Theatrical Outfit is proud to announce our 2010-2011 Pulitzer Season!
This season includes the world premiere of an epic comedy, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole adapted for the stage by Tom Key; a riveting drama, The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote; and a heart stopping musical, Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, all from winners of the internationally coveted award, honoring excellence in literature. The authors of these soul-stirring works are all winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and now they are going to win your hearts!
A Confederacy of Dunces
August 11 – September 5, 2010
Like Shakespeare’s Falstaff, Ignatius Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces has the bombastic comic power to subvert reality and his madcap adventures in the 1960s French Quarter of New Orleans prove to be as laugh out loud hilarious as they are brilliantly revelatory of the human condition. It is a tumultuous story, filled with the truly rendered accents and dialects of New Orleans rebels. Two voices, however, dominate: a sharp-eyed omniscient narrator and the sometimes hapless and self-destructive Ignatius J. Reilly. Despite those tendencies, Reilly composes brilliant sketches of his adversaries and dramatizes a set of restrained values that contrasts dramatically with the world in which he moves, through various insignificant jobs and sometimes slapstick mishaps. These are dramatically played off against the equally untidy lives of a host of supporting characters, including his comically oppressed mother, a radicalized girlfriend who taunts him from New York, a strip-bar operator, a pants factory owner, and a Keystonian New Orleans policeman. Richard Garner, Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Georgia Shakespeare Festival, directs.
The Young Man from Atlanta
January 26 – February 20, 2011
Will Kidder of The Young Man from Atlanta evokes Arthur Miller’s iconic tragic hero, Willy Loman, as a 1950s Houston salesman who learns too late that his bargain with business success may have cost him his only son. As he and his wife struggle to understand the loss of their son, they are confronted about the true nature of their child’s identity when the young man of the title—his son’s roommate—arrives from Atlanta. The Young Man from Atlanta won the Pulitzer in 1994.Caroline, or Change
March 16 – April 10, 2011
Tony Kushner won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterpiece, Angels in America. With Caroline, or Change, he has created, with the same force of Sondheim’s immortal Mama Rose, the book and lyrics for Caroline Thibodeaux, a reluctant Louisiana laundry maid to an affluent Jewish family and mother to a daughter bound to ride the Civil Rights movement to a better life. Kushner’s character, fueled by the fabulous music of Jeanine Tesori, gives audiences a leading woman who can enthrall them with her cathartic and heroic defiance to injustice.A Christmas Memory
December 15 – 23, 2010
In addition to our season offerings, Theatrical Outfit will present a special holiday treat for 10 DAYS ONLY! Executive Artistic Director, Tom Key, presents his widely-cherished readers’ theatre version of Truman Capote’s beloved short story, A Christmas Memory. Narrated by seven-year-old Buddy, this semi-autobiographical tale of he and his older, unnamed cousin’s annual Christmas adventures is sure to be fun holiday fare for the entire family!
