2009-2010 season - view season brochure


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Lee Moyer
The Lying Kind
by Anthony Neilson
November 20 - December 13, 2009

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

Fasten your sleigh bells! In The Lying Kind, Anthony Neilson takes classic British farce and twists it, hard.

It's Christmas Eve in London, and two hapless policemen must deliver tragic news to an elderly couple. When they try to hide the truth, the consequences are immediate, dire, and side-splitting.

With flirty septuagenarians, fearsome vigilantes, misplaced chihuahuas, stodgy vicars and, of course, naughty underwear, it's the perfect Third Rail Christmas offering.


World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
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Lee Moyer
American Buffalo
by David Mamet
February 12 - March 7, 2010

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

One of David Mamet's earliest successes, this comic drama of shifting loyalty, unspoken jealousy, and lurking desperation is considered an American Classic.

Three men living just this side of destitution plan a robbery. The loot is a rare coin collection, but American Buffalo's real currency is language. The dialogue is unmistakably Mamet's: clipped, elliptical, profane, but also poetic and telling.

In the hands of Third Rail's actors and guest director Daniel Stern (Diner, Breaking Away), this will be a dynamite evening of theatre.


World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
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Lee Moyer
The Gray Sisters
by Craig Wright
April 30 - May 23, 2010

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

Third Rail has always been a big fan of Craig Wright, our most frequently produced playwright. Now he's a fan of us! After seeing our award-winning production of his play Grace, he offered to pen a script specifically for Third Rail's luminous actresses.

In The Gray Sisters, four sisters unravel their family's history, and in the process grapple with questions of love, loyalty, faith, and fate.

Join us as we introduce a new work to the canon of American Drama.


World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
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