In November of 2009, BackStage Theatre Company kicks off its 10th Anniversary Season. In this powerful triad of complex plays, BackStage invites you to step inside a thematic series of doors. Through the light that spills through the cracks of the family room, the bedroom and the nursery doors, we will afford our audiences intimate glimpses into the lives of three very recognizable, very complicated families. It is our ultimate hope that as the lights go down on the final show of our 10th season, you might be able look around you and feel a little less alone in the dark.

• Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn
• Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright
• The Play About The Baby by Edward Albee

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by Wallace Shawn

Directed by Artistic Director Matthew Reeder

Opening Friday, November 20, 2009
November 20, 2009–December 20, 2009
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

BackStage Theatre Company begins its 10th Anniversary Season by asking you to step inside the home of a woman called Lemon. Lemon has a story to tell. What begins as a deceptively simple coming-of-age yarn about her seemingly ordinary family soon becomes a complex meditation on the persuasive power of intimacy. Written by one of the more controversial playwrights of the contemporary American theatre, Aunt Dan and Lemon is a both a mordant comedy and a chilling cautionary tale about the subversive nature of influence.

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by Craig Wright

Opening Friday, February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010–March 27, 2010
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

After years of maintaining a close, platonic friendship, David and Beth begin an inescapable love-affair with heartbreaking consequences. Through a series of theatrical, voyeuristic scenes which all take place on or around a single bed, we see the painfully intense unraveling of both troubled marriages and, eventually, the construction of a very fragile but authentic new beginning for everyone concerned. Written by one of the most promising young playwrights of this generation, Craig Wright's "Orange Flower Water" is an unsparing but ultimately hopeful examination of the unremitting need that humans beings have for one another.

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by Edward Albee

Directed by Artistic Director Matthew Reeder

Opening Friday, April 9, 2010
April 9, 2010–May 8, 2010
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

Two chairs stand in a private room inhabited by a gleefully naive couple whose youthful desire for each other is hardly interrupted by the coming of their first child. Soon, however, their playfully sexual exploits are bizarrely interrupted by a mysterious and nameless older couple who may (or may not) have sinister motives. Penned by one of America’s preeminent playwrights, The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in it’s high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children.

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