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Wintertime
by Charles Mee
Feb 8 - 16, 2025
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Directed by Matt Korda
Romantic comedy | Drury Stage
Wintertime is a celebration of romance and a dynamic comedy which talks about the wonder of love. Jonathan loves Ariel, his mother, Maria loves Francois, - and Frank, her husband and Jonathan's father, who loves Maria and his lover, Edmund. Bertha and Hilda, outspoken lesbian lovers, join the group, along with the composter guy and Dr. Benoit. Members of this gloriously eccentric family arrive at their summer house in the winter woods for a supposedly secret rendezvous - and soon bodies collide, doors slam, dishes fly, and everyone's perfect plans go fantastically awry.
AUDITIONS
Tennessee Williams'
A House Not Meant to Stand
Feb 18th at 7:30pm
Directed by Julia Houck
Madison Public Theatre will hold auditions for Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand on Tuesday, February 18 at 7:30 PM. Open roles include Stacey, early 20's, the pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend of son Charlie; Officer PeeWee Jackson, a police officer in his 20's, and Dr. Crane, a middle-aged general practitioner.
A House Not Meant to Stand is Williams' final play. Subtitled A Gothic Comedy, the play is set in the deteriorating Mississippi house of Cornelius and Bella McCorkle, who have just buried their eldest son, a gay man Cornelius banished from the home years earlier. During a raging storm, heavy drinker Cornelius, who once had political aspirations, tries to get Bella to disclose where she concealed the considerable amount of money she inherited from her grandfather, who accumulated his wealth by making and selling moonshine. When she refuses to cooperate, her husband threatens to have her institutionalized. Coming to her rescue is their negligent youngest son Charlie, who has returned home with his zealously religious pregnant fiancée Stacey in tow.
The production rehearses at Dale Heights Presbyterian Church in Middleton beginning in late March, and the show runs in the Drury Theatre at the Bartell from May 9-24. For questions, contact director Julia Houck at juliahouckking@gmail.com.
2024-2025 Season
The Untold Story of the Collyer Brothers
by Finn Gallagher*
October 11 – 26, 2024
Drama | Evjue Stage
*Local playwright
The real-life Collyer Brothers of Harlem, famously reclusive millionaire hoarders, wanted nothing more than to be left alone 140 ton “collection.” After suffering a stroke, Homer was left blind and paralyzed, reliant on his brother, Langley, to care for him. Langley and Homer have very different opinions on their solitude, their collection, and the newspaper reporters knocking at the door, but they’re stuck together. That is, until Langley dies suddenly, and Homer is left to starve.
Wintertime
by Charles Mee
Feb 8 - 16, 2025
Directed by Matt Korda
Romantic comedy | Drury Stage
Wintertime is a celebration of romance and a dynamic comedy which talks about the wonder of love. Jonathan loves Ariel, his mother, Maria loves Francois, - and Frank, her husband and Jonathan's father, who loves Maria and his lover, Edmund. Bertha and Hilda, outspoken lesbian lovers, join the group, along with the composter guy and Dr. Benoit. Members of this gloriously eccentric family arrive at their summer house in the winter woods for a supposedly secret rendezvous - and soon bodies collide, doors slam, dishes fly, and everyone's perfect plans go fantastically awry.
A House Not Meant to Stand
by Tennessee Williams
May 9 - 24, 2025
Directed by Julia Houck
Dark Comedy | Drury Stage
Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return one stormy midnight from the funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart - daughter Joanie is in an asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. In this dark, expressionistic
comedy, what he called his “Southern Gothic Spook Sonata,” Williams brilliantly chronicles the fragile state of our world. This final play of Williams is rarely produced in the US. Don’t miss your chance to see his most brilliant work.