from our friends at Arizona Theatre Matters:
Arizona Theatre Matters today announced the launch of their 10th Anniversary Season on the heels of the unqualified success of the When Churchyards Yawn reading at the Potentialist Workshop for the world-renowned ARTOWN festival.
“We had a full house,” said playwright and ATM Artistic Director, Jeanmarie Simpson. “It was great fun,” she continued, “opening up to live audiences again - being together in a room, sharing the story, feeling the laughter and visceral response, engaging afterwards in discussion and food and drink. The experience of gathering around original art making is one I bet we’ll never again take for granted.”
The non-profit company performs in both Arizona and Nevada and is now making all programming universally accessible via their YouTube channel.
ATM’s 2021/22 season is a celebration of the aesthetic imprint of Arizona Theatre Matters. Each play is written or adapted by ATM’s founding artistic director, Jeanmarie Simpson, and each production serves as a testament to the resilience of the company.
“This last year has taught us all how lucky we are to be a part of one another’s lives,” Simpson said, “and, most especially, a part of yours.”
THE SEASON
PINEAPPLE AND OTHER OPTIONS
by Jeanmarie Simpson
Drenching rain pummels Nimipuu County as Helen, an idealistic middle-aged American History educator, sits alone in her kitchen recovering from a double mastectomy and looking at a pile of bills and an employment termination letter. What makes more sense than suicide? Newly retired social worker and rookie crisis hotline volunteer, AJ sits alone in the office desperate to save Helen from herself. As Helen slips between the worlds after eating a huge assortment of pills, Elizabeth “Betsy” Pennington greets Helen and takes her on a journey designed to convince her to return and invent a new kind of educational model. Pineapple and Other Options braids the stories of three women into a – literally – constructive theatrical experience.
WHEN CHURCHYARDS YAWN
by Jeanmarie Simpson
All the dead Hamlet characters have graduated from Limbo to Purgatory. Seems there’s been a bit of a backlog. Hamlet Senior is ancient and over it. Polonius is befuddled, as ever. Rosencrantz feels like a nitwit, Guildenstern blames Rosencrantz. Ophelia is innocent and furious, Gertrude is spitting mad. Claudius is contrite to the point that you want to smack him. When Churchyards Yawn asks the question – will all these fatally flawed characters ever make it to Heaven?
KIDS CAMP – ages 5-17
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
A shipload of sentimental pirates, gaggles of giggling maidens, and a band of bumbling policemen bring fun and sparkle to one of the most charmingly silly operettas ever to grace the stage. Frederic, our hero, is bound by duty and must abandon his newfound love, Mabel, to join the pirate trade. Alas and alack! Must he truly lose Mabel, or can he find a way out of this frivolous conundrum?
Season Tickets include reserved seating, complimentary refreshments including cocktails and meetings with the company. Full season pass $100 ADULTS $75 Students.
All others Pay What You Can at the door, and bring a non-perishable food item for St. Mary’s Food Bank.
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