CCT's 2010-2011 Season

Comedy/Musical
September 3 -26, 2010

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

by Rachel Sheinkin; Music & Lyrics by William Finn

The competition is intense. The words are hiarious. Let the spelling begin! The show centers around a fictional spelling bee in Putnam County, New York. Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.

Drama
October 29 - Nov 21, 2010

Doubt: a parable

by John Patrick Shanley

"Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty."

The play is set in the St. Nicholas Church School during the fall of 1964. Father Flynn, a beloved and progressive parish priest, and the school's principal, Sister Aloysius, a rigidly conservative nun, disagree on how to teach their students. How they resolve this conflict made this play and the 2008 film (based on the play) award winning.

Magical Romance
February 4 - 27, 2011

Almost, Maine

by John Cariani

On a cold, clear, moonless Friday night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, residents of Almost find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised; hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded. But the bruises heal and the hearts mend ... almost.

Funny Drama
April 1 - 24, 2011

Same Time, Next Year

by Bernard Slade

George and Doris meet at a Northern California inn in 1951. Over the course of the next 24 years, they develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect to find between two people meeting for a clandestine relationship just once a year. During the time they spend with each other, they discuss the births, deaths, and marital problems each is experiencing at home, while they adapt themselves to the social changes affecting their lives.

Frantic Farce
June 3 - 26, 2011

The Unvarnished Truth

by Royce Ryton

Tom and Annabel are a reasonably happy married couple. One evening they have an argument as to who loves the other most. A rough-and-tumble ensues, and Tom discovers to his horror that Annabel is dead. So starts an evening of black farce. The hysterical ending finds the stage littered with female corpses and frenzied males.