As always, Big Idea has selected plays that represent a wide variety of styles and themes. This season’s shows are an exciting mix of old and new comedies and dramas that will strike a chord with our audience. Whether they are timeless stories re-written for a modern audience, or modern stories written in a timeless fashion, these stories are provocative and entertaining.
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Titus Andronicus returns from a long war campaign to discover that he is the people’s choice to be emperor after the recent death of the previous one. Though he rejects the people’s will and backs the former emperor’s son, the manipulative politics between his family, a family of Goths he has taken back to Rome as prisoners, and the sons of the last emperor, resulting in violence, bloodshed, and many gruesome murders.
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Three days before a wedding, a handsome and mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River. Set once upon a time in a small Brazilian fishing village, The River Bride is a tale of true love, regret, and two sisters who struggle to be true to each other and their hearts.
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Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you’re hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.
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Ten explorers. Four Boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.
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On November 11, 1988, police discovered 7 bodies buried in Dorothea Puente’s yard, thanks in large part to the heroic efforts of a humble volunteer social worker. This charismatic, often funny con artist has come back from the dead to convince the audience that she was wronged.
Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, Dorothea Puente Tells All! shows the rise and fall of an engaging and crafty villain who believes the audience is on her side. Mrs. Puente never stopped maintaining her innocence and some never stopped believing her. In unraveling the truth of Dorothea Puente, this play also shows the rest of us something about our own needs and vulnerabilities, and how we can protect ourselves from people who would exploit us.
