June 26 - July 13
Enigma Variations
By Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Translated by Jeremy Sams

Directed by GSC Artistic Associate David Zoffoli

"...QUIRKY AND DELIGHTFUL... US RIVETED THROUGHOUT WITH REVELATIONS AND REVERSALS..." - LA Weekly

Journalist Erik Larsen is offered an unprecedented interview with Abel Znorko, the lager than life author and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature. This beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a dual and sometimes a duet, but never what it appears to
be.

 Set Designer:
 Jenna McFarland Lord

 Costume Designer:
 Linda Sarver

 Lighting Designer:
 Russ Swift

  Tom Markus

July 17 - August 3
Going to St. Ives
By Lee Blessing

Directed by Eric Engel

Featuring
Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse
and
Elliot Norton Award winner Jacqui Parker

"SPECTACULAR...EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY ENGROSSING...DAZZLING..."
- Philadelphia City Paper

The lives of two powerful women, an affluent English doctor and the mother of an African dictator, become irrevocably intertwined in this
captivating juxtaposition of black and white, order and chaos, heroism and hell.

 Set Designer:
 Jenna McFarland Lord

Lighting Designer:
 Russ Swift

 Production Stage Manager:
 Maureen Lane

 Assistant to the Director:
 Rebecca Price


August 7 - August 24
Doubt, A Parable

By Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Eric Engel
Featuring Nancy E. Carroll and Lewis D. Wheeler

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Play.

This riveting morality play about events that may or may not have taken place in a 1964 Bronx convent and refectory comes to Gloucester
in a production starring Elliot Norton Award winner Nancy Caroll of GSC's Collected Stories and My Old Lady and Lewis D. Wheeler from
A.R.T.'s No Man's Land.

 Set Designer:
 Jenna McFarland Lord

 Lighting Designer:
 Russ Swift

 Production Stage Manager:
 Marsha Smith

August 28 - September 14
The Woman in Black
A ghost play

By Stephen Malatratt based on the novel by Susan Hill

Directed by Karen McDonald of the American Repertory Theatre
Featuring Steven Barkhimer and Shelley Bolman

"Provides a pleasurable ripple of fear down one's spine and an uncomfortable lurch in the pit of one's stomach." - Time Out

A lawyer harboring a wrenching fear and an actor hired to help him exorcise his tale take you on a journey to the secret-filled marshes
of Nine Lives Causeway.

 Set Designer:
 David Reynoso

 Costume Designer:
 David Reynoso

 Lighting Designer:
 Russ Swift

 Sound Designer:
 David Remedios

 Production Stage Manager:
 Katherine Shea

 NEW PLAY READING SERIES

On the following Sunday evenings at 7PM
Each reading to be followed by a discussion.
Suggested Donation $20

 July 6
 The Threshing Floor
 By James Ijames
 Directed by Scott Edmiston

 Performed by James Ijames

 Based on the life and ideas of American writer and civil rights activist, James Baldwin. Mr. IJames performance in GSC's Ponies was
acclaimed as one of the best of the 2007 season.

 

**July 27
 Sow and Weep
 By Nitzan Halperin
 Directed by Judy Braha**

 Cast includes Nancy E. Carroll and Anne Gottlieb
 A Palestinian law student and an Israeli peace activist must decide how to honor their families, their culture and their own beliefs in
this intimate and unconventional exploration of the middle-eastconflict.

 August 17
 The Hotel Plays

 By Israel Horovitz
 Directed by Mr. Horovitz

 Cast includes Ted Reinstein of WCVB TV's "Chronicle"

Six new postage stamp plays all with Horovitz's trademark blend of comedy and drama.

 September 7
 His Master's Voice
 By Frederic Kimball

 Directed by David Wheeler

 Cast includes Max Wright, Lisa Richards and Lewis D. Wheeler

 A family tries everything, including a beautiful Romanian cellist, to lure their engineer father out of his basement laboratory. Culture,
religion and science collide in this poignant family comedy.

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