2010 / 2011 Season
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds By Paul Zindel
Aug. 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28,29 (29th is Sunday Matinee)
Winner of an Obie Award for best play of 1970, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play of the year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the play in the end celebrates the persistence of the human spirit despite very trying circumstances.
Greater Tuna By Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howard
October 8,9,15,16,22,23,29,30,31 (31st is Matinee)
Welcome to the slightly skewed world of Greater Tuna, Texas' third smallest town...where the Lions club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. Tony Award-nominated Joe Sears and co-creator Jaston Williams have received ovation upon ovation for their two plays, Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. They have performed at the White House and on Broadway captivating audiences with the play's humorous view of small-town life through the antics of two guys in wigs and dresses. Ennis Public Theatre is proud to be among the first in the region to present this hilarious view of Tuna, Texas! Ya’ll come see it!
Light Sensitive by Jim Goeghan
December 3,4,10,11,12,17,18,19,20 (19TH is Matinee & 20th is Monday evening performance)
This comedy from Jim Geoghan tells the story of two lost souls who meet in Hell's Kitchen and fall in love. Both seem unlikely candidates for romance. Tom Hanratty, once known as "the most dangerous cabdriver in New York City", has become reclusive and embittered after an accident left him blinded. He lives alone in a mess of an apartment, accepting help only from his longtime buddy, Lou D'Marco.
Edna Miles is also isolated from the rest of the world -- by her privileged upbringing, her overbearing father, and a slight disability of her own. Painfully shy, she has erected numerous barriers to protect herself from injury.
The two are brought together when Lou, in preparation for a romantic vacation in Vermont, enlists a volunteer reader -- Edna -- to take care of Tom during his absence. An epic battle of wills and wits ensues that proves, once and for all, that beauty is truly is in the eye of the beholder.
The Dixie Swim Club by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Pope and Jamie Wooten
February 4,5,11,12,18,19,25,26,27(27th is Matinee)
The Dixie Swim Club is the story of five unforgettable southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team. They set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of these weekends spanning thirty-three years. As their lives unfold, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. When fate throws a wrench into one of their lives, these friends, proving the enduring power of teamwork, rally ‘round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
Forever Plaid by Stuart Ross
April 15,16,22,23,29,30, May 6,7,8
Must dreams die just because the dreamers do? The answer in this musical comedy is a resounding “NO!” The Plaids, a musical group tragically killed before they were able to record their first album, returns from the afterlife for a second chance at stardom. The music is familiar, as is the group, which recalls clean-cut, close harmony guy groups of the 50s and early 60s like The Four Freshmen or The Lettermen.
A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams
June 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26
This landmark play earned the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. Its message has lost little meaning in the intervening years. It is a story of culture clash between Blanche Dubois, an attractive if fading Southern belle whose pretensions of lifestyle and virtue mask darker inner realities, and Stanley Kowalski, a member of the rising industrial-working class.