Jobsite's 2006 – 2007 Season

Winner!

• Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Theater Company

"In a little less than 10 years, Jobsite has become the closest thing to a top Off-Broadway theater that the Bay area has to offer. Artistic director David Jenkins and his clever board of directors have an uncanny ability to find important and demanding plays: How did they know to program Jean-Claude van Itallie’s avant-garde The Serpent in the same season with Neil LaBute’s uncompromising This is How it Goes and Alan Ayckbourn’s undervalued tour de force Woman in Mind? How did they know that audiences would turn out for the scorching Pillowman and David Rabe’s withering Hurlyburly?

"While the productions put on by other local theaters last season were hit-and-miss, Jobsite shows were consistently first-rate. If you believed in theater as an art form, if you looked to stage plays to provide you not just with entertainment but with illumination, Jobsite had to be your destination. Bay area culture wouldn’t be the same without it." – Creative Loafing

Also see:

• Our 2006 – 2007 video preview.
• Our 2006 – 2007 season wrap.

The Pillowman

By Martin McDonagh
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Extended! Oct. 12 – Nov. 5, 2006
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Winner!

• Creative Loafing 2006 Top 10 Production
• Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actor – Steve Garland
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Play
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Director – David M. Jenkins
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Actor – Steve Garland
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actor – Paul Potenza

The Pillowman is an exhilarating and vicious comedy-drama about a fiction writer (Steve Garland) in a totalitarian state who is interrogated when a number of bizarre incidents occurring in his town resemble the gruesome content of his short stories. When the writer's mentally impaired brother (Paul Potenza) is also brought in for questioning by two officers (Ryan McCarthy and Matt Lunsford), the police procedural takes unforeseen twists and turns.

The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (abridged)

By Adam Long, Daniel Singer & Jess Winfield
Directed by Katrina Stevenson
Nov. 10–12, 2006
Fri. – Sat. 8 pm, Sun. 4 pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Having shrunk Shakespeare's wit and wisdom into manageable morsels of madness, Jobsite returns with an encore performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) to tear around the stage in doublets and Chuck Taylor's on a riotous romp through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays plus the sonnets all in an hour and a half.

The Serpent

By Jean Claude van Itallie in collaboration with The Open Theater
Directed by Chris Holcom
Extended! Dec. 8 – 17, 2006
Fri. – Sat. 8 pm, Sun. 4 pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

The Serpent is a poignant, provocative parable which takes its cue from the legends about Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and traces the legends backward, forward, and sideways to track a path through existence. Alternately, the parable is fierce and funny, myth and reality, and mingled with contemporary experience.

All the Great Books (abridged)

By Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
Directed by Katrina Stevenson
Starring Jason Evans, David M. Jenkins and Shawn Paonessa
Jan. 12 – Feb. 4, 2007
Fri. – Sat. 10:00pm, Sun. 7pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Get your learn on when Tampa Bay's original "Bad Boys of Abridgement" return to give audiences a crash course on the best of Western Literature in All the Great Books (abridged). This time around, they cover 89 of the greatest books in 90 minutes. They study hard so that you don't have to!

This is How it Goes

By Neil Labute
Directed by Ami Sallee Corley
Jan. 25 – Feb. 11, 2007
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Winner!

• Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Production

The southeastern US premiere of This is How it Goes! The black jock, the fat dork and the white cheerleader – 12 years later. In true Neil LaBute (The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, In the Company of Men) fashion, 45-degree turns run rampant, keeping both the audience and characters on their toes. He targets small town middle America for a new tale of manipulation, exploitation, race and infidelity through the story of an interracial love triangle.

The March of the Kitefliers

By Neil Gobioff & Shawn Paonessa
Directed by Kari Goetz
Mar. 29 – Apr. 15, 2007
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Winner!

• Jobsite Jobby – Best Design – Brian Smallheer (set), John Lott (lights), Katrina Stevenson (costume) & Kari Goetz, David Jenkins and Shawn Paonessa (sound)

The Triumphant Return!

When Sam (Shawn Paonessa) graduated from college with a double major in art and marketing, he had big dreams of a career in advertising. The corporate world submitted him to a mediocre job, while he chronically pursued his dreams through vivid fantasy. When Julia (Meg Heimstead) walks into his life, Sam is suddenly forced to decide whether to finally grow up and pursue the woman he loves, or follow the footsteps of his best friend, Jack (David M. Jenkins), who lives in a perpetual state of childhood. What ensues is an endearing romantic comedy and a hilarious post-modern satire that asks, "Who are we really, and what ever happened to the dreamers within us when we were children?" See more about The March of the Kitefliers.

Woman in Mind

By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Jun. 7 – 24, 2007
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Winner!

• Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Production
• Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Actress – Ami Sallee Corley
• Creative Loafing Best of the Bay – Best Costume Designer – Katrina Stevenson
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Actress – Ami Sallee Corley
• Jobsite Jobby – Best Supporting Actress – Kari Goetz

Sir Alan Ayckbourn (Norman Conquests, Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends), one of the most popular and prolific playwrights in the world, goes deeper and darker in Woman in Mind – a play about a bored housewife named Susan who is married to a stodgy vicar. After regaining consciousness from a comical accident, Susan experiences a series of hallucinations in which her tedious, loveless and oppressive everyday life is replaced by a fantasy world where she is the ideal wife and mother of an ideal family. The two halves of her life eventually collide with hilarity and heartbreak.

Hurlyburly

By David Rabe
Directed by Jason Vaughan Evans
Aug. 9 – 16, 2007
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Shimberg Playhouse, TBPAC

Winner!

• Creative Loafing 2007 Top 10 Production

In Hurlyburly, Eddie's world exists at the very juncture where Hollywood meets the mountains, where the almost-rich and not-yet-famous live on cheap thrills and heady ambition while searching for true love and redemption. Here, Eddie and his three best friends engage in a wild life of witty repartee and snappy come-backs, of ex-wives and future lovers, of hard partying and late nights, of sex, lies and self-obsession.