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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No Place to Be Somebody (1973)
Old Times (1973)
Pinter’s only full-length play since “The Homecoming,” has been described by Clive Barnes of the New York Times as “a play to wander in, a play to luxuriate in. I am tempted to think of it as a great play.” It is vintage, true Pinter, in which a man and a woman compete for the man’s wife using the weapons of recollection to recreate “old times.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1973)
Dale Wasserman (“Man of LaMancha”) took Ken Kesey’s novel of the same name and made it into a sometimes chilling, sometimes boisterously funny melodrama that tells of a maverick who gets himself committed to an insane asylum, where he collides with the head nurse!
The Contractor (1973)
This play (like “The Changing Room”) has intrigued critics in London because of its deceptive, unique dramatic method. Storey constructs the play around the setting up and taking down of a tent for a wedding. Clive Barnes (N.Y. Times) wrote: “...it exerts the same fascination that makes passers-by stop in the street to watch construction workers this is a very funny play.”
A Conflict of Interest (1973)
Washington power politics pits the President against the Supreme Court to create a play that is exciting and timely.
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1973)
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter (1973)