SCR to Stage 11 Plays Next Season

Two commissioned plays, a Harold Pinter revival and titles by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw comprise South Coast Repertory’s 28th season of 11 plays. The season:

MAINSTAGE:

* “Heartbreak House” (Sept. 6-Oct. 6)--Shaw’s look at marriage, money and morality. SCR artistic director/co-founder Martin Benson directs.

* “The Extra Man” (Oct. 25-Nov. 24)--Developed by SCR’s NewSCRipts division, Richard Greenberg’s comedy of guilt and redemption centers around a man who is the seemingly perfect friend. The director is Michael Engler, who staged Broadway’s, “I Hate Hamlet.”

* Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” (Jan. 10-Feb. 9), directed by David Chambers.

* Phillip Barry’s “The Philadelphia Story” (Feb. 28-March 29).

* The world premiere of Barbara Field’s “Boundary Waters” (April 10-May 10)--A group of theoretical physicists meet on desolate tundra to study the migration of snowy owls--and wind up learning more about the human animal.

* A sixth play TBA (May 29-June 28).

SECOND STAGE:

* Donald Margulies’ “Sight Unseen” (Sept. 20-Oct. 20)--Commissioned by SCR and developed through in-house readings, it is about an artist deemed visionary but uncertain about his own identity and place.

* A revival of Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” (Oct. 25-Nov. 24).

* The world premiere of Jon Bastian’s Civil War comedy, “Noah Johnson Had a Whore” (Jan. 24-Feb. 23), which took second prize at SCR’s recent California Play Festival.

* A revival of John Gray and Eric Peterson’s “Billy Bishop Goes to War” (March 13-April 12).

* A TBA play (April 24-May 24).