Ampersand, the joint theatre organization between St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s, will be performing the Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde this season. The show opens February 4th (Thursday) and RESCHEDULED performances are February 10 and 11. The shows start each night at 7:30pm in McVey Theatre, but the doors open at 7:00pm. Tickets are $4 reserved and $5 at the door. St. Catherine’s upper school students are already paid for by the school.

Oscar Wilde’s satire about the British upper class and how they work very hard to make the trivial serious, and the serious trivial has entertained people for over one hundred years. The wit, the wordplay and the preposterous logic leaves the audience chuckling and laughing as four couples bumble their way through courtship.

Antigone by Jean Anouih

Jean Anouilh's play Antigone is a retelling of Sophocles' masterpiece, Antigone, a play studied in our English curriculum during the ninth grade. This play tells of Antigone, a young woman who defies the king, her uncle and his decree that no one is to bury her dead brother. This defiance is the catalyst for a chain of action and discussions among the characters about the meaning of life, death, happiness, love, honor and duty.

And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
A multimedia play that weaves videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors,
Eva Schloss and Ed Silverberg, with live actors, recreating scenes from
World War II. Part oral history, part action, part direct address, part
remembrance, this play has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in
productions worldwide.

Over the Tavern, by Tom Dudzick. The story follows the tumultuous life of the Pazinski family, who live above the tavern their family has owned for generations.  Each member of the family has issues to confront, but the play revolves around Rudy, the youngest member of the family, and his struggles with catechism. It is a play that can be enjoyed by all Middle and Upper School students and their families. 
A running theme in the play is the family’s love of spaghetti and the father’s failure to obtain it from a local restaurant.

The Imaginary Invalid
In Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid, the entire development of the action is centered on a hypochondriac – a man who loves to be sick and delights in his imagined illnesses.  He decides to marry off his daughter to a dolt of a doctor for free medical care while his second wife works to separate him from his money.  First performed in 1673, when Molière was already well known for his comedic attacks on the antics of doctors and other privileged snobs, this updated farce manages to poke fun at both the medical profession and its gullible patients while proving that love and laughter are the best medicine.

WASP
Written by: Steve Martin
Set in the 1950s, Martin presents his view of the traditional culture of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). With wit and hilarity, the play addresses the longings of each character for passion and intimacy in an atmosphere of emotional reticence and repression.

Poof!
Written by: Lynne Nottage
A housewife damns her abusive husband and he spontaneously combusts, leaving a pile of ash on the kitchen floor. Alternately funny and poignant, the play poses an interesting question: if you really get what you wish for, are you ready to deal with the consequences?"

A Rustle of Wings
Written by: Linda Eisenstein
A Rustle of Wings is a gentle story about a teen-age girl’s awakening to her self, love, and the pursuit of an authentic life.

On the Edge
Written by: Craig Pospisil
The story of a young man ready to jump off of a building for love, only to discover hope from a most unexpected encounter.

Infancy
Written by: Thornton Wilder
Infancy is Thornton Wilder’s take on how adults often act like children, and how children perhaps know much more than we think.