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Current Shows - Critics Corner - Reviews of 2008 Preformances |
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Monomoy Theatre |
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The Ohio University Players in Residence since 1958 |
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Guys and Dolls June 24—July 5, 2008 |
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The American Classic - Guys and Dolls “A musical Fable of Broadway” A Tony Winner Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows |
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Monday—Saturday evenings 8 pm $30.00 Thursday and Saturday Matinees 2pm $24.00 |
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Monomoy Theatre open the 2008 season with |
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a liberal adaptation of Moliere's ''Les Fourberies de Scapin,'' Written by Jim Dale and Frank Dunlop Performed in a zany commedia dell'arte style. |
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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''Scapino,'' July 8— July 12, 2008 |
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Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Dale have heightened Moliere’s comedy with slapstick and burlesque. And although “Scapino” is not a musical, it is punctuated with songs, none of which appear to bear much relation to the action. |
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The play takes place in contemporary Naples, Italy, where the leading character, Scapino, devises a complex plot to help two pairs of lovers against parental opposition that, it turns out, does not exist. Scapino is a rapscallion, a fast-talking, quick-thinking scamp who cleverly manipulates and cajoles everyone into doing what Scapino intends them to do. |
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The Matchmaker July 15— July 19, 2008 |
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Written by Thornton Wilder Directed by Malcolm Morrison |
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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Doubt July 22— July 26, 2008 |
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In this case, the uncertainty revolves around a possibly pedophiliac priest in a Catholic school in 1964, long before a number of men of the cloth were exposed as rapacious sexual deviants. Shanley's script is a marvel, weaving intriguing sermonettes into the mystery story, but the performances lack the subtlety necessary to keep doubt alive. Almost-elderly Sister Aloysius, the principal of St. Nicholas in the Bronx, is a starchy woman who has fixed ideas about everything from ballpoint pens (hates 'em) to art and dance (hates 'em). Much more easygoing is Father Flynn, a younger man whose personal charisma and belief in a more accessible church the principal finds abhorrent. But when there are murmurs about what Father Flynn might be doing with an eighth-grade boy — the school's lone black student — Sister Aloysius seeks to uncover the truth. She is aided in her task, somewhat involuntarily, by rookie Sister James. |
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A moving play of religion, morality and authority, featuring Monomoy favorite and Broadway actress, Darrie Lawrence from the National Company of Doubt. Written by By John Patrick Shanley
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum July 31—Aug 9 |
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Thursday—Saturday July 31—Aug 2 8:00PM $25.00 Monday—Saturday August 4—9 8:00PM $25.00 Thursday Matinee August 7 2:00PM $20.00 |
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The Front Page August 12—16 |
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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By Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur “Gorgeously melodramatic… one of the funniest and most exciting of American plays”, NY Daily News
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds August19—23 |
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By Paul Zindel Nora Chester and Julie Harris join the Monomoy Company in the play the NY Times calls “one of the lucky blooms…it is beautiful.”
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor August 26—30 |
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Tuesday—Saturday 8:00PM $23.00 Thursday Matinee 2:00PM $18.00 |
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By William Shakespeare Sir John Falstaff and his crew cause havoc in this uproarious Shakespeare comedy.
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The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. |
