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Eat Your Heart Out

Charlie, an out-of-work actor currently emplyed as a waiter, takes the audience through a sequence of hilarious encounters in succession of Manhatten restaurants. By changing the tablecloths during the course of action the basic setting becomes a variety of New York restauurants , both elegant and shabby.
The other performers play several parts: the girl desperately trying to eat snails and oysters to please her fiancee: the middle-aged couple whose marriage is breaking up: the lovers so intent on each other they cannot order dinner: the rich, embittered astrologer: the timid and who never gets a waiter: the agents, directors, actors and waiters.
Season: October 15 - 30.

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The Subject was Roses

John and Nettie Cleary live unhappily together in a middle-class apartment in the West Bronx, New York. Their 21 year old son Timmy has just returned home after serving three years in the army during World War II. As the drama unfolds, the tensions in the family become apparant.
Husband and wife squabble; Nettie is over protective toward her grown son; John tries to overcome years of neglect and make an affectionate connection with Timmy; but that path proves stormy. Eventually Timmy inadvertently sends down a depth charge into the deep well of his parents' mutual misery when he impulsbuys Nettie a dozen roses, then urges his father to take the credit.
Gilroy's perceptive observation of the way this small incidnet becomes the catalyst for a painful examination of the family pathologies gives the paly its power.
Season: August 17 - September 11.

Sandcastles

We all like to be beside the seasideand, aas everybody knows, an Englishman's home is his sand castle. Stan and Bernice Billet and William and Margaret Patterson have been taking their holidays at the same resort for years. Thye don't exactly rule the waves but they have turned the area around their beach huts into a cosy little kingdom for themselves. And then along comes Doug, with his nubile nieces. They don't give a hoot for beach hut protocol - they just went to have fun in the sun.
Season: August 13 - 29 at 8.15pm.

Cosi

A moving and humerous story of Lewis Riley a young, inexperienced student who is hired by a psychiatric institute to direct a play as part of the hospital's therapeutic program.
The venue is a theatre that smells of "burnt wood and mould", the cast are patients with very diverse and the play is Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte. Roy, a patient demands the Mozart woek, but his fellow inmates are neither opera singers nor Italian speakers and Lewis' problems don't end there.
Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side if himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love. while anti-Vietnam war protests erupt in the street outside.
Season: November 5 - 20.

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