2008 Season

"HERE LIES JEREMY TROY" by Jack Sharkey
Thursday's and Saturday's March 1 - April 26

An ambitious lawyer, up for a partnership, is visited by an former classmate who loves sponging off his old school chums. The freeloader discovers the lawyers degree is a phoney. He blackmails the lawyer into putting him up on the very night the boss is coming for dinner. When the lawyers wife finds out that her husband has a "secret", she thinks its that he's seeing a prostitute. Infuriated by this, the lawyers wife leaves. The attorney hires a scatterbrained model to play his wife, and her attempts to help lead to disaster after disaster. When the boss, Sven Ivorson, arrives, the masquerade is nearly revealed when the wife returns and thinks the model is the hooker her husband has been seeing!

"CATFISH MOON" by Laddy Sartin
Thursday's and Saturday's beginning May 10 (tenative)*

The old fishing pier out on the end of Cypress Lake has just fallen under the magic of another Catfish Moon. It was the favorite hangout for three best friends when they were kids—skipping school, skinny dipping and even experiencing the mysteries of kissing girls. Now Curley, Gordon and Frog are older, and they have tasted the bitterness of life as well as the sweetness, and the pressures and problems that come with middle age have eroded the closeness between Frog and Gordon. The final straw comes when Frog discovers that Gordon is dating his ex-wife. Curley, the "big brother" of the bunch, in an attempt to recapture the friendship and settle all disputes, convinces Frog and Gordon to go on an overnight fishing trip like old times. On the pier, the weight of adulthood is lifted by laughter and their love of fishing, and the three guys discover that their friendship was never really lost. However, in the midst of catching the biggest fish of all time, life brings them back to a painful reality. The poignant resolution of the play brings Gordon and Frog to the realization that life is too precious and too short to let true friendship get away.

"THE FOREIGNER" by Larry Shue
Thursday's and Saturday's beginning mid-June (tenative)*

Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. An inspired comic romp, equal in inventive hilarity to the author's classic comedy The Nerd, the present play enjoyed a sold-out premiere in Milwaukee before moving on to a long run Off-Broadway. Based on what the NY Post describes as a "devilishly clever idea," the play demonstrates what can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English. "Something funny is going on in Milwaukee—to the delight of audiences at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre." —Variety. "I laughed start to finish at one comic surprise after another." —The New Yorker. "…a constant invitation to relax and laugh at the foolishness of life…" —Village Voice. "Shue's comedy is positively antic, yet pleasantly seasoned with a few dashes of sentimentality…He has raided comedy's storehouse…" —Bergen Record.

"THE DECORATOR" by Donald Churchill
Thursday's and Saturday's beginning mid-July (tenative)*

Marcia returns to her apartment to find it hasn't been painted as she arranged. A part time painter who is filling in for an ill colleague is beginning the work when the wife of the man with whom Marcia is having an affair arrives to tell all to Marcia's husband. Marcia hires the painter, a part-time actor, to impersonate the husband at the confrontation. The painter, who takes his acting very seriously, agrees to impersonate the betrayed husband. The wronged wife decides the best revenge is sleep with Marcia's husband. When Marcia learns the actor/painter has slept with her rival, she demands the opportunity to show him what a good time really is!

"ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT" by Jeff Daniels
Thursday's and Saturday's beginning mid-August (tenative)*

When the Soady clan reunites for the opening day of deer season at the family's Upper Peninsula camp, thirty five year old Reuben Soady brings with him the infamous reputation of being the oldest Soady in the history of the Soady clan never to bag a buck. In a hunting story to end all hunting stories, "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" spins a hilarious tale of humor, horror and heart as Reuben goes to any and all lengths to remove himself from the wrong end of the family record book.

"FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY'S PRODUCTION OF 'MURDER AT CHECKMATE MANOR' "
by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr.
Thursday's and Saturday's beginning mid-September (tenative)*

Every theater group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on show night. Well, the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different. The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines are forgotten and the sound effects take on a strange note at times, as the ladies present the evenings entertainment, a clever whodunit, "Murder at Checkmate Manor".

*Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice