TAG - The Actors' Group 2010-2011 Season

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Announcing TAG's 2010 - 2011 Season!
Season Tickets are now available.
You have Two Great Choices
6 Great shows for One Great Price - $88
or
6 Great Shows and One Great Festival - $100
See the Play Festival page for more information on the TAG Young Playwrights Festival

Please note: There has been a change in our line-up
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August 27 - September 19, 2010
DUETS - Four sets of characters, four crucial moments;

Jonathon and Wendy are on a blind date and hoping to get it right this time even though theyxve never got it right before; Barrie is not really interested in women but Janet sees that as no reason to stop trying; Shelley and Bobby have decided to holiday in Spain to finalise their divorce whilst drowning in cocktails; Angela is marrying for the third time to the dismay of brother Toby and amidst a barrage of bad omens and a dress resembling a parachute.

A gloriously funny examination of the chaotic world of love, relationships and why the grass is never greener. Duets is an hilarious tribute to the strength and madness of the human heart.

If you like Neil Simon x youxll love this!

"This bittersweet quick-change comedy is streaked with pathos and is effortlessly charming, with each character sketched with verve and skill" - Sydney Morning Herald

"Compelling, dense, funny and varied...the language is always beautifully rendered, character-specific, and emotionally satisfying...Duets is a play to be treasured!" - Atlanta Theater Review

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Ghosts - a drama by Henrik Ibsen
translated and directed by Brad Powell
October 22 -November 14, 2010

In 1881 Ibsen rocked the literary and theatrical worlds with the publication of Ghosts, a play so controversial in its time that it was called "one of the filthiest things ever written in Scandanavia." Once the uproar had died down, audiences proved far more receptive to Ghosts than the literati had initially been. While its subjects of promiscuity, incest and sexually transmitted disease no longer arouse the feverish denunciations of Ibsen's time, their treatment here retains the power that has made the play a masterpiece of Western literature. Ghosts has never seemed more profoundly relevant.

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Merry Christmas Roberta - a drama from a screenplay by Eric Nemoto & Jon Brekke
directed by Jon Brekke & Michael Wurth
adapted for the stage by Michael Wurth & Jon Brekke
December 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011

Merry Christmas Roberta is a heartwarming drama about friendship, forgiveness and the love of family, a compassionate tale inspired by the homeless and small business owners who share Honoluluxs Chinatown. Roberta premiered in 2008, receiving po`okela awards for Best Overall Play and Featured Female in a Play. It returns with two of the principal actors from that production. This storyxs dramatic content is recommended for mature audiencesxa tale that will tug at your heart strings and warm your spirits for the holiday season.

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Gem of the Ocean
a drama by August Wilson
Feb. 18 - Mar. 13, 2011

This is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, chronologically it is the first work in August Wilson's decade by decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience in the 20th century. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home, Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama seeking forgiveness and searching for a new life. She takes them on board the boat named Gem of the Ocean and leads them to the City of Bones, a city like theyxve never seen, a city with xpalaces glittering with the light of the sun.x A classic Wilson work, written with poetry and song. Exhilarating!

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the miracle worker - a drama by William Gibson
directed by Laurie Tanoura
April 22 - May 15, 2011

Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Helen, trapped in her secret world, is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. Following scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single word: "water".

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A Delicate Balance
by Edward Albee
June 24 - July 17, 2011

This 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner enjoyed a stunning Broadway revival in 1996 and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. A wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias, share their home with Agnesx witty, alcoholic sister in an uneasy alliance of denial and confrontation. Complacency is shattered when old friends appear at the doorstep, claiming an encroaching, nameless "fear" has forced them from their own home, and their daughter returns home from a fourth failed marriage. Doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsets the "delicate balance" of the household. A powerful and beautiful play about loss and regret over paths not taken, written with humor and compassion.

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