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Tennessee Rep had such positive responses to the REPaloud seasons that the popular program continues during the 2011–2012 season.
REPaloud is free for 2011–2012 subscribers.
Red
by John Logan
February 24, 2012 6:30PM
February 25, 2012 2:30PM
Located at The Frist Center For Visual Arts Auditorium
Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, Red paints the vivid picture of master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko who has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery. But when Ken gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the agonizing possibility that his crowning achievement could also become his undoing. Raw and provocative, Red is a searing portrait of an artist's ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
August 25–27, 2011
Family, greed, social mores, sins of the past, and desperate hopes for the future: these themes are all prevalent in Tennessee Williams masterwork, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. One of the most successful—and most gripping—plays of the twentieth century, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof weaves the intricate tale of the Pollitt family, which has gathered to celebrate Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday. His personal favorite among his many plays, Williams deems Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a "play which says only one affirmative thing about 'Man's Fate': that he has it still in his power not to squeal like a pig but to keep a tight mouth about it.”
In the Next Room
(or the Vibrator Play)
by Sarah Ruhl
October 27–29, 2011
At the dawn of the electrical age, a new medical device is developed to cure “hysterical” women, but it produces a shockingly different result. A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a nominee for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, In the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play) is a richly textured play—both comedic and tragic--about marriage, motherhood, and the charged energy between our bodies… and promises to leave audiences “abuzz” with conversation.