Little Theatre of Fall River Twinbill
Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark
and
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark
Written by Joseph Wallace
Produced by special arrangement with Baker’s Plays Inc
Something's Rotten is a farcical spoof of Hamlet. The Bard's most famous work is converted into a farce so hysterical, you'll never read the classic the same way again. Here is an excerpt from Hamlet's famous soliloquy, To be, or not to be(HE has forgotten his lines.) uh, nobler stuff and arrows with slingsbears shall not eat bodkins, uh, or fardelsto die, to sleepto not snorebut dream wealthily in PaduaHark! What light on yonder window breaks? It is the yeast, and in the north, the cake riseth! Also, because Wallace stays so close to the original plot, this play makes an excellent teaching vehicle as well as an unforgettable evening of theatre.
Sister Mary Ignatius
Explains It All for You
Written by Christopher Durang
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service,
Inc.
Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Thomas, can quote the Ten Commandments on cue, and each time he does so Sister Mary rewards him with a cookie. But when several of her former students turn up the picture darkens, along with Sister Mary's indignation. One of them is the happy mother of an illegitimate child; another a contented homosexual; still another has had two abortions—the first after having been raped on the night of her mother's death; while another student, now an alcoholic, contemplates suicide. Their stories are disturbing—but also very funny—and it is quickly apparent that one thing they all have in common is their loathing for Sister Mary and the unyielding dogma which she forced on them in their formative years. In the end there is mayhem and bloodshed but, with this, the unsettling feeling that, amid the laughter, some devastating truths have been told.
January 21 & 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm
January 22, 23, 29 & 30, 2010 at 8:00 pm
January 24 & 31, 2010 at 2:00 pm