Kitchen Dog Theater reveals 2008-2009 season

by PegNews wire

Kitchen Dog Theater proudly announces an incredible new lineup for its 2008-2009 season. The eighteenth season is a bold and provocative season that will challenge and entertain you, and never once ask you to check your brain at the door.

The brand new season promises to be one of the best yet, truly inviting their audiences, as the KDT mission statement declares, "to be provoked, challenged, and amazed". Five extraordinary productions (ALL of which will be premieres for the region!!), SEVEN premiere staged readings, the awesome PUP Fest (youth playwriting workshop), and the return of the best boogie down/bottoms up FUNdraiser in Dallas -- the HOOCH & POOCH Gala!!!

Season tickets are already available online and only cost $100 for 5 plays and 12 Staged Readings for ANY performance of a play you want to attend. Benefits include advance seating, free single-use guest pass, discounts to admission and McKinney Avenue Contemporary Events, opening night cast parties, etc.

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. From September 12 - October 11, 2008. Winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and the Olivier Award. "Energizing . . . a blindingly bright black comedy." - The New York Times. The play: In a totalitarian state, a writer is interrogated about the similarities between his work and the murders of several children. An unflinching, darkly funny examination of the very nature and purpose of art. The playwright: Irish writer Martin McDonagh's work has won numerous awards, including the Oliver and the Oscar. He is the only playwright since Shakespeare to boast four shows running concurrently in London's West End. Directed by Jonathan Taylor and Christina Vela. Featuring Cameron Cobb, Michael Federico, Ian Leson & Lee Trull.
The Goat, or Who is Silvia? by Edward Albee. From November 14 -December 13, 2008. Winner of the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best play of the year. "...as challenging-and ... as outrageously funny-as theater gets." - New York Post. The play: At the peak of his success, a prominent architect reveals he is in love with a goat. His family and friends do not understand. An unsettling analysis of who we are allowed to love and the limits of tolerance. The playwright: Edward Albee is one of America's most preeminent playwrights. In addition to Tonys and numerous other awards, he has won the Pulitzer Prize three times. His work includes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Zoo Story. Directed by Tim Johnson. Featuring Barry Nash.
Psychos Never Dream by Denis Johnson. From March 6 - April 4, 2009. Co-Production with Project X. [Denis Johnson is]... a revelator for this still new century." -- New York Times. The play: Ex-hippies shed all vestiges of idealism in the Idaho town that was once the site of a commune. A scathing satire on greed and murder. The playwright: Denis Johnson is an acclaimed playwright, poet and fiction writer. His works include Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke, which won the National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Directed by David Kennedy. Featuring Tina Parker & Raphael Parry.
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. From April 17 - May 16, 2009. Co-Production with SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. The play: Shakespeare's bloodiest play is transposed, for this production, to an ancient Mayan setting. The themes of revenge, justice and violence begetting violence remain shocking and relevant. The playwright: William Shakespeare, Elizabethan author of 38 surviving plays, as well as numerous poems, is widely considered the world's foremost dramatist. Most of his plays were originally staged between 1590 and 1613. Adapted by Leah Spillman & Lee Trull. Directed by Christopher Carlos. Featuring Joe Nemmers & Christina Vela.
Jihad Jones & The Kalashnikov Babes - Mainstage production at 2009 New Works Festival. By Yussef El Guindi. From May 29 - June 27, 2009. A National New Play Network World Premiere. The play: The winner of our national new play competition is a timely comedy about fame, fortune and compromise. Ashraf, an Arab-American actor, finally lands a role in a Hollywood blockbuster. The hitch: it's as the most stereotypically evil, fanatical Islamic terrorist ever. The playwright: Yussef El Guindi is the award-winning author of several produced plays, including Back of the Throat. Directed by Tina Parker. Featuring Christopher Carlos.
2009 New Works Festival - Staged Readings & PUP Fest. From June 6 - 21, 2009. The Festival also features seven staged readings of plays chosen from hundreds of submissions from across the country, as well as our annual PUP (Playwrights Under Progress) Fest, an afternoon of short plays written and performed by some of the Metroplex's finest youth talent, co-produced with Junior Players. All of the Festival 2009 events (including the fun after-parties) are FREE to KDT Season Ticket Holders!!