The decade of the 2020s started with ACT being dark for the entire 2020 mainstage season. While closed
for the pandemic, there was a change in leadership as Anita Shah moved in as Managing Director. The
first play after the pandemic closure was Hotter Than Egypt, written by Core Company member Yussef el Guindi
- a world premiere.
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Celebration (1969)
Sometimes think there's nothing left to celebrate? Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, American co-authors of 'The Fantasticks' offer a resounding affirmation of life in this new, currently-on-Broadway musical
The Homecoming (1969)
Human relationships are the most complicated man-made invention. England's Harold Pinter examines a husband, wife, the husband's father and brothers in an incredible cats-cradle of confrontations.
Rhinoceros (1969)
Does the conformist always become part of the herd? French/Romanian Eugene Ionesco looks at conformity with hilarity and perception as a man struggles against becoming a RHINOCEROS.
Inadmissible Evidence (1969)
English playwright John Osborne examines a crisis.. in personal identity as everything in a man's life falls apart at once. Who and what is the man that is left?
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1969)
Are the truly insane those inside or outside asylum walls? Berlin-born Peter Weiss probes the philosophy of freedom and revolution in an astounding fashion in MARAT/SADE.
Philadelphia, Here I Come (1969)
The generation gap exists in Ireland, too, and Dublin's Brian Friel treats it with great humor and compassion in a play that contrasts the inner and outer personalities of a young man leaving home for the first time.
Crabdance (1969)
In this McLuhan age it is increasingly difficult to know the difference between reality and fantasy; a problem explored excitingly by Canada's Beverly Simons.