Theatre NXS
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The Theatre NXS Mission
The mission of Theatre NXS is to produce works of artistic and social significance with professional expertise and creative passion, to develop an audience to support such work, to discover and develop local talent, and to establish a professional theater in Columbia, MO.
The implications of the sound of the name, "Theatre In Excess," are intentional. Theatre NXS brings a challenging, inclusive new voice to Columbia theater. It embraces music and dance as well as theater. Theatre NXS has hosted plays, bands, dance companies, variety shows, comics, business meetings, private parties, classes, meetings, recitals, raconteurs, burlesque, gender illusionists - pretty much anything you can think of Theatre NXS has hosted.
Theatre NXS seeks to draw audience members into their own experience of theater, one that will be entertaining and rewarding.
A Look at Our Most Recent Show
Theatre NXS Presents
Memoirs, a new play by Don Nigro
Featuring Aaron Krawitz and Addison Myers
In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant had been caught in a fraudulent investment scheme and had lost all of his money. He had also just been diagnosed with throat cancer, and was confronted with the possibility of dying soon and leaving his family poverty-stricken and in debt. Mark Twain, his close friend at the time, convinced him to write his memoirs. Twain, subsequently horrified at the onerous terms of a publisher's contract, convinced Grant to let him do the publishing. In one of the most remarkable feats of writing ever, Grant raced with the Grim Reaper to complete his Memoirs, winning the race by five days.
Don Nigro takes us through four critical moments in this process. With his keen eye both to historical accuracy and to the depth of human experience, he makes these two American icons human. With great humor and insight, they confront life, death, the creative process, and what it means to be human. Theatre NXS is privileged to be able to present the world premiere of another of Don's plays that will surely take its place in the cannon of great American drama. Produced through special arrangement with Don Nigro.
Pictured at right are Addison Myers and Aaron Krawitz in Don Nigro's Memoirs. Another world premiere of another fantastic Don Nigro play.
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The Plays: Performed All Three Nights
Theatre NXS is proud and privileged to present the world premieres of Further
Adventures of Tom and Huck and Jack in the Box and the Missouri
premiere of Normalcy.
Please note that this is Theatre for Grownups. These plays are not for
children under the age of 16.
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>> Further Adventures of Tom and Huck by Don Nigro
"It's been so long. I always felt bad about losing touch like we
did. Gosh, it's great to see you. Wait till I tell Becky. You know
I married Becky Thatcher, don't you?" And so Tom begins their thirty
year reunion. Don Nigro's exploration of these long-loved traditional
characters presents a modern black comedy that plays on contemporary
social themes and the American mythos, all with a stunning plot twist.
After seeing this dark, witty and hilarious take on "what if," you
will never think of Tom, Huck and Becky quite the same again.
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>> Normalcy by Don Nigro
In this very short play a student presents a "report" on the stunning
term of Warren G. Harding, and no politician is quite safe from its
outrageous commentary.
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>> Jack in the Box by Don Nigro
What if you discovered yourself trapped in a wind-up box, a spring
stuck half-way up your arse, at the mercy of some gargantuan child?
Jack, in the box, struggles to remember how he got there. Ten twisted
minutes from the mind of Don Nigro.
Boston Marriage
David Mamet
David Mamet’s critics once said he could only write for men. He responded
with Boston Marriage, a Victorian comedy of errors that broke new
ground, not only for Mamet, but also for off-Broadway theatre.
“Devastatingly funny ... exceptionally clever ... (Mamet) demonstrates
anew his technical virtuosity and flexibility.” The New York Times
“(Mamet’s characters) are at each other’s throats with a wit akin to characters
out of Wilde and a vengeance not unlike those from Pinter, Edward Albee
or Mamet himself.” The Boston Globe
“Wickedly, wittily entertaining ... What makes the play ... such brilliant
fun is its marriage of glinting period artifice and contemporary frankness.”
The Boston Phoenix
“Brilliant ... One of Mamet’s most satisfying and accomplished plays, and
one of the funniest comedies in years.” New York Post
Theatre NXS is proud to present the mid-Missouri premiere of David Mamet’s Boston Marriage.
Hedda Gabler
Adapted from Henrik Ibsen by Cheryl Black and LR Hults
A Night of One-Act Premieres: Mulberry Tree Variations and The
Voice Folk
Don Nigro
Featuring Loretta
George F. Walker
Risk Everything, by George F. Walker
From the Suburban Motel series, Risk Everything is
set in a seedy motel room. It opens with Denise helping her beaten-up
mother, Carol, into the room. Carol has, it turns out, pulled a scam
on a very bad guy. Before it's all over, Carol, Denise, RJ (Denise's
husband), and Michael, the porn director making a movie in the next
room who falls for Carol, have all confronted certain death and the
life choices that brought them to that point. Raw, sexy and funny,
Risk Everything dares to ask what is the purpose of life, if it's
not to risk everything for what matters to you. For mature audiences.
RJ: Character Description
RJ is Denise's husband. Wild and crazy in his youth, he has served time and is determined to
work with Denise to turn their lives around. He is obsessed with television, and because
of that he often seems dumber than he is. He is more vulnerable than Denise.
Michael: Character Description
Michael was directing a porn movie next door, and when Carol went to ask him to make
less noise, they ended up in bed. He is a raging heterosexual in search of sex with meaning,
and he becomes convinced that Carol will give him what he needs. He fancies himself slick
and sophisticated, but is actually somewhat hapless.
Carol: Character Description
Carol is powerful, driven, scheming, manipulative, fearless, likable and a heavy drinker
who holds it well. A scam artist and dedicated gambler for whom “risk everything”
means exactly that.
