AtticRep 2007-2008 Season
June 14-24, 2007
Just a Kiss
by Catherine Bush
Directed by Stacey Connelly
Annie and Zee are two actresses stumbling on their way to fame. Zee has a bit part on one of television’s forensic crime shows, Annie keeps getting cast as Meryl Streep’s daughter’s friend in film after film. Now they’ve gone back to their theatre roots, costarring in an off-Broadway show. There’s just one hitch: Annie and Zee play lovers and they have a scene. A love scene. It’s no big deal, really. It’s just a kiss. But when this kiss becomes the talk of the theatre season, half of New York begins to wonder where the acting leaves off and reality begins. Review & Production Photos
July 12, 2007 at 7:30
AtticRep and the McNay Art Museum Present
Enchanted Evenings
from Butterfly to Broadway
August 16-26, 2007
Mr. Marmalade
by Noah Haidle
Directed by Tim Hedgepeth
Lucy is a four-year-old girl with a very active imagination. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade, doesn’t have much time for her. Not to mention he beats up his personal assistant, has a cocaine addiction, and a penchant for pornography. Larry, her only real friend, is the youngest suicide attempt in the history of New Jersey. Mr. Marmalade is a savage black comedy about what it takes to grow up in these difficult times. Review from the SA Current & Review from the Express-News
Production Photos
December 6-15, 2007
Back of the Throat
by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo
Back of the Throat is the tale of an apparently friendly visit by two government officials, which soon devolves into a full-blown, no-holds-barred probe. Khaled, an Arab-American writer and the focus of their inquiry, finds himself, to his astonishment, suddenly accused of possible ties to terrorists. As the interrogation proceeds, the officials reveal their evidence, but is it evidence? Or have innocent events been distorted through the lens of paranoid suspicion? As the situation turns increasingly surreal, and the menace to Khaled increasingly real, the question of what it means to be an American takes on a very personal and charged significance. Back of the Throat is an enthralling and chilling black comedy. Read the Reviews,
Meet the Cast & Production Team, Production Photos.
presents
Forum Theater Project 2008
A community-based theater event on Culture and Civic Status
March 2008
All theater mirrors its community. AtticRep’s new Forum Theater Project will strive to reflect the topics of San Antonio.
Using performance strategies and theatrical language, Forum Theater Project will construct an original performance that focuses on the individual’s sense of belonging to our San Antonio community. In particular, this Forum will interrogate how belonging to a specific cultural and ethnic identity determines self- and public conceptions of citizenship in San Antonio and, by extension, America.
AtticRep will provide the means to forge these ideas into provocative concrete form.
The Forum Theater Project aims to stimulate dialogue; and through dialogue, change. More
May 8-18, 2008
Lincolnesque
by John Strand
Directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo
Leo is a Capitol Hill speechwriter struggling to stay employed. His brother Francis is a psychiatric outpatient convinced that he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln. Leo's employer, a stunningly mediocre congressman, looks headed for defeat in his re-election bid. But when Francis secretly takes over the speechwriting, the congressman starts sounding heroic, even inspiring. A seriously comic look at Washington’s political strategies during elections.