The Denver Center Theatre Company opens the 2009 2010 Season with two classic dramas – one with special relevancy to the nation’s current economic crisis in David Mamet’s adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker and one celebrating the bruised but undaunted search for the American dream in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. 

The Voysey Inheritance

by Harley Granville-Barker

Adapted by David Mamet

Directed by Bruce K. Sevy

September 18 – October 24, 2009    (Opening Thursday, September 24)    The Space Theatre

           

Greed, guilt and high-level financial corruption are subjects frequently discussed and viewed by today’s media-savvy Americans.  In David Mamet’s acclaimed recent adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance, Edward Voysey discovers that the business and wealth he will inherit upon his father’s death were accumulated through a Ponzi-like scheme.   Edward’s ethical battle becomes whether to perpetuate his father’s scheme and provide some restitution to the victims or to blow the whistle and bring the blue-chip business crashing down.  What makes this play so highly entertaining to contemporary audiences is that Harley Granville-Barker wrote the original script for The Voysey Inheritance not in 2009 but in 1905 – years before these pyramid schemes were tagged with the Ponzi moniker and a century before the shocking Bernie Madoff scandal became breaking news on CNN.

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

Directed by Israel Hicks

October 1 – 31, 2009    (Opening Thursday, October 8)    The Stage Theatre

“There is simply no reason why dreams should dry up like raisins or prunes or anything else in America,” wrote Lorraine Hansberry becoming the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway with her breakthrough drama A Raisin in the Sun.  Israel Hicks (director of DCTC ten-play August Wilson cycle) returns to the Denver Center to direct this classic and moving exploration of individual expressions of the American dream on Chicago’s Southside.

Father’s $10,000 life insurance settlement inspires three generations of the inner-city Younger family to dream of very different ways to spend the money.  Mama dreams of living in a better neighborhood, her daughter plans to go to medical school and her son intends to buy into a liquor store. 

Tickets and Subscriptions

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Single tickets for all performances this season start at $18 (some restrictions may apply) and are on sale now.  The Denver Center Box Office located in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex is open from 10am to 6pm Monday through Saturday.  To purchase tickets by phone call (303) 893-4100 – for those outside the Denver calling area, 1 (800) 641-1222, TTY (303) 893-9582.  Buy and print tickets on-line by visiting www.denvercenter.org. 

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Groups of 10+ contact 303.446.4829 or groupsales@dcpa.org

No children under six will be admitted to any theatre.

Performance Schedule

Stage, Space and Ricketson Theatres

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday performances at 6:30pm

Friday and Saturday evening performances at 7:30pm

Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30pm

Perspective on the Play

Complimentary pre-show discussion.

           

            The Voysey Inheritance,    Friday, September 18 at 6:00pm, The Jones Theatre

Buie Seawell, Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies for the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.

           

            A Raisin in the Sun,            Friday, October 2 at 6:00pm, The Jones Theatre

                                                        Terry Nelson from the Blair-Caldwell African American 

                                                       Research Library and Dr. Marilynn Lewis.