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2011-2012 SEASON
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OPENING FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Graphic: Ariana Cook

Time in Kafka

by Len Jenkin

February 18th through March 17th with $10 preview performances Feb. 15th, 16th and 17th

A World Premiere.

Opening night: February 18th

When an American college professor is visited by the spirit of Franz Kafka, he is launched on an international adventure in search of a lost manuscript. His pursuit takes him on a hurtling journey, slipping back in time to a mysterious sanatorium on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. There he must confront a shadowy parade of uncanny figures from a wandering general to a tarot-reading princess. A fantasia of literature, dreams, obsessions…and Kafka. From Obie award-winning playwright Len Jenkin, author of the celebrated Port Twilight (“a work of true theatrical genius" – Dallas Morning News) and Margo Veil.

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Graphic: Ariana Cook

The Birthday Party

by Harold Pinter
Directed by Patrick Kelly

May 5th through June 2nd with $10 preview performances May 2nd, 3rd and 4th

Opening night: May 5th

Harold Pinter’s seminal, mid-century masterpiece will be directed by Patrick Kelly.

In Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter’s wicked comedy, two strangers intrude on the sleepy seaside boarding house of Meg and Petey. They’ve arrived just in time for the birthday party of the star-boarder, Stanley, a celebration that soon shatters into madness and menace. A rare opportunity to see the revolutionary play that turned the tables on modern theatre.

“Theatrically speaking, The Birthday Party is absorbing. It is witty. Its characters . . . are fascinating. The plot, which consists, with all kinds of verbal arabesques and echoing explorations of memory and fancy, of the springing of a trap, is first-rate.”
- Harold Hobson, The Sunday Times

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UNDERMAIN READS AT

Join us for year two of Undermain’s hit reading series in collaboration with the esteemed Dallas Museum of Art. These rare and varied works drawn from many theatrical traditions are fully produced readings accompanied by a feast of sound and visuals on select Saturday afternoons in the Horchow auditorium. TBA