Posts Tagged ‘Family Secrets’

A Secret Is Out . . .

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

It’s true, we’ve been trying to keep a few secrets.  But secrets stay secret for only so long.  People talk.  Word gets out.  So.  As promised, it’s time to let you in on the first of many secrets!  The rest is going to stay hush-hush . . . at least, for a little while.

Richard Greenberg is one of America’s most prolific, incisive and transporting contemporary playwrights.  His 1998 play, Three Days of Rain, asks the question, can an entire life be a secret?  In this mysterious and funny play, an estranged brother and sister discover a cryptic journal that appears to be written by their enigmatic father, a famous architect.  The journal seems to open a door to the life of the secretive man, and yet it appears to be written in code.  It is just another secret.  This beautifully written and probing comedy raises the question of parental legacy, and asks us if we can ever really understand the lives of those who came before us.  We are thrilled to announce this wonderful play as a part of our 2010-2011 season of Family Secrets, and we can’t keep it to ourselves any longer!


We tried to hold onto that as long as possible to maintain the sight unseen price for our season subscription.  But alas, a secret has leaked and we have confirmed it.  So that means that the price of the subscription price has gone up!


So.  As it stands, the new price for our 2010-2011 Subscription is now $27, for two exciting productions!  That’s still only $13.50 per play!


Click here to buy a subscription to our 2010-2011 Season!  Enter the discount code THREEDAYS when prompted to get your discount.


But that price won’t last for long.  As soon as another secret is revealed, the price will go up again.  There’s a lot of whispering going on.  So now’s your chance.



It’s a Secret . . .

Monday, May 17th, 2010

We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

Does your family have a secret?

I bet it does . . .

Some secrets are discovered, some are revealed and some secrets actually die with the keeper.  But all families have them.  Some of these secrets are personal; things that a parent does not want the children to know about, for instance.  Some secrets are collective; a detail, or an event or a circumstance that the entire family is guarding from the outside world.  Whether personal or collective, a secret is a secret, and we guard them sometimes as closely as we guard our lives.  And the effect of a secret in a family can have a diverse effect on the tribe.  A secret can protect a family and it can also tear a family apart.

But humans have also demonstrated that we have a strangely obsessive attraction to the secrets in the lives of others.  The popularity of tabloid and reality television in the last decade prove that this human curiosity is not fading, not in any way.  The truth about humans:  we obsess over the skeletons in other people’s closets.

So.  Now to the fun part.

BackStage Theatre Company has a family secret.  And we are going to reveal it you.  Eventually.

For right now . . . we will drop a few hints.  Firstly, the secret itself is about our upcoming 2010-2011 Season.  Next season features an extraordinary pair of plays, a Chicago premiere and a reexamination of a contemporary classic . . . both revolving around the idea of family secrets.

And that’s all we’re saying . . . for now.

But in the meantime, we are making our 2010-2011 subscriptions available to you, and in honor of the theme of Family Secrets, we are keeping the delicious details to ourselves.  If you’d like to purchase one of our Secret Subscriptions, you can follow this link right here and with the code word SECRET, you can buy a subscription to our 2010-2011 Season sight unseen . . . at a 33 percent discount.  And you will be the first to know the details of the Secret Season as they are uncovered.

But here’s the thing.  We cannot hold onto this secret forever.  People talk.  Details leak.  We know this.  So, each time a piece of the secret is revealed, the price will go up.  And if you wait until the secret season is fully revealed, you will pay our normal subscription price.

So.  What are you waiting for?  Be the first to know.

And stay tuned . . .