Jacqueline E. Lawton's Edges of Time to Receive World Premiere production at PlayMakers Repertory Company
PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly announces its 2019/20 Season: Legacy | NOW. The season brings to our Mainstage one of the bard’s best tales of political intrigue, a sweeping, Tony Award-winning musical, a seminal American novel in a theatrical re-imagining, a comedy about why fences make for terrible neighbors, a fresh take on the age-old morality play, and a world premiere comedy about a farm-to-table food fight. Our PRC2 Kenan Stage series, curated to spark conversation, brings us the voices of two North Carolina writers as they explore two vastly different women of substantial legacy and a third story that examines the path to forgiveness forged in a community after an unthinkable tragedy.
As PlayMakers celebrates 100 years of playmaking at UNC-Chapel Hill, the upcoming 2019/20 Legacy | NOW season presents a full slate of new plays and classics that challenge us to see beyond what we’ve thought of as history’s edges and to explore the diverse ways in which we tell our history so as to open our hearts and minds to new perspectives.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the line-up for our Legacy | NOW season as an opportunity to celebrate, interrogate and renew the diverse and intersecting legacies that make us who we are,” says Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch. “Some of the brightest and most thought provoking theatre-makers of today like Karen Zacharías, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Jacqueline E. Lawton, and Heidi Armbruster will engage and collide with some foundational stories and storytellers in a season long conversation that not only recommits us to the legacy of social justice and humanitarianism PlayMakers inherited from the Carolina Playmakers 100 years ago, but equally to the tradition of producing world-class entertainment made right here in North Carolina by our exceptional resident company—one of the last resident theatre companies still operating in the country. With a season that includes two world premieres by astonishing women writers alongside PlayMakers first production of Julius Caesar in its history, 2019/20 is going to be full to the brim with great theatre.”
Subscription packages are available for purchase now, and renewing subscribers can secure their current seats for the new season through May 1. Single tickets go on sale June 11. Call (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org for information.
As PlayMakers celebrates 100 years of playmaking at UNC-Chapel Hill, the upcoming 2019/20 Legacy | NOW season presents a full slate of new plays and classics that challenge us to see beyond what we’ve thought of as history’s edges and to explore the diverse ways in which we tell our history so as to open our hearts and minds to new perspectives.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the line-up for our Legacy | NOW season as an opportunity to celebrate, interrogate and renew the diverse and intersecting legacies that make us who we are,” says Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch. “Some of the brightest and most thought provoking theatre-makers of today like Karen Zacharías, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Jacqueline E. Lawton, and Heidi Armbruster will engage and collide with some foundational stories and storytellers in a season long conversation that not only recommits us to the legacy of social justice and humanitarianism PlayMakers inherited from the Carolina Playmakers 100 years ago, but equally to the tradition of producing world-class entertainment made right here in North Carolina by our exceptional resident company—one of the last resident theatre companies still operating in the country. With a season that includes two world premieres by astonishing women writers alongside PlayMakers first production of Julius Caesar in its history, 2019/20 is going to be full to the brim with great theatre.”
Subscription packages are available for purchase now, and renewing subscribers can secure their current seats for the new season through May 1. Single tickets go on sale June 11. Call (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org for information.