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Tickets to all 5 shows of the 10/11 Mainstage Season

Tickets to all 8 shows of the 10/11 Season, both Mainstage and Second Stage Series

 

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*STUDENT RUSH TICKETS
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FIRST SUNDAY
of every production is "Pay What You Can" Day. This show is also AUDIO DESCRIBED for the visually impaired.

2011/2012 Season: Mainstage Subscription

To SUBSCRIBE to all 5 shows of Burning Coal’s upcoming 2011/2012 Mainstage Season, call us at 919-834-4001 or mail your check payable to “Burning Coal Theatre” in the amount of $80 per subscription, to Burning Coal Theatre, PO Box 90904, Raleigh, NC 27675-0904.

 

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For $30 more, you can subscribe to our five mainstage plays and our 4 ‘Wait ‘til You See This!” (Second Stage) plays.  To subscribe call us, or mail us a check in the amount of $110.

 

The Mainstage Series:

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Burning Coal Theatre
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Raleigh, NC 27675

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ENRON

by Lucy Prebble
directed by Jerome Davis

This musically, dancy, crazy riff... on one of the biggest swindles of the century. Dinosaurs will figure prominently.
estimated run time 2 hrs.

 

September 8 – 25, 2011 Download the Study Guide

HENRY V (on Trapeze)

by William Shakespeare
directed by Steven Cole Hughes

Burning Coal teams with NYC’s Fight or Flight to present a soaring production of Shakespeare’s stirring classic about an unsure King forced by circumstance to lead his nation into battle against a far superior force. Aerial gymnastics will figure prominently.
estimated run time 2 hrs.

 

December 1 – 18, 2011

MAN OF LA MANCHA

by Darion, Leigh and Wasserman
directed by Tea Alagic

This musical version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote tells the amazing tale of an errant knight (Randolph Curtis Rand) who believed that the ills of the world could be corrected, and set out to do so with his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza (David Henderson), and his beloved Dulcinea (Yolanda Rabun). Bring your own Kleenex, and come prepared to believe.
estimated run time 2 hrs.

 

February 2 – 19, 2012

JUDE THE OBSCURE, Part 1 (of 2)

by Thomas Hardy
adapted by Ian Finley, Jerome Davis and Bruce Benedict

The first of a two part series. Thomas Hardy’s magnificent final novel will be staged for the first time in a musical adaptation. Young Jude Fawley, born into poverty, becomes convinced through the presence of a teacher in his young life, that anything is possible. He sets out to raise himself above his position and climb the highest heights. Along the way, the love of his life, Sue Bridehead will change his thinking about everything. Beautiful, Victorian era music will figure prominently.
estimated run time 2 hrs.

 

April 12 – May 5, 2012

JUDE THE OBSCURE, Part 2 (of 2)

by Thomas Hardy
adapted by Ian Finley, Jerome Davis and Bruce Benedict

The second of a two part series. Thomas Hardy’s magnificent final novel will be staged for the first time in a musical adaptation. Young Jude Fawley, born into poverty, becomes convinced through the presence of a teacher in his young life, that anything is possible. He sets out to raise himself above his position and climb the highest heights. Along the way, the love of his life, Sue Bridehead will change his thinking about everything. Beautiful, Victorian era music will figure prominently.
estimated run time 2 hrs.

 

April 19 – May 5, 2012