The fall of 2000 brings with it three important occasions for Yale Repertory Theatre.
Next season represents a unique combination of milestones and celebrations.
The Anniversary Season is scheduled to begin Sept. 14 with Mump and Smoot in Something Else with Zug , a series of humorous sketches ranging from manic to the macabre, all performed in Ummonian, an invented language native to Mump and Smoot's universe, Umino, and the tongue of the clowns' god, Ummo. In Rice Boy , a young boy named Tommy sits in a tree overlooking a world of memories and cross-cultural tales spanning the plains of Canada and 1975 India. Fighting Words , for South Coast Repertory, where he is also commissioned to write a new play. Recently, she directed Phedre at American Repertory Theatre and will direct The Trojan Women at Oregon Shakespeare Festival later this summer. Heaven , George F. Walker's dynamic exploration of race, religion, and cultural identity takes the Yale Rep stage Nov. 24 through Dec. 16 and is directed by Evan Yionoulis.