P.T.D. Production's Community Theater 2007 Season

Hazing the Monkey by Marcus Hennessy
-performance dates: March 22- 25 & 29-31
Roger Youngblood has been working on the assembly line at a tractor factory. When he applies for the Junior Manager Training Program, the selection process turns out to be more than he bargained for. He is put through the ringer, put on trial, challenged to defend his faith, and forced to confront the truth about his wife and his life in a series of absurd interviews that leave him unable to discern role playing from real events. Here is a fast paced, wild and crazy romp through the world of the working man. Funny, very very funny.

The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
-performance dates: June 14-17 & 21- 23
In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The play dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality of their condition a preordained future whose only imponderable is its exact length the three are attended and visited by family and close friends. Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize. “An important, touching and courageous play…Triumphantly turns up…Cristofer writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good play…” N.Y. Times.
“Extraordinary. An over whelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny.” Boston Globe.

Hollywood Arms
by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett
-performance dates: Sept. 20-23 & 27-29
Set in California in 1941 and 1951, Hollywood Arms is the funny and moving story of three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment, one block north of Hollywood Boulevard. The cast of characters include a tough, funny, yet tender pill popping Christian Scientist grandmother; a beautiful wide eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father; and a young girl whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it is a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams. It is moving, it is funny, and it is so worth seeing. Carol Burnett is well known for her comic genius as witnessed by millions for many years on The Carol Burnett Show. Now she and her daughter have joined together to bring us this wonderful moving play. Don’t miss it.

The Butler Did It, Again by Tim Kelly
Performance dates: Dec. 6-9 & 13-15
Publisher and socialite, Miss Maple rents a plantation house, in the frightening swamplands of Louisiana. She wants to introduce her latest literary discovery, Ruth Dice, who has written a first novel entitled Conversation with a Ghoul. Do to so, Miss Maple invites the cream of the crop of detective writers to the plantation. The list includes: Tough Chandler Marlowe, chic Manhattan couple Rick and Laura Carlyle, westerner Tony Tallchief, Louie Fan and gentle Father White. Ruth Dice has only contempt for the guests. Naturally, she’s the perfect candidate for murder. And murder there is! Who is killed? Who is the killer? Why was there a killing or more? It’s up to the detective writers to unravel the puzzle. Chills, thrills, alibis, clues, motives, and dazzling plot twists fly about the stage. Nothing is what it seems to be and you will need a scorecard to keep track of who’s who and what is what. Smoke and mirrors, fun and games-from start to finish. Bring a seat belt! Very funny stuff.