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The PlayMakers Repertory Company will bring audiences the excitement of the rotating repertory experience from Jan. 26 through March 2, with two mainstage productions running on an alternating schedule.
Both plays – Doubt, A Parable and Topdog/Underdog – are recent Broadway hits that won Pulitzer Prizes.
All performances by PlayMakers, the professional theatre in residence at UNC, are in the Paul Green Theatre, inside the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. For a complete schedule of performances, visit http://www.playmakersrep.org.
Tickets are $10 to $40. Special events will include:
• dual opening festivities on Feb. 2, with Topdog/Underdog performed at 2 p.m. and Doubt: A Parable at 8 p.m.;
• free public director’s talks and set previews at noon on Jan. 16, with Andrew Barr for Doubt: A Parable and noon Jan. 23 with Raelle Myrick-Hodges for Topdog/Underdog, both in the Paul Green Theatre;
• free post-show discussions on Feb. 6 and Feb. 10 for Doubt and Feb. 13 for Topdog/Underdog; and;
• all-access performances for attendees with special needs on Feb. 19 (Doubt) and Feb. 26 (Topdog/Underdog).
Doubt, A Parable is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded principal wrestles with conscience and uncertainty when faced with concerns about a male colleague. The Tony Award winner by John Patrick Shanley is an exploration of paranoia and suspicion that calls into question faith, justice and assumptions about the nature of truth. Shanley also received an Academy Award for his original script for the film Moonstruck.
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is the story of African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth, whose names were given to them as a joke by their father. Abandoned by their parents as teenagers, they fight for position and legitimacy in the world. Haunted by their past and their obsession with the con game three-card monte, they are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.