2011-12 Season
UA Arizona Repertory Theatre Presents
The Voice of the Prairie – September 11 – October 2, 2011 – Marroney Theatre
Hay Fever – October 9 – 30, 2011- Tornabene Theatre
The Secret Garden – November 6 – December 4, 2011- Marroney Theatre
Necessary Targets – February 5 – 26, 2012 – Tornabene Theatre
Julius Caesar – February 26 – March 25, 2012 – Marroney Theatre
Bat Boy: The Musical – April 8 – 29, 2012 – Tornabene Theatre
THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE
This pre-Depression, theatrical folk tale takes us back to radio’s early days when one voice could mesmerize an audience across the “magical ether.” Transporting seamlessly between 1895 and 1923, this story weaves together the homespun threads of Davey Quinn and his childhood antics with a spirited blind girl named Frankie. Davey, like his “Poppy” before him, is a “voice of the prairie” radio storyteller, who goes from place-to-place, sharing his tales of the country. Warm with American nostalgia and tender with clouded memories of a first love, this is a compelling, sweet story from a bygone time.
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HAY FEVER 
Meet the eccentric Bliss family: David, a narcissistic novelist, and Judith, a recently retired stage actress, plus their two, equally quirky children. In their world, reality can smoothly glide into fiction. However, the unsuspecting weekend guests who enter the peculiar world of the Blisses— a timid flapper, a fit boxer, a respectable diplomat, and a fashionable sophisticate—are repeatedly thrust into melodramatic scenarios wherein their hosts profess emotions and react to situations that do not truly exist. The comedic chaos that ensues is a laugh-out-loud riot.
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THE SECRET GARDEN
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden tells the story of Mary Lennox, a lonely, rich and spoiled girl who is sent to live with her uncle Archibald in Yorkshire after being orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India. Archibald casts a dark shadow over the manor, still grieving losses of his own. All appears grim until Mary discovers a secret garden that had once belonged to her Aunt Lily. With the help of new friends, Mary embarks on a journey to decipher the mystery of the garden, and to bring it back to life. This beautifully vibrant, musical tale reminds us about love, friendship and most of all, family.
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NECESSARY TARGETS 
Two American women in war-torn Bosnia – one, a New York City psychiatrist, and the other, a journalist who routinely embeds herself in war and trauma – attempt to help a group of female refugees during the immediate aftermath of the Yugoslavian Civil War. Based on playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with Bosnian women, this psychological drama protests war and violence against women. Haunting, empowering and unflinching, Necessary Targets explores the passion, pain, humor, and the humanity alive within war’s most undeserving victims. Adult themes and violence.
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JULIUS CAESAR
Julius Caesar’s growing ambition threatens the Republic, so the blades are out. Leaders are made and then sacrificed as alliances are formed and just as quickly shattered. Brutus is an honorable man who must navigate the treacherous floods that threaten to overrun Rome. Which of the factions are simply consumed by envy and a thirst for power and which are acting in Rome’s best interest? Shakespeare’s captivating political thriller is alive with assassination plots, murder and conspiracies as it asks the constant question: “Who decides what is best for their country?” Violence.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL 
When a half-bat, half-human boy is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia, a family takes him in to raise him as one of their own and names him Edgar. Ripped from the 1992 headlines of The Weekly World News, this satirical musical tells the astonishing story of Edgar’s struggle to find a place in a world that snubs him, and the love that can create both foolishness and miracles. Comical, yet brutally honest and tragic, Bat Boy questions how love is possible for someone so different and how we all seek out our own place in life. Adult themes and violence.
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