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Washington Stage Guild wants to keep you in the loop!
8 Sept 2020:
While we all wait to see how the pandemic plays out, the entertainment business faces specific challenges that make the future uncertain. We can’t reopen unless it’s safe for both audiences and performers, but producing plays takes a great deal of planning and preparation. So, while we can’t say exactly when we’ll be up and running again, we at Washington Stage Guild want you to know that we continue to plan so that once we can open our doors, we’ll be ready. We’ve just completed a major “green” rehaul of our lighting system, which will be more energy-efficient and make the shows we present look better than ever—whenever that is.
Here are the plays we had selected for the 2020-2021 season. They may not all get mounted when we had hoped, and possibly not all this season, but here’s what you can look forward to when the time is right.
My Children! My Africa! By Athol Fugard
The great South African playwright’s meditation on education and its role in the struggle for justice, along with its sad limits in a culture of oppression and bigotry
Sam & Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant by Gino DiIorio
Postponed from last season, an eye-opening account of two very unexpected friends and their influence on each other through the decades. A belated Area Premiere.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Two of Shaw’s greatest women clash as Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie struggle to connect in light of their very different views on women, morality, and business.
Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory
A recent hit at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Gregory’s play portrays the determination of a totalitarian regime to erase history, and the tragic effect that has on a man who can forget nothing.
The four plays may be preceded or accompanied by online readings where we can control the safety and maintain the necessary caution required before public gatherings can take place. We’ll keep you posted, and we hope you’ll keep in touch!
