Presenting the Stray Cat Theatre 2008-2009 Season

An Impending Rupture of the Belly
By Matt Pelfrey
Directed by Ron May

How far would YOU go to defend your family?
Haunting and gruesomely hilarious, An Impending Rupture of the Belly concerns Clay Stilts' desire to fortify his suburban home in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. His obsessive fear is augmented when a slowly escalating battle with a neighbor who refuses to keep his dog off of Clay’s lawn explodes in an impulsive act of violence. In one reckless moment, fear wins out, Clay's world spins ferociously out of control and all hell breaks loose. Stray Cat blasts open their season with this gripping new black comedy that captures the crippling anxiety of these uncertain times.

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A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant
By Kyle Jarrow
Directed by Gary Minyard

This holiday season, join us as a jubilant cast of children celebrate the controversial Church of Scientology in uplifting pageantry and song. The actual teachings of Scientology are explained and dissected against the candy-colored backdrop of a traditional nativity play. An ensemble cast of grade school children (no, we’re not kidding) portraying Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and other less starry Scientologists, tells the story of L. Ron Hubbard’s meteoric rise from struggling science fiction writer to supreme leader of a (highly-profitable) New Age religious empire. Avant-garde performance art and children's theatre meet in one of the funniest and most bewildering holiday shows – we guarantee – you will ever see.

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The Play About the Naked Guy
By David Bell
Directed by Damon Dering

Sex sells – but at what price? The Integrity Players, an off-off Broadway theatre company dedicated to faithfully presenting the 'lesser known' classics, is on the brink of shuttering. When a trio of artistically questionable though financially successful impresarios, responsible for such stage hits as 'Naked Boys Running Around Naked' and 'Drunk Frat Boys Making Porn', offer to help save their company, an epic and hilarious battle between commercialism and artistic allegiance ensues. Appropriately enough, we’re bringing in Nearly Naked’s Damon Dering to helm all the tasty, trashy fun of this merciless satire of the age old fight between art and commerce.

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columbinus
By The United States Theatre Project
Directed by Ron May

NIU. Virginia Tech. It would be nice to say Columbine was just “something that happened 10 years ago.” Sparked by the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, columbinus is a Laramie Project-style meeting of fact and fiction that illuminates the realities and horrors of adolescent culture by exploring the events surrounding the shootings. The play weaves together excerpts from discussions with parents, survivors and community leaders in Littleton as well as police evidence to bring to light the darkest recesses of American adolescence. A searing and heartbreaking examination of human behavior, columbinus documents the tragedy by asking more than just ‘Why?’, but perhaps more frighteningly, ‘Just how much can a kid endure before he snaps?’

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