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 27th Season
Bold Adventurous Theatre
...Anything But Square
Carpenter Square Theatre is proud to
announce the 2010-2011 season of shows!
CST brings you the shows you won't see at any other local theater.
Discover
what everyone's talking about...as we celebrate 27 years of quality alternative
theatre in Oklahoma City. For more information, please call (405) 232-6500.
Ticket Information
(Due to the nature of performing
arts events, all titles subject to change.)
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 September
3 - 25, 2010
Leading Ladies
a comedy by
Ken Ludwig
Ken Ludwig keeps
alive the humor of Philip Barry, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges and the Marx
Brothers! In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon
Over Buffalo, two Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, are down on their luck,
performing on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. On
the train, they hear that an ailing, elderly lady in York, PA wants to leave her
fortune to her two long lost English nephews. Jack and Leo decide to portray her
relatives and get the cash. When they arrive, they discover that the relatives
are nieces, not nephews, so they dive into their costume trunks to become women
a la Some Like It Hot. When Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old
lady’s niece who’s already engaged, romantic entanglements, quick changes and
near misses abound! Meg longs for the wide world out there, and when she meets
“Maxine and Stephanie,” she finally gets a taste of it.
"Ludwig’s newest farce is so
funny, it will make sophisticated and
reasonable men and women of the 21st Century cackle till their faces hurt."
– Houston Press
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 October 15 -
November
6, 2010
Sordid Lives
a
comedy by
Del Shores
The show that audiences loved at CST in 2007 is ba-ack! Winner of 14 DramaLogue
awards, including Best Production, during its long Los Angeles run, a cult film
starring Beau Bridges, Olivia Newton-John and Delta Burke and even a television
series in 2008, the wacky characters of Winters, Texas return to the CST stage
for your delight! When Peggy, a good ol’ Texas gal, hits her head on the sink
and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room,
chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. Among the "Sordid
Lives" of Mama’s remaining family is Brother Boy who
has spent the last 23 years dressed as Tammy Wynette, and we
won't even mention the nymphomaniac who’s nothin’ but Texas trash…Well,
gosh darn it, we just did, didn’t we?
For mature audiences due to strong language and subject matter.
"By
the master of Texas comedy, his colorful eccentrics are
dead on,
teetering on a Bowie’s knife edge between the hilariously improbable and the
achingly real."
– L.A. Times
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 November 26 - December
18, 2010
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
a comedy by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald and John K Alvarez
Unable to muster up excitement for their umpteenth performance of Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, three actors decide at the last minute to perform
every Christmas story ever told – plus Christmas traditions from around the
world, every carol ever sung and seasonal icons from ancient times to topical
pop culture. It turns into an impromptu madcap romp through the holiday season!
If you have enjoyed such shows as The Compleat Works of Wm Shakespeare
(Abridged), then you will love this one!
"Warning:
If you see Every Christmas Story Ever Told, you’ll never be able
to watch to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol without laughing out loud."
- Life Newspapers
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 January 14 -
February 5, 2011
Good 'N' Plenty
a
comedy
by Jeffrey Hatcher
Wintersville High School, 1976.
Richard Miller, the hip new Social Studies instructor at his crumbling old alma
mater, decides to teach his students about the U.S. criminal justice system by
staging “a drug game”. The students play pushers, buyers, narcs, cops and
lawyers using Good ‘N’ Plenty candies as the contraband. Bad idea!
After a
hilarious unraveling of authority, much of the school lands in actual jail. This
play by one of our favorite playwrights, Jeffrey Hatcher, not only examines our
system of government, but provides us the opportunity to exercise the most
precious freedom democracy allows: The ability to laugh at it all!
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 February 18 - March
12, 2011
Skin
Deep
a
romantic comedy
Jon Lonoff
In this
quick-witted voyage into the rocky seas of middle-aged love and dating, a large,
lovable lonely-heart gets more romance than she bargained for when she agrees to
a blind date set up by her sister and brother-in-law who are having their own
marital issues. Maureen and Joseph start to realize they’re perfect for each
other, but will they admit it?
"It’s a little Paddy
Chayefsky, a lot Neil Simon…the dialogue is crackling and hilarious."
– NYTheatreWorld.com
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 April 1-23, 2011
The Scarlet
Letter
a drama
by Phyllis Nagy, adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s
magnum opus that explores sin, hypocrisy and society is vividly re-imagined in
this sexually charged tale of obsession and revenge. Set in Puritan times, it is
the story of Hester Prynne who gives birth after committing adultery, is forced
to wear a scarlet letter "A," and struggles to create a new life for herself and
her child. The play has a decidedly contemporary slant that is told from the
point of view of Pearl, Hester Prynne’s now grown and highly spirited daughter.
It’s a brilliant, unusual adaptation of "the greatest American novel."
"Hawthorne
may have always been engaging, but he's never been this hip."
– The Washington Post
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 May
20 - June 4, 2011
You've Got Hate Mail!
a comedy by Billy Van
Zandt and Jane Milmore
Attorney Richard is in the midst of a torrid affair with Wanda, a young lady in
his office. Between rendezvous in the elevator and the fourth floor restroom,
their sexy emails fly back and forth on the internet. When Richard’s wife tries
out her new laptop, she interrupts their binary repartee one afternoon. In the
midst of zipping back and forth between emails from the two ladies, Richard
mistakenly sends his wife a lusty message intended for his lover, and the cyber
mayhem ensues. Almost immediately, the couple’s friends, George and Peg, get
involved, which only complicates matters more. The audience should be LOL (that
is, laughing out loud) as the story escalates into a comic free-for-all with a
surprise ending.
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 July
1–16, 2011
Five Women
Wearing The Same Dress
a comedy by Alan Ball
By the
creator and producer of True Blood and Six Feet Under and the
author of American Beauty, this is an irreverent and funny look at the
intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing! During an
ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five
reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each
with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on,
these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly
funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.
For mature
audiences due to some scenes with drug use.
"…[a]
wonderfully entertaining play…" —NY Post.
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Season
tickets now on sale. Phone (405) 232-6500 for more information.
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Updated:
June 21, 2011
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