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Happy Holidays from Shattered Globe!
Thinking of last minute gift ideas? Give a two-show subscription to Shattered Globe Theatre and you'll be giving all of the benefits of subscription for the remainder of the 2007-2008 season- that's two more outstanding shows from the acclaimed ensemble that brought you Come Back, Little Sheba, Dealer's Choice, The House of Blue Leaves, Judgment at Nuremberg, Coyote on a Fence, The Manchurian Candidate and countless other award-winning shows. Or get one for yourself! Season subscriptions start as low as $28. Visit the Shattered Globe website or call 773.770.0333 to subscribe today!
Shattered Globe continues its 2007-2008 season with Rod Serling's (The Twilight Zone) award-winning boxing drama REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT in January 2008, under the direction of former Shattered Globe artistic director Louis Contey (Judgment at Nuremberg, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Completing the season in May is A TASTE OF HONEY, Shelagh Delaney's poignant coming-of-age story set in working class 1950s England, directed by favorite SGT collaborator Dado (Coyote on a Fence, High Life).
The Remaining 2007-2008 Season:
REQUIEM for a HEAVYWEIGHT
By Rod Serling
Directed by Louis Contey
January-March 2008When a doctor warns that even one more fight could kill him, washed up prize fighter Harlan "Mountain" McClintock finds his career at a sudden end. Having spent fourteen years in the ring, Mountain faces the prospect of a life that does not include boxing and discovers that the skills that nearly made him a champion don't count for much in the wider world. As he tries to determine his next step, Mountain is torn between the possibility of new love and a promising future offered by social worker Grace, and loyalty to his self-serving manager Maish, who wants to exploit the fighter on the lucrative professional wrestling circuit. Widely regarded as one of the greatest sports dramas of all time, Requiem for a Heavyweight is a gut-wrenching account of the merciless prizefight game and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.
A TASTE of HONEY
By Shelagh Delaney
Directed by Dado
May-July 2008Grammar school dropout Shelagh Delaney was only seventeen years old when she started writing her first play, A Taste of Honey, a work that would propel her to literary superstardom by the time she reached her twenties. Set in 1950s Manchester, England, Delaney's poignant and comic play tells the story of Jo, a shy adolescent chafing against the constraints of her working class life and the demands of her promiscuous, irresponsible mother Helen. When Helen abandons Jo to take up with a much younger man, Jo falls prey to the advances of an itinerant sailor and is left pregnant and alone. Determined not to be undone by her difficult circumstances, she creates a new sort of family with gay art student Geoffrey, who moves into Jo's flat to help her prepare for the birth of her baby. The two settle into tentative peace and happiness-until Helen's unexpected reappearance threatens to throw Jo's life back into upheaval.
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