BAY VILLAGE COMMUNITY THEATER
2018 – 2019 SEASON
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
2019 Spring Show: To Gillian, on Her 37th Birthday
Written by Michael Brady
Directed by Tim Peebles
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with her “ghost” during walks on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-law Paul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world for her sake.
2019 Fall Show: The Ladies Foursome
Written by Norm Foster
Director: TBA
The day after their friend Catherine’s funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honor of their recently departed fourth. At the gold course they are joined by another woman, an old friend of Catherine’s they’d never met. Over the course of eighteen holes, secrets and confessions unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, and everything in between.
Norm Foster has been called the Canadian Neil Simon. His plays have been described as “Humor with a Heart”.
All the World’s a Stage[d Reading] Series
November: George Bernard Shaw’s Overruled
November 17, 18 – O’Neill’s Healthcare, Mojo’s Coffee and More
Overruled (1912) is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it."[1] The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.
December: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol adapted by Preston Postle
December 2, 8, 9 – O’Neill’s Healthcare, Bay Village Community House, BAYarts, The Knickerbocker
Dickens’ classic Christmas story, featuring Ebeneezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and several ghosts thrown in for good measure.
February, 2019: Surpressed Desires, by Susan Glaspell
February 16, 17 – O’Neill’s Healthcare, Mojo’s Coffee and More
Only a few one-act plays have attained and maintained the level of popularity of this popular and highly amusing travesty about misapplied psychology by one of the founders of the famed Provincetown Playhouse. Henrietta's obsession with psychoanalysis leads to a completely off-the-wall interpretation of a dream and very nearly to divorce before the absurdity of the situation is realized.