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2012-2013 SEASON
Our Season
Walden Theatre's main-stage season of plays features actors enrolled in our Conservatory Program. For enrollment information for youth ages 8-18, please visit the Programs/Classes page of the website.
All productions at Walden Theatre
1123 Payne Street, Louisville 40204
unless otherwise noted below.
2012-2013 SEASON Performances
Plays, dates, and venues are subject to change.

  • Summer Brave

    by William Inge
    directed by Charlie Sexton
    Sept. 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22

  • A handsome, rough-hewn stranger wheels into 1950s Kansas, stirring up gossip and inspiring young love as the town prepares for its Labor Day feast in Inge’s thoughtful revision of his Pulitzer-winning romantic comedy Picnic.


  • The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus
    adapted and directed by Julane Havens
    Oct. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20

  • Agamemnon’s return from the Trojan War triggers betrayal & murder in his family – even the gods are taking sides. Can the cycle of bloody retribution be remedied by a new kind of justice?


  • YOUNG COMPANY PRODUCTION
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    by Christopher Cartmill, adapted from the story by Washington Irving
    directed by Brian Hinds
    Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2

  • Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane has a taste for Gothic stories and a frightful imagination to match. But one night, riding home from a party, the harrowing story of the Headless Horseman becomes all too real. Can Ichabod keep his head in this spooky seasonal classic?


  • SLANT CULTURE SERIES
    Salvation Road

    by D.W. Gregory
    directed by Alec Volz
    Nov. 9, 11, 15 @ 7:30
    Nov. 10 @ 5:00 Nove. 17, 18 @ 5:30

  • Denise abandons school & family to take up with a charismatic preacher – leaving a confused brother behind seeking answers. What makes a smart young woman sacrifice a promising future for blind faith?


  • FALL SHOWCASES WEEK

    Improv, Studio, and Apprentice Classes
    Dec. 10-15


  • YUM! FAMILY SERIES
    Great Expectations

    by Nick Omerod & Declan Donnellan
    adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
    directed by Alec Volz
    Jan. 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26

  • Pip, a destitute orphan, is taken in by a wealthy recluse and her beautiful, cold-hearted daughter. Though he strives to be a proper English gentleman, corruption and arrogance threaten to topple Pip’s precarious aspirations.


  • Young Playwrights Festival 2013

    Various Directors
    Feb. 7, 8, 9

  • A fully-produced Festival of short plays celebrating the talents of Walden Theatre’s student playwrights.


  • Quilters

    by Barbara Damashek & Molly Newman
    directed by Hallie Dizdarevic
    Feb. 28, March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9

  • Pioneer women stitch together their accumulated experiences of life, work, and womanhood on the American frontier in this big-hearted patchwork of vignettes and song.


  • In Celebration of Shakespeare Studio Showcase
  • Why Shakespeare? Apprentice Showcase

    mid- to late-April (dates under review, will be reposted soon)


  • Young American Shakespeare Festival

    May 9-19
    • The Tempest
      by William Shakespeare
      directed by Julane Havens
      After years of isolation on a remote, magical island with his daughter Miranda, Prospero summons a spectacular storm to sweep his enemies ashore. Will he be a thrall to his own sorcerous vengeance?
      May 10 @ 7:30pm
      May 12 @ 7:30pm
      May 15 @ 7:30pm
      May 18 @ 7:30pm
      May 19 @ 2:00pm

    • Two Gentlemen of Verona
      by William Shakespeare
      directed by J. Barrett Cooper
      Valentine and his self-serving friend Proteus are fools in love with Sylvia. As they vie for her affection, one is banished as an outlaw and the other is spied upon by a jilted lover disguised as his page. Will either man get the girl – any girl – in this unlikeliest of buddy comedies?
      May 9 @ 7:30pm,
      May 11 @ 7:30pm
      May 13 @ 7:30pm
      May 16 @ 7:30pm
      May 18 @ 2:00pm

    • The Liar
      by Pierre Corneille, adapted by David Ives
      directed by Charlie Sexton
      he motto “the unimagined life is not worth living” drives Dorante into a hysterical high-wire act of confabulation as he lies his way into – and out of, and into – trouble in this agile-tongued adaptation of a classic French comedy.
      May 11 @ 2:00pm
      May 12 @ 2:00pm
      May 14 @ 7:30pm
      May 17 @ 7:30pm
      May 19 @ 7:30pm

Full details and a synopsis for each play coming soon.

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