Richard Jay Simon Artistic Director		Season 2003-2004:   TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard September 18 – October 5, 2003 True West is a classic comedy that tells the story of two brothers: Austin, a Hollywood screenwriter, and Lee, a small-time criminal.  The play’s encounter between the brothers explores the duality of human personality, and our primal capacity for violence. DEATH DEFYING ACTS By David Mamet, Elaine May, Woody Allen November 6 – 23, 2003 Death Defying Acts is an evening of three one-act comedies.  Laughing in the face of life’s funny-sad crises is truly a death-defying act, and those shows give us the opportunity to do just that. David Mamet’s An Interview is an encounter between a lawyer of questionable ethics and a fastidious attendant at the gates of Hell.  Elaine May’s Hotline presents a neurotic suicide counselor on his first shift and a down-on-her luck prostitute who’s threatened to kill herself and then hung up.  Woody Allen’s Central Park West has Phyllis, a psychoanalyst who discovers her lawyer husband Sam is having an affair with her best friend Carol, a career shopper married to a manic-depressive writer.   TOP DOG / UNDERDOG (South Florida Premiere)  by Suzan-Lori Parks January 22 – February 8, 2004 A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity.  Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog is the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth – named by their father in a joke that will come to define their destiny – who share an all-consuming obsession with the street con game Three-Card Monte.  It’s a gritty comedy-drama described by critics as “hilarious and heartbreaking.”   GREATER TUNA By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard March 18 – April 4, 2004 Greater Tuna is the hilarious comedy about Texas’ third smallest town, where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.  The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two performers, making this satire on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna – men, women, children and animals.   proof by David Auburn May 6 – 23, 2004 The Tony award-winning story of Catherine, an enigmatic young woman, who faces the challenge of a genius father, an unexpected suitor and a mysterious mathematical proof only to realize that love is the most complex equation of all.
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