SOUTH COAST REPERTORY HISTORY - THE EIGHTIES

*World Premiere

1980- 81 Season
Mainstage

Hotel Paradiso by George Feydeau
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Childe Byron by Romulus Linney
Anything Goes! by Cole Porter

Second Stage

American Buffalo by David Mamet
Bosoms and Neglect by John Guare
Screwball by L.J. Schneiderman*
Ashes by David Rudkin
Chevaliere by David Trainer*

 

1981-82 Season
Mainstage

Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
Loose Ends by Michael Weller
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
The Play's The Thing by Ferenc Molnar (adapted by P.G. Wodehouse)
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Da by Hugh Leonard
Tintypes by May Kyte, Mel Marvin & Gary Pearle

Second Stage

True West by Sam Shepard
Bodies by James Saunders
The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard
Coming Attractions by Ted Tally
The Man Who Could See Through Time by Terri Wagener

 

1982-83 Season
Mainstage

All In Favour Said No! by Bernard Farrell
The Diviners by Jim Leonard Jr.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
Boy Meets Girl by Samuel and Bella Spewack
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Second Stage

Brothers by George Sibbald*
She Also Dances by Kenneth Arnold*
Closely Related by Bruce MacDonald*
Goodbye Freddy by Elizabeth Diggs*
April Snow by Romulus Linney*

 

1983-84 Season
Mainstage

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
Becoming Memories by Arthur Giron
Good by C.P. Taylor
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Angels Fall by Lanford Wilson

Second Stage

Men's Singles by D.B. Gilles*
Christmas on Mars by Harry Kondoleon
Life and Limb by Keith Reddin*
Sally & Marsha by Sybille Pearson
Bing and Walker by James Paul Farrell*

 

1984-85 Season
Mainstage

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
The Gigli Concert by Thomas Murphy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
The Show-Off by George Kelly
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Debutante Ball by Beth Henley*
Master Harold...and the boys by Athol Fugard

Second Stage

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Shades by David Epstein*
Reckless by Craig Lucas
Salt-Water Moon by David French
Rum and Coke by Keith Reddin*

 

1985-86 Season
Mainstage

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Before I Got My Eye Put Out by Timothy Mason*
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Jitters by David French

Second Stage

Blue Window by Craig Lucas
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Driving Around the House by Patrick Smith
Unsuitable for Adults by Terry Johnson
Virginia by Edna O'Brien
Tomfoolery by Tom Lehrer (Cameron Mackintosh, Robin Ray, ads.)

 

1986-87 Season
Mainstage

Highest Standard of Living by Keith Reddin*
All the Way Home by Tad Mosel
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch, ad.)
Three Postcards by Craig Lucas & Craig Carnelia*
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Charley Bacon & His Family by Arthur Giron
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

Second Stage

Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
Birds by Lisa Loomer*
Fool For Love by Sam Shepard
Cold Sweat by Neal Bell*
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang

 

1987-88 Season
Mainstage

Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (adapted by Jerry Patch)
Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas*
Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn
The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan
Going for Gold by Louise Page

Second Stage

Haut Gout by Allan Havis
Benefactors by Michael Frayn
Marry Me a Little by Stephen Sondheim, Craig Lucas and Norman Rene
V & V Only by Jim Leonard Jr.*
Dog Logic by Thomas Strelich*

 

1988-89 Season
Mainstage

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
At Long Last Leo by Mark Stein*
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Jerry Patch, ad.)
The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw
Abundance by Beth Henley*
Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine

Second Stage

In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe by Eric Overmyer
Morocco by Allan Havis
Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Stephen Jeffreys, ad.)
Dragon Lady Robert Daseler*
The Geography of Luck by Marlane Meyer*

 

1989-90 Season
Mainstage

A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Jerry Patch, ad.)
Search and Destroy by Howard Korder*
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Once in Arden by Richard Hellesen*
Speed-The-Plow by David Mamet

Second Stage

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally
When I Was A Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout by Sharman Macdonald
Holy Days by Sally Nemeth
Emerald City by David Williamson
Man of the Flesh by Octavio Solis*
The Ramp by Shem Bitterman*