Same Time, Next Year
It's been a while since I introduced another show to you, so today I would like to tell you about Same Time, Next Year, the final show in our Ennotville Summer Theatre season.
Same Time, Next Year is a romantic comedy based around an extra-marital affair that two people carry on, one weekend a year, for nearly their entire married lives. They do so in the same California hotel room, and it's about the only thing that doesn't change over the course of their liaison. Against the backdrop of cold war, civil rights, the women's movement, and a potpurri of other forces which shaped the twentieth century they carry on their illicit affair. They are completely open and honest with each other about their spouses and the challenges the face from year to year, and while they don't always get along they always manage to find each other in the end, and despite being framed in the guilt of being cheaters in their respective marriages both George and Doris retain a loveable charm that reminds us of our need to find true love and companionship, not just heated moments of lust that fade to memories over time.
This is a fairly well-known play, and given that, and its somewhat salacious pretext I thought long and hard before I included it in the season. To be sure, it is funny. Very, very funny. And reading it made me feel a great connection to the material that I don't get very often, so that was enough to convince me that it was a winner. I hope that audiences will enjoy this show - it is being directed by Arlene Callaghan, who's last show at the library was Talley's Folly, last summer's unqualified "hit" show, so we can safely expect another stellar production this time around.
I'll have more to say on this show, hopefully some pictures too, as we get closer and closer to opening night, which is August 14th, in case you were wondering.
Same Time, Next Year is a romantic comedy based around an extra-marital affair that two people carry on, one weekend a year, for nearly their entire married lives. They do so in the same California hotel room, and it's about the only thing that doesn't change over the course of their liaison. Against the backdrop of cold war, civil rights, the women's movement, and a potpurri of other forces which shaped the twentieth century they carry on their illicit affair. They are completely open and honest with each other about their spouses and the challenges the face from year to year, and while they don't always get along they always manage to find each other in the end, and despite being framed in the guilt of being cheaters in their respective marriages both George and Doris retain a loveable charm that reminds us of our need to find true love and companionship, not just heated moments of lust that fade to memories over time.
This is a fairly well-known play, and given that, and its somewhat salacious pretext I thought long and hard before I included it in the season. To be sure, it is funny. Very, very funny. And reading it made me feel a great connection to the material that I don't get very often, so that was enough to convince me that it was a winner. I hope that audiences will enjoy this show - it is being directed by Arlene Callaghan, who's last show at the library was Talley's Folly, last summer's unqualified "hit" show, so we can safely expect another stellar production this time around.
I'll have more to say on this show, hopefully some pictures too, as we get closer and closer to opening night, which is August 14th, in case you were wondering.
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