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The Zoo Story and Duck Variations at Thomaston Opera House
Thomaston Opera House, 158 Main St. in Thomaston presents The Zoo Story by Edward Albee and Duck Variations by David Mamet in the Opera House Arts Center on Friday and Saturday, March 14-15 at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m.
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee is directed by John Fabiani and features David Michaels of Waterbury as Jerry and Glenn R. Couture of Derby as Peter. A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo.
Duck Variations by David Mamet is directed by Keith Winegar and features Wayne Reimer of Waterbury as George and Jack Kearney of Woodbury as Emil. Two old men sit on a park bench and discuss ducks. We first meet Emil and George sitting on a park bench by a lake on the American East Coast, and there they stay, the variations consisting of fourteen snippets of their conversation, centered around the ducks before them. The play on the surface is a mundane dialogue between two old men on the edge of a lake in a major American Metropolis. Soon, however, the conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks and eventually reveals their feelings about friendship, death and reality.
Tickets are $15 in advance or $18 at the door, and can be reserved by calling the box office at 860-283-6250.
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