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PACE — The Panhandle Community Theatre is busy preparing for its 2019 season with five well known, award winning plays.
The Dixie Swim Club: written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten and directed by Gail Ready
Show dates: Jan 31- Feb. 3 and Feb. 7 – 10
This play revolves around five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives.
Rabbit Hole: written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Mary Jane Dunlop
Show dates: March 28-31 and April 4-7
According to their website, this play is the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play deals with the ways family members survive a major loss, and includes comedy as well as tragedy. It has been performed on Broadway and been adapted into a film in 2010 starring Nicole Kidman.
Plaza Suite: written by Neil Simon and directed by Jamie Jones, Gail Ready and Jerry Valanzano.
Show dates: May 23-26 and May 30- June 2
The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. According to the website Broadway.com, the play had a run on Broadway in 1968. It has been adapted into film three times in 1971, 1982 and in 1987 starring Carol Burnett.
Three Fables: adapted from Aesop by Robert R. Lehan and directed by Brittany Leist
Show dates: Aug. 1-4 and 8-11
This play incorporates the stories of The Fox and the Crow, The Fox and the Grapes, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing and The Sun and the Wind.
The Haunting of Hill House: written by F. Andrew Leslie based on the novel by Shirley Jackson and directed by Bob Monson
Show dates: Sept. 26-29 and Oct. 3-6.
Hill House is a mansion in a location that is never specified but is between many hills, built by long-deceased Hugh Crain. The story concerns four main characters: Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural; Eleanor Vance, a shy young woman who resents having lived as a recluse caring for her demanding disabled mother; Theodora, a flamboyant, bohemian artist and Luke Sanderson, the young heir to Hill House, who is host to the others. According to a web search, in addition to the play, the book has been adapted into two films in 1963 and 1999.
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This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Panhandle Community Theatre 2019 Season