Happy New Year and Welcome to MMSC's Annual Encore Series! Our Encore Series allows us to revisit those plays which have been particular favorites for our audiences in the past year. And this year's Series brings back two wonderful favorites: Julia Cho's award-winning play, The Language Archive, and Geoffrey Naufft's bitter-sweet Next Fall. 


First up, The Language Archive is about love, language, and [mis]communication. You might think that, surely, a linguistic scholar who can speak dozens of languages is an expert in a communication. But alas, in The Language Archive you will discover that George may be able to speak Esperanto, but he cannot communicate. Of the many paths of communication available to us, we learn, perhaps the hardest one to traverse is the language of love. While languages dwindle or communication fails, Cho's terse language thrives. "I like empty space. I like silence. I like room on the page. I feel that what I love best is making an audience have to imagine things for themselves. I'm trying to leave room for someone to come meet me part of the way."




Next Fall will will be our second offering in our 2013 Encore Series. Two men in love, two parents in denial, two friends on speed dial. An experience to remember. If you saw it last March, you know what we are talking about. Bring someone you care about and share it with them.

So, get out those brand new calendars and mark these dates to join us - one last time - as we retell these wonderful stories. Come and share our magic.

Bob

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Our Encore of
The Language Archive
by Julia Cho

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.    

 

 

Cho says the first impulse for The Language Archive was an obituary 

how the last speaker of a certain language had passed away. It was the first obituary of that kind that Cho had seen. Soon afterward, she started reading books and articles about decaying languages. George was the first character that emerged. "What came was the voice of this person who cared so much about these languages that were dying and wanted so badly to save them."    

 

 

Julia Cho

Friday & Saturday · January 18 & 19 · 8pm
Unison Arts, New Paltz
$18 in advance, $20 at the door, Unison members'  discounted tickets available.

Buy on-line or call
845-255-1559
Directions to Unison

Douglas Woolley,

And then ...

Next Fall

by Geoffrey Nauffts

• Tony Award Nominee - Best Play
• Outer Critics Circle Award - Best New American Play
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Nominee     

"Ample heart and snappy humor... speaks in a quiet voice of momentous things." - New York Times

 

Luke believes in God.  Adam believes in everything else.  Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love.  

 

 

Hilarious and heartbreaking, it exposes the fundamental truth that we love people both because of - and in spite of - who they are.

 

Bring someone you care about, take a deep breath, and enjoy this "artful, thoughtful and very moving" (New York Times) new drama.

Friday & Saturday
February 22 & 23
Unison Arts, New Paltz

$18 in advance, $20 at the door, Unison members'  discounted tickets available.

Buy on-line or call
845-255-1559

Cast of MMSC's production of Next Fall - March 2012

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.