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Tucked away in the same Tampa location for over 17 years, the Gorilla boasts an intimate, welcoming environment and an exciting season of live, professional theatre.
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Tucked away in the same Tampa location for over 17 years, the Gorilla boasts an intimate, welcoming environment and an exciting season of live, professional theatre.
This is a great time to renew your Gorilla Pass (or purchase one for the first time). Click here for further info!
Join us on Facebook.
- Case Number 346: Sarah Mayes
- The Gorilla Theatre Announces its 2010-2011 Season
- Teen Acting Classes at the Gorilla Theatre
CASE NUMBER 346: SARAH MAYES
By Chase Adin
Seven performances only! Another bonus play for Gorilla Theatre patrons!
Drawing on Film Noir sensibilities, this story centers around the private investigation of the death of a young woman. The Detective strives to recover his memory of the investigation, embarking on his 346th case... a case upon himself. Case Number 346: Sarah Mayes is a compelling new work combining dance, theatre and other art forms.
SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT – THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF)
By Donald Margulies
The true story of a Victorian fabulist!
Louis De Rougemont thrilled his readers with tales of his adventures and his life as king of a cannibal tribe in Northern Australia. In "Shipwrecked" - by award-winning playwright Donald Margulies - De Rougemont tells his story in a deft and highly theatrical narrative folded into a vaudevillian romp with radio theater overtones. Not to be missed!
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES!
Children FREE if you buy an e-ticket online before Sept 23 Conditions
"Margulies gives a sympathetic nod to the audacious autobiographer's creative overreach in SHIPWRECKED " —LA Times.
CHRISTMAS STOPPING
By James Rayfield
In a style reminiscent of the best of David Ives or Christopher Durang, James Rayfield's dark Christmas farce casts a humorous light on the commercialization of the Holidays. This is a great alternative to more common Christmas fare.
James Rayfield (playwright) is Artistic Director of the Gorilla Theatre's Young Dramatists' Project. He has been a theatre teacher for almost thirty years. He has published several plays including The Five Pound Sack, They Call Me Danny Brillo and Help Wanted. He has an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and studied acting with Viola Spolin in Los Angeles.
Special talkback sessions with the playwright will be scheduled during the run of the show.
THE LION IN WINTER
By James Goldman
A high stakes game of one-upmanship, infighting, and the politics of succession.
For sheer bloody-minded, backstabbing, double-crossing behavior, few families can beat the Plantagenets. King Henry II, having brought together England, Scotland, Wales, and a hefty chunk of France under his rule, has to leave it to someone capable of keeping it all intact. Henry is a master manipulator, powerful and charismatic, who favors his youngest son John for the throne. His sternest opposition comes from his quick-witted wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, who he keeps imprisoned for, among other things, attempting to lead a rebellion against him. Eleanor favors Richard, and will do whatever it takes to put him on the throne in John's place - or in Henry's, if necessary.
"A work of intelligence, astringent wit, and much theatrical skill."-The New York Times
SWEET STORM
By Scott Hudson
.. I knew I had done carved out what the ol' Hebrew prophet Samuel had once't carved in a stone. Ebenezer - "The Lord has helped me thus far." I knew Ruthie, right then and there you was mine. You were my Only. My only love, only kiss. - Bo
Scott Hudson's delightful Florida love story (which, early in its development, received a staged reading as part of the Gorilla Reading Series in 2008) returns to the Gorilla in a full production following its success in New York and its publication by Dramatists’ Play Service.
A special talkback session on the life cycle of new play development will be scheduled during the run of the show.
"A gentle wisp of a love story in Florida in 1960, [Sweet Storm] blends a fantastical setting with a longing for spiritual and carnal rapture, and by not straining to do too much, accomplishes more than it deserves to ... stays with you like the freshness following a summer cloudburst." – The New York Times
AN INAPPROPRIATE EVENING WITH KLAUS KINSKY
By Aubrey Hampton
Mesmerizing! Shocking! Outspoken! There's no holds barred when Klaus Kinski takes the stage and begins to talk.
Gorilla Theatre founder Aubrey Hampton's new play brings actor, director and writer Klaus Kinsky to the stage for an unforgettably Inappropriate evening. Shockingly brutal, surprisingly tender, Kinski is as haunting and seductive as the parts he played. There is nothing politically correct about Kinski, and he takes on the audience as he loved to do in coffee houses and beer joints.
Contains adult language of a sexual nature, obscene discussions, and inappropriate speeches which may be offensive to some people.
YOUNG DRAMATISTS’ PROJECT (YDP) '11
Five New Works By Prize-Winning Teen Playwrights
Always exciting and provocative, YDP is now in its eleventh year! Come see five new works by teen playwrights come to life on the Gorilla Theatre stage!
"Is there imaginative, innovative work coming from these teens? Might they eventually infuse the region with new talent? Yes and yes."- Creative Loafing.
THE GORILLA READING SERIES
The Gorilla Theatre continues to present staged readings of new works throughout the season. Dates/Times to be announced.