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2008/2009 Season of Plays

July 11/12/13 & 19/20
A HOME OF HER OWN
(IN THE END)

World Premier of Texas playwright Jane Manning's powerful drama of three Western women facing momentous decisions with the courage & fortitude of their heritage. Click here to learn more...

October 24/25/26 & November 1/2
DARK PATH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS

For Halloween/Dias de los Muertos, let masters of the macabre Edgar Allen Poe & Ambrose Bierce, & New Mexico's own unquiet spirits, lure you down the darkest paths of the soul.

December 5/6/7
THE TRAIL OF LONESOME TREE*

New Mexico, 1933, Christmas with the Aragons & the Trotters: a lone pine stands sentinel on the open plains; Cass & Manny are lost in a blizzard; & a mysterious stranger, who "rode the rails" to the end of the line, appears in Lost Wife Creek.

March 27/28/29 & April 4/5, 2009
A NEW YEAR IN LOST WIFE CREEK*

Thirteenth in the popular Lost Wife Creek series (each episode a complete play), set in 1930's/Depression-era New Mexico; reviewed as "Historic, hilarious, nostalgic..." The Aragons & the Trotters face 1937with full hearts, empty pockets - and hope.

*Each episode of the "Lost Wife Creek" is a complete play in itself.

All performances at Magdalena's Historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth St.
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Our thanks to:
Major funding by the Kerr Foundation, the McCune Foundation, USDA "community facilities", Socorro Electric Coop., & LFTC's "Friends of the Theatre."

Our Last Performance was...

You Might As Well Live!

February 15/16/17 & 23/24

DOROTHY PARKER's
Hilarious, Bittersweet Look at Love

"Razors pain you, Rivers are damp; Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp; Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give; Gas smells awful - You might as well live!"

From "A General Review of the Sex Situation", through the bittersweet "A Dream Lies Dead", and on to "Resume" (above), Parker's poems are presented not as recited poetry but as conversations exchanged at a sophisticated social gathering - transposed from Parker’s New York of the' ‘20's/'30's to the “Santa Fe scene.” Mood - and partners - change constantly in a kaleidoscope of variations on the game of love, the desperate silliness we all have known in its pursuit, and the unexpected healing of its fractures, as with the woman who chances to meet her last-year's grand passion and now can only muse, "I thought that he was tall."

The stories are performed in fast-paced, self-narrative style, combining theatrical action and characters with tongue-in-cheek story-telling, and reveal yearnings unsettlingly like our own. In "The Standard of Living", two under-paid office workers play the game, "What would you do if someone you didn't even know died and left you a million dollars?", while the little heroine of "Glory in the Daytime" ventures into the decadent world of the Arts to find Romance. An over-enthusiastic suitor drags his hapless partner through "The Waltz", as she mutters, "What can you say when a man asks you to dance with him? ‘I'll see you in hell first'?"

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), critic, playwright, author of several volumes of poems (ENOUGH ROPE, DEATH AND TAXES) and short stories (LAMENTS FOR THE LIVING, HERE LIES), has been called "one of the wittiest people in the world, and one of the saddest."

We're all familiar with "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", and perhaps with some of her other pithy comments: "One more drink and I'll be under the host", or - reviewing a play - "Katherine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." Parker's stories and poems cover a much wider range, presenting the beauty and heartache of life and love and then ambushing us with wit, irony, and devastating characterization - a blend of acid humour and pathos that lingers like the taste of green apples: sweet-sour and unforgettable.

Actors in YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE! were Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, and Kathleen White, all of Magdalena. Rita Broaddus, also of Magdalena, handled lighting and sound. Adaptation of Parker’s work is by Todd, as is play direction.

This project was funded in part by the Kerr Foundation of Oklahoma, the McCune Foundation of Santa Fe, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC’s “Friends of the Theatre.” and leading light of the Algonquin Round Table (meeting place of NYC's literary elite, 1920's-30's)

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