Our 2017-2018 season has been chosen!
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FALL
An Evening of Horror and Suspense in the Old-Time Radio Tradition
October 21, 2017 at Augustana Lutheran Church
Directed by Shonte Wesson
Auditions: September 17, 4-7pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Blackstone)
The HPCP continues its annual Halloween tradition with another anthology of tales of HORROR…and suspense! Players perform spine-tingling radio plays and adaptations of classic spooky tales, accompanied by live sound effects. An Evening of Horror and Suspense is a great way to get involved with the HPCP.
Rashomon by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin, based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Directed by Bill Hohnke
November 10-12 & 17-19, 2017
Auditions: September 10 (2-5pm) & September 11 (6-9pm) at Augustana Lutheran Church
The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory versions of what happened are reenacted at the trial by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband who speaks through a medium. It’s a powerful exploration of the meaning of truth.
WINTER
The Strange Undoing of Prudentia Hart by David Grieg
Directed by Renata McAdams
Auditions: January 7, 2018 (4-7pm), January 8, 2018 (6-pm) at Augustana Lutheran Church.
Take the strangest supernatural storytelling you’ve ever heard, add some Scottish border ballads, then mix in a few devilish encounters—and you have got National Theatre of Scotland’s inventive, rollicking tale of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Uptight academic Prudencia’s dream-like journey of self-discovery is a Faustian tale, that unfolds among and around the audience in this music-filled romp of rhyming couplets and wild karaoke.
SPRING
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin
Directed by Laura MacGregor
Auditions TBD
Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award, this madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre – the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they’re whisked through a maelstrom of “good ideas” that offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters’ need to have life’s deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains, and absurdities of “putting on a play” at the turn of the century.
SUMMER
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Directed by Corinna Christman
Auditions TBD
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