Same Time, Next Year
by Bernard Slade
Directed by Linda Kirby

The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years. New Jersey accountant, George and Oakland, California housewife, Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951. They have an affair, then agree to meet once a year, despite the fact both are married to others and have six children between them. Over the course of the next 24 years, they develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect to find between two people meeting for a clandestine relationship just once a year. During the time they spend with each other, they discuss the births, deaths, and marital problems each is experiencing at home, while they adapt themselves to the social changes affecting their lives.

Week 1: July 30, 31 at 8 pm - August 1 at 2 pm

Week 2: August 6, 7 at 8 pm - August 8 at 2 pm

Week 3: August 13, 14 at 8 pm

The play takes place in a country inn in northern California. One evening in February 1951, a chance meeting over a steak dinner, will change the lives of George and Doris forever. Both are away from their spouses. Both are happily married and have three children each. But that night they begin a love affair that will last for the next twenty five years. Once a year they rendezvous at the same time and place. We see the changes in their lives, as well as the changes in manners, morals and attitudes of those twenty five years. George and Doris mirror the great shifts our society made during the 50's, 60's and 70's. For fifty one weeks every year, they have separate lives of ups and downs, happy times and sad times and just living. One weekend a year, they meet and talk and have sex. A whole year of living takes place in that weekend. I hope you enjoy the crazy, funny, and poignant times they have.

Linda Kirby