MCC announce 2008-9 season

MCC Theater has announced the three world premiere productions comprising its upcoming 2008-9 season. The New York City theater company will once again bring a triptych of works to Off Broadway¹s Lucille Lortel Theatre for their 23rd season.

The productions are Fifty Words, by Michael Weller, Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, and Coraline, music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt, book by David Greenspan and based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

Casting and creative team to be announced.

• Fifty Words
  Playwright: Michael Weller
  Director: Austin Pendleton
  Synopsis: Something’s gone very wrong behind the idyllic façade of Jan and Adam’s Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they’re reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:15 p.m., they’re both in tears. By 9:25 p.m., things are way past tears.
  Dates: 10 Sep - 25 Oct 2008
  
  

• The Break of Noon
  Playwright: Neil LaBute
  Synopsis: Joe Smith’s just had an epiphany. In a blinding flash, he’s been gloriously transformed from avowed disbeliever to fervent believer. But he quickly finds himself at the center of his own rapidly crumbling life, as those nearest to him kick back against his newfound faith. Suddenly a stranger to those he values most, Joe must find a modern response to the age-old question: at what cost, salvation?
  Dates: 14 Jan - 28 Feb 2009
  
  

• Coraline
  Music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt, book by David Greenspan amd based on the Novel by Neil Gaiman.
  Synopsis: Poor bored Coraline. She’s left to rattle round her perpetually distracted parents’ house all by her lonesome. Then one day, her dreams of a better reality are answered as she steps through an old oak doorway and passes into a perfected replica of her own world. Greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and kindly Other Father, she’s thrilled! But, as the saying goes: Be careful what you wish for…
  Dates: 6 May - 20 Jun 2009