Constellation Theatre Company, which has established a reputation for performing the sublime epics of our culture, will, in its 13th season, aspire to capture the ridiculous — and a little bit of the sublime as well.
Are you considering a plant based diet? Well, meet Seymour, the plant who is considering a diet based on you, and all your neighbors. Little Shop of Horrors has it all — unrequited love, an insane dentist, a talking, singing carnivorous plant, labor-management problems (solved by a talking, singing carnivorous plant) and, yes, singing. DCTS’ Jeff Walker, in this review, “one of the most successful little musicals of the last 30 years. Part homage to cheesy sci-fi and part powerhouse musical comedy…” Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, directed by Nick Martin, from October 17 to November 24, 2019.
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Take an Alfred Hitchcock movie about international espionage, mistaken identity and murder — a movie with 150 characters that involves a chase all over Britain — and write it for the stage with, oh, four actors. You’ve got The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of Hitchcock’s film, which was itself an adaptation of John Buchan’s novel. A bored Canadian expatriate in England suddenly finds himself the unwilling recipient of a secret map — and the target of murderous Nazis and the British police. “The comedy is of the screwball variety veined with a dash of dry British humor and the pacing is as brisk as a police chase,” says DCTS’ Jayne Blanchard in this review. Nick Olcott will direct this show, which will run from February 6 to March 8 of next year.
Constellation goes back to the sublime side for its final production — Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Eurydice. In the classic tale about Eurydice’s death and voyage to the underworld, her husband follows in a bold attempt to return her to the living. In Ruhl’s version, Eurydice’s reunion with her father in Hades is at least as important. “This [the Greek legend of Eurydice], thus, is a legend about obedience…Sarah Ruhl, in one of her best plays ever, turns the legend inside out, and in so doing makes it a story about love,” DCTS said in this review. From May 7 to June 7, 2020; Cara Gabriel will direct.
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