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Hubert Henry Davies's

Captain Drew on Leave

It is Summer 1905, and Captain Drew finds himself on leave from the Royal Navy, looking for a bit of romantic adventure. He lands in a totally unexpected situation after meeting Martha Moxon, wife of a local industrialist. Hubert Henry Davies, creator of Quotidian’s Spring 2008 success The Mollusc, applied his same gentle, hilarious touch to this romantic comedy that will also touch your heart.

Directed by: Jack Sbarbori

Featuring: Dan Corey, David Dubov, Robert Herbertson, Steve LaRocque, Stephanie Mumford, and Dani Nolan.

July 10 – August 9, 2009

QTC Announces its 2009-2010 Season

Conor McPherson’s

PORT AUTHORITY

October 23 – November 22, 2009

The Area Premiere of a tale of the missed opportunities and lost loves of three generations of Dublin men. This play received its New York Premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2008.

…a haunting fugue on passive lives and loves that might have been. …as in Mr. McPherson’s best work, this play is steeped in a deeper symmetry, rooted in the ineffable within the everyday. –Ben Brantley, New York Times

Horton Foote’s

The Trip to Bountiful

April 16 – May 16, 2010

The Area Premiere of the revised version of Horton Foote’s most famous play which appeared at New York’s Signature Theatre in 2005. Originally a 1953 teleplay featuring Lillian Gish as Carrie Watts, this work has been in production throughout the country ever since. Foote’s 1985 screen adaptation resulted in an Academy Award for Geraldine Page.

Tennessee Williams’

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

July 9 – August 8, 2010

Set in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties on a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. This delightful play, featuring four of Williams’ most engaging female characters, skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through “the long run of life.”

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In Loving Memory

Horton Foote passed away on March 4th, 2009, in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was hard at work preparing his epic Orphans’ Home Cycle for production at Hartford Stage and Manhattan’s Signature Theatre next season.

In his 92 years on this earth, Horton enriched American drama with his unique insight into the souls of common men and women living and dying in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas. We are so pleased to have had Mr. Foote serve as an Honorary Member of our Board of Directors, and honored to have presented nine of his plays since 1998, including two de facto premieres, through his kind generosity.

The Quotidian Theatre dedicates its April 2010 production of The Trip to Bountiful to the memory of this sweet, gentle, talented man, whose words will live on as long as plays are performed in this country.

-Jack Sbarbori

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DUBLIN CAROL A 'BEST' PICK FOR 2008!

Our November/December production of Dublin Carol was selected one of the Ten Best Shows of the Year by Examiner.com. Here's the full story.

Also, Doug Krentzlin at Examiner.com chose Quotidian as one of the Ten Best small theater bargains in the area.

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Performance Times Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m., with an added Saturday 2 p.m. matinee on the final weekend of each production.

Added Matinee
Added Saturday 2 p.m. matinee on the final weekend of each production.

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DUBLIN CAROL

by Conor McPherson

November 14 – December 14, 2008

It is Christmas Eve in Dublin and assistant funeral director John Plunkett is no Scrooge, but he has a lot to consider about his past, present, and future. His alcohol-clouded life has caused great damage to himself and those close to him. Conor McPherson describes Plunkett’s last chance with the same compassion and unsentimental clarity seen in The Weir, Shining City, and The Seafarer.

Directed by Jack Sbarbori

MONDAY EVENING 1942

by Steve LaRocque

April 17 – May 17, 2009

A father’s painful good-bye with his only daughter before she leaves home to join the Army in World War II is the focus of this World Premiere drama. The farewell takes place against the backdrop of the 1942 baseball All-Star Game at the Polo Grounds and a city-wide air raid drill that included a complete blackout of New York City.

Written and Directed by Steve LaRocque

Featuring: Lisa Hawkins, Sue Holliday, Ted Schneider

CAPTAIN DREW ON LEAVE

by Hubert Henry Davies

July 10 – August 9, 2009

Directed by Jack Sbarbori

Featuring: Daniel Corey, David Dubov, Robert Herbertson, Steve LaRocque, Dani Nolan, Stephanie Mumford

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...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -- George Elliot Middlemarch

The Quotidian Theatre Company was formed in 1998 with the goal of producing plays by Anton Chekhov, Horton Foote, and other realistic or impressionistic writers, in the spare, understated style intended by the playwrights. Learn more about Quotidian.

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