Artistic director Donovan Marley announced the upcoming season Jan. 13, and surprised the community by announcing he would retire at the end of the 2004-05 season.
Notably absent so far in the 04-05 season is a world premiere. DCTC has been committed to new works for many years; one more play has yet to be announced in the new season.
Denver audiences will be in for a discovery with the staging of Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, a lesser-known work by the author of The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. No director has been announced for it. Here's how DCTC describes the plot: "It is a warm June morning in St. Louis in the mid 1930s – a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But the hopelessly romantic Dorothea is home waiting for a phone call from her sometime beau, the principal of the high school where she teaches. She lives with the gregarious Bodey, her German roommate who wants to pair Dotty with her beer-drinking twin brother. Upstairs is Miss Gluck, a distraught neighbor whom Bodey comforts with coffee and crullers. Helena, a fellow teacher, with the 'eyes of a predatory bird,' calls to 'rescue' Dotty from her vulgar, common surroundings. This wonderfully etched portrait of four women will touch audiences with its tenderness, delight with its comic vision and inspire with its dreams of a better life."
DCTC, operating in a handful of state-of-the-art spaces in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, will present the following:
