2010 Mulford Repertory Theater Season

"Sylvia," August 17-23; September 2,3 &5 at 7:30 pm
"All in the Timing," August 24-September 1 at 7:30 pm
General Admission: $20 Adults, $15 Seniors and Students
Mulford Farm, 10 James Lane, East Hampton

An ensemble of five talented actors under the direction of Kate Mueth presents two works in repertory: ‘Sylvia,’ a light-hearted comedy by A.R. Gurney, and ‘All in the Timing,’ five one-act plays by David Ives.

A.R. Gurney’s ‘Sylvia,’ is a whimsical satire on a middle-class mid-life marriage. The husband has his mid-life crisis, not through an affair or a sailboat, but through a stray dog. He brings the dog home and his wife tries to put her foot down: the quintessential manifestation of marital strife and the fifty-percent American divorce rate, illustrated with touches of color and humor that make the production light-hearted and hilarious. ‘Sylvia’ takes a couple’s argument and gives the audience a good look – and a good laugh – at middle-class American life and the people stuck in it.

In David Ives’ ‘Sure Thing,’ a man and woman meet in a cafe and are saved from each conversational blunder by an off-stage bell, beginning again from the dead ends on the way to falling in love. In ‘Words, Words, Words,’ three captive monkeys named Swift, Milton and Kafka test an academic premise that their random pecking at typewriters will eventually produce Hamlet, while engaging in wildly uninhibited conversation. In Universal Language, a young woman with a stutter enrolls in speech lessons with a con man promoting Unamunda, an absurd language of brand names and familiar place names (“Harvard U” for “How are you?” and “Velcro” for “You’re welcome”) and demonstrates that “language is the opposite of loneliness” by finding true love. ‘Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread’ is a musical vignette and parody of the celebrated composer’s style, as he has a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. ‘The Philadelphia’ presents a young man who discovers in a diner that what he thought was an ordinary bad day is actually a metaphysical black hole in which all his simplest desires are maddeningly frustrated.

Seating is limited and advance ticketing is strongly recommended.
Please call (631)324-6850 for tickets.