Season 13

Mobtown is terrified to bring you its Thirteenth Season! This year, we focus on ….. the Truth!

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

by Alan Ball — Sept. 24-Oct. 16
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, select Sundays at 3pm
During a grand wedding reception on the grounds of a Southern estate, five bridesmaids are holed up in an upstairs bedroom, determined to avoid the festivities at all costs. Written by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood, American Beauty), this comedy offers a frequently hilarious, sometimes touching, look at the intricacies of friendship and love.

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith — Jan. 14-Feb. 5
Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm, select Sundays at 3pm
The constraints of polite society are challenged by youthful desires in this classic Comedy of Manners by Oliver Goldsmith. Over the course of an evening practical jokes are played, identities are mistaken, and lovers conspire, spurring an absurd chain of events that will keep you laughing to the very end!

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

by Stephen Adly Guirgis — Mar. 25-Apr. 16
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, select Sundays at 3pm.
Divine mercy versus human free will. That is the issue when the eternal damnation of the Bible’s most notorious sinner is literally put on trial. Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’s voice, spoken in today’s street English, fluctuates between humorous, moving, shocking, elegant, and thought-provoking as it makes us question what faith truly means.
“This ain’t your grandmother’s Gospel”–The Village Voice.

Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

by Ben Jonson — June 17-Jul 9
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, select Sundays at 3pm
Morose has decided to get married and thus cut his nephew, Dauphine, out of his will. The problem? He can stand NO NOISE and must have a demure – and quiet – bride. Trouble is, he’s having trouble finding one. So Dauphine and his friend Truewit conspire to produce the eponymous Epicoene, just such a silent woman. When the musicians, a gaggle of women, Jack Daw and La Foole (two foolish knights), Cutbeard the barber dressed as a Doctor of Canon Law, and a quarreling Mr. and Mrs. Tom Otter “crash” the nuptials, will anyone survive the wedding day? And if so, will Dauphine get the money? Championed by John Dryden as “the pattern of a perfect play,” Epicoene was penned by Ben Jonson – the second best playwright of the 17th century.

And Running Throughout The Season…

The Mobtown Playwrights Group

Get in on the ground floor of three new plays. Attend readings of each work-in-progress, give feedback to the writer, and come back the following weekend to hear a revised draft. Then come back the following summer to see a full-scale production of one of the pieces developed at Mobtown. More details TBA.