HILARIOUS FARCE! The Government Inspector By Nikolai Gogol Directed by Emma Griffin September 7 – October 5, 2008 A word of advice: If you are going to bribe someone, be sure you got the right man. It’s a small town in the middle of nowhere and everyone from the mayor to the cops bilks the system. Rules are made to be bent. Everyone cuts a few corners here and there: The Doctor hordes the best medicine for himself; the Judge keeps geese in the courtroom and sleeps with the neighbor’s wife; the Postmaster reads all the mail to keep from getting bored. It has been like this for years, but when a letter is opened that forewarns an undercover inspector coming to look into how close the corners are being cut, there is only one thing to do: Find the inspector first and slip him a few bills to look the other way. The Government Inspector is a watershed in the development of farce, and fans of funny—from the Marx Brothers to Will Ferrell—will recognize something. Guest Director Emma Griffin relocates the play from rural Russia to a rural Alaskan fantasia. Train tickets gambled away at cards become ferry tickets, and you’ll never be able to guess who finally catches up to this gang of petty crooks in the most famous surprise ending in theatre.  PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMA! Doubt: A Parable By John Patrick Shanley Directed by Flordelino Lagundino November 2 – 30, 2008 Did he or didn’t he? Do you really want to know...? It’s the early 1960s and John F. Kennedy is President. In a small Catholic school, Principal Sister Aloysius has suspicions about the beloved Father Flynn. He delivers great sermons, the children adore him, he’s extremely charismatic and he just might be guilty of something terrible. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Shanley’s Doubt gives our audiences and local actors a thrilling, rich drama, sandwiched in between zany comedies. Directed by company member Flordelino Lagundino, director of last season’s Yellowman.  RIOTOUS COMEDY! Wittenberg by David Davalos Directed by Michael Stevenson January 4 – February 1, 2009 Doctor Faustus, Prince Hamlet, and Martin Luther walk into a bar... It’s the last week of October, 1517, in Wittenberg, Germany. The University is the best of its time. And its best student, Hamlet, can’t decide what to major in, being pulled in two different directions by star professors Doctor Faustus and Martin Luther. Faustus, a brilliant, dashing blasphemer, clashes with the constipated but equally brilliant Luther over God, faith, philosophy and the Prince of Denmark. Set right before the tragic events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this hilarious comedy shows what happens when devilishly brilliant people have too much time on their hands.  STATEHOOD CELEBRATION! Battles of Fire and Water by David Hunsaker Directed by Laurie McCants March 1 – April 5, 2009 The Russians say they won. The Tlingits say they never surrendered. Who gets to tell the story? In Sitka, in 1802, the Russians got into a battle that was much more than they bargained for. They returned in 1804, with better results, and thereby uprooting the Kiks.adi clan. Led by outsized figures such as Captain Lisianski and war leader Katlian, the Tlingits and Russians engaged in a long series of battles, negotiations, intrigue, blows and counter-blows, which would ultimately determine the direction of Russian America, and the relationships between distant cultures. Based on oral and written narratives compiled in a landmark book by Richard and Nora Dauenhauer, David Hunsaker (Yup’ik Antigone, Three Way River) intertwines the differing accounts together to tell both sides of this major piece of Alaskan history.  SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! 8 Stars of Gold by Ryan Conarro and Maia K. Nolan Directed by Ryan Conarro April 3 – 12, 2009 Most Americans will never know what it is like to create a state. Here in Alaska, there are many people living who remember and can tell us about the time fifty years ago when we added Alaska’s star to our flag. This original play is built from discussions with our political, economic, and cultural leaders – and with regular sourdoughs and cheechakos.  FANTASTICAL COMEDY! O Lovely Glowworm by Glen Berger Directed by Wier Harman April 26 – May 17, 2009 “I cannot see or hear the world beyond my eyes and ears, no, but I’ve constructed, with great effort, an inner world, and it’s lovely.” –A dead goat A magical and realistic tale is told from the perspective of a stuffed goat. To mask his pain, the goat conjures up scenes of great beauty. Atop a rubbish heap in Ireland circa 1918, he watches World War I soldiers fall in love with a mermaid and a man struggle with his invention, the “Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer”, i.e. a toilet. Glen Berger, an accomplished writer for stage and television, flawlessly weaves toilets, mermaids, soldiers and a goat into this cohesive, romantic and intelligent story. Click here for our 2008-09 Season Subscription form (.pdf) Clic here for the Season Brochure (.pdf) PT is grateful for the annual support of hundreds of Juneau individuals and businesses as well as these generous Alaskan and National donors: The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The City and Borough of Juneau/Juneau Arts and Humanities Council City and Borough of Juneau Youth Activities Fund The Alaska State Council on the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts Alaska Airlines Alaska Humanities Forum Alaska Pacific Bank Alaska USA Federal Credit Union Paul G. Allen Family Foundation AT&T BP ConocoPhillips Douglas Dornan Foundation Jon S. & Lyndon J. Ellefson Foundation GCI Communications Juneau Empire Andrew W. 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