2009 Season

13th Annual Playwrights’ Festival
February 20 – March 8, 2009
Directed by Jeane Myers

Production Sponsor: First Federal

Winning plays of the 2008 One Act Play Competition sponsored by the Port Townsend Arts Commission receive premiere productions. KCPT’s commitment to developing works by emerging local playwrights continues during this 13th annual festival. Features Jefferson County artists: 6-time honoree Flip Wingrove, 6-time honoree Jack O’Connor and 2-time honoree James Daly.

Birnham Woods
Wendy MacLeod
April 10 – May 2, 2009
Directed by Denise Winter
Production Sponsor: Sport Townsend

In a small college town, Janice just wants something to happen. When her handsome colleague Kevin invites her husband to do some lucrative consulting for a mysterious organization, Janice sees her ticket out. But is it a global think tank or a cover for a terrorist network? And is Kevin more than just a colleague to Janice?

Wendy MacLeod is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and is the James E. Michael playwright-in-residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College. Her plays have premiered at NYC’s Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Rep, The Goodman and Steppenwolf in Chicago, and been performed all over the world. Wendy will visit Port Townsend as a guest artist and offer a playwright workshop.

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton
June 26 – July 19, 2009
Directed by David Hundhausen

Production Sponsor: Sirens Pub

Regarded as Joe Orton’s finest play, What the Butler Saw is considered today as a contemporary classic. Written in 1967, Orton’s last play was first presented in March 1969, a year and a half after his death. The title of the play implies voyeurism and has appalled and enraged certain audiences with its blatant sexual overtones, attacks on authority and conventional morality via its invitation to view other people’s sexuality and sexual identity as a voyeur. From the first minutes of this black comedy, the farce is unleashed with continuous shifts into sexual and psychological exploitation, blackmail and bribery.

“You know what psychiatrists are like, they take everything you say so seriously”. Joe Orton
 

Shakespeare in the Park:
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
August 7 - 23, 2009
Directed by Denise Winter
 

Once again, August will see Port Townsend’s family-friendly tradition return with Shakespeare in the Park. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest (if not his first) plays. Twin brothers separated in shipwreck 33 years earlier are reunited along with their twin servants. Combine slapstick, mistaken identities and farcical humor with ample puns and wordplay and you are in for a real treat this summer. Performed in beautiful Chetzemoka Park.

Scrooge: The Musical
Adapted by Leslie Bricusse
From Charles Dickens
November 27 – December 20, 2009
Directed by Denise Fleener

Book, lyrics and music by Leslie Bricusse, adapted from the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, this musical adaptation premiered in 1992. Dickens' timeless Christmas classic set to music is presented at the holiday season, to bring families and our surrounding communities together at the playhouse this year. This large cast musical is filled with ghosts, special effects and wonderfully original holiday music, including “Thank You Very Much, and “I Hate Christmas.”

General Admission is $15. Note that tickets for Friday and Saturday

evening performances of Scrooge The Musical are $18.
 

Season Tickets and FLEXpasses for the 2009 Season are no longer available for purchase.