‘Blisteringly funny’ comedies highlight the Yale Rep’s new season

Three world premieres and two classics will highlight the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2015–2016 season.
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A scene from "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht, staged at the Yale Repertory Theatre earlier this year.

Three world premieres and two classics will highlight the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2015–2016 season. 

The season line-up is as follows: 

Oct. 2-24 — “Indecent,” a world premiere written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel; directed by Rebecca Taichman. Inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s “The God of Vengeance,” this new play charts the history of an incendiary drama and the paths of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. “Indecent” was commissioned by Yale Rep and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is the recipient of a 2015 Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. 

Nov. 27-Dec. 19 — “peerless,” a world premiere by Jiehae Park; directed by Margot Bordelon. Described by organizers as “blisteringly funny,” this contemporary play follows ambitious twin sisters as they attempt to get into the college of their dreams. 

Jan. 29-Feb. 20 — “The Moors,” a world premiere by Jen Silverman; directed by Jackson Gay. In the bleak moors of England, two spinster sisters try to find a way to escape their miserable condition when a governess is summoned to their isolated home. Inspired (perhaps) by the lives and writings of the most famous sisters of 19th-century literature, the play is “absurdly funny” and coursing with a “distinctly contemporary, darkly comic sensibility,” say the organizers. 

March 25-April 16 — “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare; directed by Evan Yionoulis. Obie Award-winning resident director Evan Yionoulis will bring Shakespeare’s “dizzying romance” to Yale Rep for the first time. The production is Yale Rep’s 2015-2016 Will Power! production.

April 29-May 21 — “Happy Days” by Samuel Beckett; directed by James Bundy. Two-time Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest returns to Yale Rep in the role of Winnie in Beckett’s masterpiece. With her husband increasingly out of reach and the Earth itself threatening to swallow her whole, Winnie’s buoyant optimism shields her from the harsh glare of the inevitable in this “absurdly funny” and “boundlessly compassionate portrait of the human spirit,” according to the organizers. 

The Yale Repertory Theatre offers a variety of subscription packages for audiences to enjoy the entire season, starting at less than $35 per ticket for the general public and $14 for students. Subscriptions and season passes are available now online, by phone at 203-432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep box office, 1120 Chapel St. Individual and group tickets for the entire season will go on sale on August 31. Yale Repertory Theatre is sponsored in part by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

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