Stages Set for Dramas, Farces in New Season
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Alternative Repertory Theatre in Santa Ana will offer an eclectic, five-play schedule for its tenth anniversary season, which starts in the fall:
* Oct. 5-Nov. 17: “Medea,” by Euripedes. An ancient Greek tragedy.
* Dec. 7-22: “Our Lady of the Tortilla,” by Luis Santiero. A Hispanic comedy.
* Jan. 25-March 9: “A Delicate Balance,” by Edward Albee. A domestic drama (currently enjoying a successful revival on Broadway).
* March 29-April 20: “A Portrait of a Nude,” by Laura Shamas. Described as a play about art and censorship.
* May 17, 1997-June 29: “A Flea in Her Ear,” by Georges Feydeau. A French farce.
The storefront company, founded in 1987, also announced that it will raise the price of single tickets for Saturday performances to $18 (from $16); Friday and Sunday tickets will stay at $16. Thursday performances will be eliminated. But the run of each production will be extended from six to seven weeks.
Information and subscriptions: (714) 836-7582.
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South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa has filled three more slots in its 1996-97 schedule.
Added to SCR’s Mainstage season: John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation” (Oct. 11-Nov. 17), which premiered in New York in 1990 and later was adapted to the screen. The Mainstage season will conclude with “How the Other Half Loves” (May 23-June 29, 1997), a British sex farce from 1969, by Alan Ayckbourn, whose plays in recent years have become an SCR staple.
The Second Stage season will end with a revival of Harold Pinter’s 25-year-old British drama “Old Times” (April 15-May 18, 1997).
One play for the Second Stage remains to be announced.
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