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REPaloud is free for 2010–2011 subscribers.
Tennessee Rep had such a positive response to the inaugural REPaloud season that the popular program returns during the 2010-2011 season.
The following plays will be featured:
Take Me Out
by Richard Greenberg
winner of the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play
August 27–28, 2010
7:00 PM
Darren Lemming, the star centerfielder of the world champion New York Empires, is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he’s gay, he assumes the news will be readily accepted by everyone. It isn’t. Friends, fans, and teammates react with ambivalence, and when the slipping Empires call up the young phenom Shane Mungitt to close their games, the ambivalence turns to violence. Angry, lonely, guilt-ridden and confused, Darren finds some unlikely solace in the form of friendship with his new business manager, Mason Marzac—a brilliant but repressed guy, who, as everyone around him copes with disenchantment, blooms in the ecstatic discovery of baseball.
Ruined
by Lynn Nottage
winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
January 14–15, 2011
From Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel, comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?
August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts
winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama
April 8–9, 2011
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.