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Wednesday, May 07 3:02 PM

KTC Announces 08/09 Season 11

Reefer Madness: The Musical
Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy
Regional Premiere - Opens September 20th
Fight the Menace! No, not Communism! We’re talking about the real evil: Marijuana. Hear the story of Jimmy Harper, an upstanding youth turned pot fiend. Watch how reefer sucks him into a world of orgies, weed freaks, and rock music!

militant language: a play with sand
Sean Christopher Lewis
World Premiere - Opens October 2008
Iraq. In the midst of a rebuilding effort two American GI's find themselves covered in blood amongst oil drums and steel girders. A boy from the neighboring town has gone missing and the sand that's begun to rain from the heavens is starting to pile up. A tale of war- the one's we enact everyday, the one's we forget and the one's we can only begin to imagine in our minds.

Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl
Regional Premiere - Opens November 2008
Pulitzer Prize nominee and MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship winner Sarah Ruhl enchanted Playhouse in the Park’s audiences in 2005 with her heartwarming play, The Clean House. Eurydice, a modern tale of loss and love, is the classic myth of Orpheus retold from the heroine’s point of view, abounding with surprising plot twists and quirky humor.

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant
Kyle Jarrow
Regional Premiere - Opens December 2008
This holiday season, a jubilant cast of children celebrate the controversial Church of Scientology in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored backdrop of a traditional nativity play. Avant-garde performance art and children's theater meet in one of the funniest and most bewildering holiday shows you will ever see.

I Love You Because
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham
Regional Premiere - Opens January 2008
Set in New York City, this musical comedy follows Austin Bennet, a young greeting card writer, whose life is turned upside down when he finds his girlfriend with another man. It's a comedy that explores the rules and nuances of dating and reminds us that true romance is learning how to love someone, not in spite of their differences, but because of them.

Mr. Marmalade
Noah Haidle
Regional Premiere - Opens February 2009
Four-year-old Lucy wants to have tea with her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade. But Mr. Marmalade is too busy at the office and with his darker pastimes. Enter five-year-old Larry, the youngest suicide attempt in the history of New Jersey, plus the babysitter, a talking cactus, and Mr. Marmalade's personal assistant, a much put-upon man who can sing like an angel. A sly, darkly comic look at the power of imagination.

Vigils
Noah Haidle
Regional Premiere - Opens March 2009
Two years after a fireman died trying to save a baby from a burning home, his widow is clinging to the past-- literally. She has trapped her husband's soul in a box, and his body is wandering around aimlessly, ricocheting from one memory to the next, as body and soul try to come to terms with their actions during his life. When a handsome wooer arrives on the scene, the widow must decide between the past she knows and a future that she can only imagine.

Skin Tight
Gary Henderson
Regional Premiere - Opens Summer 2009
Tom and Elizabeth relive their lives spent on a South Island New Zealand farm with an intensity that is akin to the numbing shock of icy water. Their love envelops them like a second skin. Elizabeth is dying, and now is the time of reckoning for her and Tom - their last opportunity to relive and share their most intimate secrets, their greatest passions, joys and

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