Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Presents 

The 2010-11 Season: Private Lives, Public Lies

(Pictured: David Darlow, Greg Matthew Anderson, Annabel Armour, Nick Sandys, James Bohnen, Linda Gillum, Shawn Douglass, photo by Johnny Knight)

Night and Day
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by James Bohnen
September 22 - October 31, 2010

Set in a fictional Africa that feels like a 1950s Hollywood film, competing British war reporters descend on the household of an African mine owner and his wife, attempting to crack open a story on the country’s erupting civil war.  Night and Day is a bracing and heady cocktail of political thriller, romance and Shavian argument on the notion of a free press.  Stoppard both attacks the triviality of the free press for exposing the personal lives of public figures to sell papers, and elevates its vital importance in uncovering political truth.

The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Shawn Douglass
November 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, charming bachelors John Worthing and Algernon Moncrief lead double lives in order to pursue two proper young ladies, while assiduously avoiding less appealing social obligations. When they are caught in their public lies, the result is one of the cleverest plays of the past century. Wilde has much to say about the shallowness of English life, but his criticisms are highly polished gems delivered with the sting of laughter.

The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee
Directed by James Bohnen
March 30 – May 8, 2011

Edward Albee, who has spent his long career pushing us to question our assumptions about the way we live, won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play for The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Architect and family man Martin is at the pinnacle of his career—at age 50 he has been awarded a major commission and prestigious award—but in the midst of this success Martin is coming undone, because of a terrible secret. Albee asks us to stare into the mirror and decide where the limit of our acceptance lies for a deeply loved partner who has pushed past every boundary.