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2008-09 -- 87th Season

Bright IdeasBright Ideas
By Eric Coble

8 PM
October 10-11 & 17-18, 2008
Kanawha Players Theater

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Some parents will stop at nothing to give their children an advantage. "Coble’s deliciously black comedy benefits from hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits…the near surreal spoof hits home with rib-tickling acuity…” —NY Times.

A Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol
By John Jakes

8 PM
December 12-13 & 19-20, 2008
Charleston Civic Center Little Theater

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John Jakes' adaptation of A Christmas Carol is a fresh new approach to the classic holiday story with a faithful attention to Dickens' words.  Charles Dickens himself is introduced to the audience, ready to present one of the famed platform readings of his stories that packed auditoriums in Europe and America.  The story unfolds behind him, and soon Dickens is weaving in and out of the action, observing, performing small roles, interpolating short passages of rich narrative never heard in other versions.  The piece includes “God Bless Us Every One,” a lovely new carol by Jakes and Tony-nominated composer Mel Marvin. Jim Volz, former managing director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival where the play received its professional premiere, says of it: “In John Jakes’ hands, A Christmas Carol recaptures the magic and mystique of the Dickens original.”

Intimate ApparelIntimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage

8 PM, February 6-7 & 13-14, 2009
Kanawha Players Theater

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Winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Awards. “…a deeply moving portrait of Esther, a middle-aged African-American woman…Nottage’s play has a delicacy and eloquence that seem absolutely right for the time she is depicting" —NY Daily News.

Tom Sawyer PosterTom Sawyer
Book by Ken Ludwig
Music and Lyrics by Don Schlitz

8 PM, April 3-4, 10-11, 2009 
Charleston Civic Center Little Theater

Special School Performances
9:20 AM, April 2-3, 2009

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Mark Twain's classic story comes to exuberant musical life in this Broadway adaptation of America's favorite book.

A Body of WaterA Body of Water
by Lee Blessing

Kanawha Players Theater
8 PM, Thursday-Saturday, June 11, 12, 13, 2009 
2 PM, Sunday, June 14, 2009
2 PM, Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Moss and Avis, a middle-aged couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water. The weather's fine; the view's magnificent. There's only one problem—neither of them can remember who they are. When a young woman named Wren arrives, information starts to flood in. But will it help? Her explanations seem only to make Moss and Avis' world—as well as ours—more terrifying.  It's a puzzler of a play that explores the indispensability of memory and challenges audiences to figure out what's really going on.