STANFORD SUMMER THEATER (SST) is delighted to present AMY FREED's dazzling brand new satire "RESTORATION COMEDY" in a production directed by the playwright herself at Stanford's picturesque Pigott Theater (July 27 - August 13 2006, Thursdays through Sundays at 8 PM).
This loving and laugh-filled homage, based on plays originally staged in 1696 but now very 2006, uses the themes and style of the Restoration to create a thoroughly modern farce, one that skewers our own Puritanism, intolerance and hypocrisy with the razor-sharp edge of Wicked Wit. Featuring Bay Area stars LEITH BURKE, JENN ERDMANN, KAY KOSTOPOULOS and JEFFREY BIHR. To rival the deviance and delights of the period, SST inaugurates its own form of theatrical debauchery: Pay what you like for any performance! SST is now priceless!
RESTORATION COMEDY is part of the Stanford Summer Theater (SST) 2006 Festival 'WICKED WIT,' also featuring theatrical productions of Moliere's darkly comic "DON JUAN," (August 17 - 27, Thursdays through Sundays at 8 PM; no performance on Sunday, August 20) alongside a free film series, 'LICENSED TO THRILL,' (July 3 - August 21, Mondays at 7 PM) exploring Restoration wit and its underside. Join us in examining contemporary mores through the theatrical lens of the Restoration, when men and women matched their wits (and wigs), where decolletage exposed flaws in even the best of arguments, and outlandish artifice challenged nature to reveal itself for all it was worth. To rival the deviance and delights of the period, SST inaugurates its own form of theatrical debauchery: Pay what you like for any performance! SST is now priceless!