Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, Inc.

Mohonk Mountain Stage Company

Raw, powerful, visceral.
Sweet, tender, quiet.
Rowdy, funny, bawdy.

It's the energy that draws you forward in your seat.
It's the pulse that makes you engage.
It's the spark that makes you think.


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Greetings!

What if Hamlet been written by A R Gurney? And what if it was set in an Adirondack hotel, instead of Denmark? And what if the Hamlet character wore a tuxedo, not a doublet? How to tie

Well, come to Unison next weekend and find out!

We are happy to return to one of our favorite playwrights, A.R. Gurney. In our past seventeen seasons we have produced Love Letters, Ancestral Voices, Screen Play, Labor Day, The Guest Lecturer, Mrs. Farnsworth, Post Mortem, Indian Blood, The Dining Room, and of course, Sylvia. And in Black Tie, Gurney has returned to his favorite topics, the foibles of the upper middle-class and the WASPs of North America!

So, leave your own formal clothes at home, but be prepared to laugh and fall in love with Curtis, his wife and kids, and the ghost of his father!  See you there.

Bob
Robert Miller

 

Black TieHudson Valley Premiere
Black Tie
by A. R. Gurney

Co-sponsored by Chronogram Magazine, Mayo Consulting, and Hudson Real American Whiskey 

 

 

Black Tie is one of this prolific writer's most enjoyable plays in years - The New York Times

 

Father of the groom, Curtis, simply wants to make a memorable toast. But before he is able to raise his glass, he must defend the time-honored ways of his past, including his attire. Cultures clash when a surprise guest is announced, threatening to throw convention out the window. Curtis finds that balancing the standards of his late father and the needs of his future family may prove too messy for a black tie affair.

 

Directed by Christine Crawfis

 

Featuring Paul Coleman, Zsuzsa Manna,
William Connors, Rich Hack and Janet Nurre.
 

 

 

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Friday and Saturday � October 21 & 22 � 8pm at Unison Theater
$14 members, $18 non-members at the door. Save $2 when you pre-purchase your tickets. 845-255-1559

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Language Archive
And coming in December...

Hudson Valley Premiere

The Language Archive
by Julia Cho

  

Co-sponsored by Chronogram Magazine, Mayo Consulting, and Hudson Real American Whiskey

 

  

Winner of the 2010 Susan Blackburn Prize


George is a brilliant linguist, consumed with preserving and documenting dying languages. But at home, he cannot find the words that will preserve his disintegrating marriage. His archival assistant is mute with adoration for him; and his newest subjects, an elderly couple who are the last speakers of an obscure language, refuse to utter a word to one another.    

 

Cho's magical prize-winning comedy, loaded with life's contradictions - love and loss, happiness and pain, endings and beginnings - asks whether love is a universal language or, like Esperanto, just a well-intentioned dream.  

 

Directed by Christine Crawfis

 

Featuring Rich Hack, Zsuzsa Manna, Douglas Woolley, Molly Parker-Myers, Janet Nurre, Cate Olson, and Jeffrey Battersby

 

 

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Julia Cho

 

Friday & Saturday � December 9 & 10 � 8pm at Unison Theater
$14 members, $18 non-members at the door. Save $2 when you pre-purchase your tickets.
845-255-1559

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About Us
Mohonk Mountain Stage Company has been taking audiences on extraordinary theatrical journeys since 1994. MMSC was formed in 1994 to perform works of strong literary merit for young and adult audiences. The Theatre for Young Audiences has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. MMSC's unique Participation Format enables children not only to observe the action, but also to become a part of it. The Readers Theater Group has given over 750 performances of plays, prose and poetry throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. In addition to performing plays and readings of works of literary merit. MMSC Publishing produces a literary journal, Vanguard Voices of the Hudson Valley and customized audio recordings.