Bonjour,
We’re excited to tell you about our next two productions: “The Homecoming” by Harold Pinter, and “Antigone” in a new adaptation done by our friend Neil LaBute. “The Homecoming” will be starting in May followed by “Antigone” in August. Make your plans now to be with us.
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
May 9 – June 15, 2025
Fridays, Saturdays 8:00pm; Sundays 4:00pm
One of Nobel-prize winning playwright Harold Pinter’s greatest plays, this darkly comic, hauntingly ambiguous, play follows a family of men in a seedy house in North London: Max, the aging, crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam, and two of Max’s three sons, both unmarried, Lenny, a small-time pimp and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Returning to this oppressive household, one simmering with bottled-up anger and barely concealed hatreds, is the oldest son Teddy, now a successful professor of philosophy in America. After six years abroad, he brings his wife Ruth, to meet the family for the first time but the visit quickly turns into an ominous game of cat and mouse. In this unsettling drama of insidious manipulation, subtle power struggles, and sexual game-playing, nothing is quite what it seems.
Antigone adapted by Neil LaBute
August 8 – September 14, 2025
Fridays, Saturdays 8:00pm; Sundays 4:00pm
What is the price you pay to stand up to autocracy? During the Nazi occupation of Paris, French author Jean Anouilh created a version of the classic Greek tragedy that spoke to his historical moment. Here, acclaimed author Neil LaBute adapts Anouilh’s text to allow it to speak to our own. Antigone, a courageous young woman, puts her life on the line to challenge the rule of Creon, her tyrannical uncle, insisting on the proper burial of her brother Polynices, who Creon has declared a traitor. LaBute’s version, like those before it, pays testimony to those who refuse to bow down to dictatorship, who refuse to sacrifice their own integrity no matter the cost to themselves.
A New Pledge of $20,000!
As we told you last week, a very special patron (who wishes to remain anonymous) has made an incredibly generous pledge of $20,000 to support the work at City Garage! Can you help us match this amount by the end of the summer so that we can fully benefit from our angel’s wonderful pledge? Thanks to these kind people below, we’ve already raised $1,175!
Roger Director
Joanne Leslie
Ricky Lee Grove
Ann Bronston
Tom Lasky
Anonymous
Steve Diskin
Please join them. Any amount, small or large is welcome!
Merci, and see you soon at City Garage!
Frederique & Archie & Charles
