Self Torture and Strenuous Excercise

Searching for optimism in her darkest hour, Credo is a woman’s declaration of faith, or what’s left of it.

A graduate of Boston University, Craig Lucas is the author of Missing Persons (1995 Drama Desk nominee for Best Play), Reckless, Blue Window, and Prelude to a Kiss. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, the George and Elisabeth Marton Award, three DramaLogue Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Obie Award. Prelude to a Kiss received a Tony nomination for Best Play during the 1989-1990 season.

An irreverent dissection of the media stranglehold on the mass mind, The Original Last Wish Baby takes fluffy news casting, sympathy mongering, and the "right to life" movement to their logical conclusions and well beyond.

Before adapting his comix to the stage, Seebring published a series of underground comic books as well as an illustrated full-color travel guide to fictitious lands that was published, strangely enough, by a magazine catering to singles. Seebring’s other works for the stage include The Geldings and Das Wolfkin.

In Kondoleon’s brilliantly imaginative black comedy, two couples are caught in a web of infidelity, loneliness, desire, and denial. As Alvin retreats further and further into his world of vegetables in a quest to understand "God’s great recipe," Bethany, Carl, and Adel are left fighting their hearts’ battles on the literary plain.

Winner of the 1983 Obie Award as most promising young playwright of the season, Harry Kondoleon graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He held Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships. "The strength from which all else flows is the passion for love, the unquenchable lust, the yearning for connection with the Other that defines the language and the form and the almost tropical feverishness of Kondoleon’s plays." Don Shewey, The Village Voice.

Directed by Alexander Franklin. Alexander recently directed Joe Orton’s Funeral Games for Unseen Theatre, and he directed the Boston premiere of Durang Durang (including For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls) for the Harvard Summer Theatre Company in 1995. He was Assistant Director for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Copley Square, and prior to that he was Assistant Director of the Nora Theatre Company’s production of Joe Orton’s Loot and Richard Nelson’s Life Sentences. While a student at Harvard, Alexander was involved in over 40 productions, directing nine including Charles Busch’s Sleeping Beauty or Coma and Christopher Durang’s Titanic, on the Mainstage of the Loeb Drama Center.