the flood of cliches about what it means to be a man, and how men in our culture are so hard done by -- and, on the other hand, and at the same time, to laugh about things the men's movement finds appalling: emasculating women, a dehumanizing work culture, stereotyping of males.

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The Ladies Foursome

The day after their friend Catherine’s funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honour of their recently departed fourth. At the gold course they are joined by another woman, an old friend of Catherine’s they’d never met. Over the course of eighteen holes, secrets and confessions unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, and everything in between.

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