Vermont Theatre Festival
2026 Season
Patience
by
WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Gilbert spent his career satirizing theBritish class structure...the army, the navy, the courts and, in Patience, the cult of asthticism as embodied by Oscar Wilde much to the amusement of his middle class audiences.
Henry V
by
William Shakespeare
The bellicose patriotism in this, the last instalment of Shakespeare’s Henriad, makes it a perfect drama for today – showing us the repeated history of war, invasion and acquisition in the name of nationalism.
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Exit the King
by
Eugene Ionesco
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The format is simple. Berenger – the stock hero of many Ionesco plays – is now a 400-year-old monarch presiding over a ruined kingdom and facing imminent death: in the course of the play’s 105 minutes, he is constantly told how little time he has left. But initially, Berenger, attended by his two wives, his doctor and a couple of servants, is in a state of denial. Even when he does accept the inevitability of death, he becomes obsessed by his legacy until, one by one, his faculties and his followers desert him.
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Krapp's Last Tape
by
Samuel Becket
Beckett’s celebrated play from 1958 is so precisely composed in its interplay of language, movement and silence that any new variations tend to be all in the detail. As the 69-year-old Krapp listens to tape recordings of his younger self, he pauses and interjects. His eyes register minute flickers of emotion, his years of performing to camera adding a subtlety that seems effortless.
Bemused by the confident delivery of the 39-year-old on tape, Krapp mocks his younger self’s artistic ambition. As he berates himself for his lack of achievement in the intervening years, he brings a harsh, almost sarcastic tone to his self-criticism, deepening its pathos. Not only does Krapp feel like a failure but he has to kick himself about it as well.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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​Joan Didion
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In December 2003, as an acute, lifelong reporter of her inner states, Joan Didion was presented with a unique opportunity to examine the experience of bereavement.
Love and death are the themes of the great novels, but the emotion that links love and death – grief – is more often the stuff of memoir than fiction. Still, you have to be a very special kind of writer to find the detachment to examine a devastating personal loss, especially if you are going to write about it inside out. In The Year of Magical Thinking this is precisely what Didion does.
The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s comedy was, as he himself said, “written by a butterfly, for butterflies”. Real life may threaten: the mercenary Victorian marriage market and cruel policing of desire that bit Wilde himself so savagely after the 1895 premiere. It is brilliantly witty and has withstood the test of time for two centuries with some of the choice st acting parts for many famous actors including Maggie Smith, Judy Dench and a host of others.
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Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under.
Curtain time is 7:30 evenings and 2:30 for matinees.
The Unadilla is a 501c3 non profit organization.
Reservations can be made by calling 456-8968 or by email at unadilla@pshift.com
Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under.
Curtain time is 7:30 evenings and 2:30 for matinees.
The Unadilla is a 501c3 non profit organization.
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