by Mary Zimmerman.

Loading Dock Theater
March 21 – April 6, 2008

Love, Transformation and Coming Home

“Ancient myths are really not about someone going out but someone trying to get home, like Odysseus coming back from exile. It’s the story of being taken away from where we think our home is; it’s like being taken from ourselves. This play depicts many different journeys home. Sometimes, home is not where it was originally expected. Sometimes, it’s a long and arduous journey. Sometimes, we have only the memory of home and wholeness. But ultimately, our heart, our love, and our home are inexorably intertwined. Sometimes this moment of metamorphoses can be so excruciating but then it can produce something new. As individuals and as a people, we’ve suffered incredible disasters and transforming events, and yet the story goes on, the narrative goes on. Humans have always liked to tell stories, and stories keep continuing. Narrative always continues. Even though we die, these stories continue and tie all of us together in our human experience. Life equals change, it equals loss. And you have to embrace it. The entire play is about love and its effect on our every day lives; its magical, transformative quality.”

- From Bill Moyer’s interview with Mary Zimmerman for NOW, 3/22/02 [click for more information...]

by Pam Gems.

Loading Dock Theater
September 22 – October 7, 2007

Londoner Pam Gems (1925- ) turned to playwriting after bringing up four children. She was involved with the Women’s Theatre Group at the Almost Free Theater and her first great West End success came with Dusa, Fish, Stas & Vi, a feminist study of four women rooming together in a London flat, now regarded as an historic icon of early feminism. One of the seminal works of the Women’s Theatre Group in the 1970′s, Gems’ groundbreaking play was an early example of a play using the fast cutting style of television to excite a new audience looking for contemporary relevance in the theatre. It contrasts the lives of four young women: the middle class politico, the artist and young mother, the physiotherapist and ‘hostess’ and the adolescent waif. Gems weaves a tale with originality and passion which does not fight shy of the grim reality of life in London whilst acknowledging the humor of women’s struggle. [click for more information...]

by Suzan-Lori Parks.

Loading Dock Theater
September 29, 2007

Week 46: The Plays, The Players

On November 13, 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365 Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are very short, less than a page. Others last forever. [click for more information...]

by Sam L. Landman & Matthew Glover.

Loading Dock Theater
May 4 – May 19, 2007

Two roommates. On a couch. Drinking Tab. No subtext. No growth. No future. Think Waiting for Godot meets Reality Bites. [click for more information...]

by Doug Wright.

Loading Dock Theater
April 28 – May 20, 2007

Played out in the Marquis de Sade’s final days at Charenton Asylum, Quills explores the boundaries of artistic expression, the dangers of censorship, and the need to create, procreate, and annihilate within structured society. [click for more information...]