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Season 15
National Premiere
Crocodile Fever by Meghan Tyler opens on April 12 and closes the season.
Alannah’s quiet life in 1989 Northern Ireland is disrupted when her rebellious IRA sister Fiannah comes home. The combative sisters are forced to confront their tyrannical father’s hideous legacy, and all hell breaks loose. A bloody dark comedy fueled by gin, 80s tunes, and a chainsaw, Crocodile Fever can’t end happily, but it can end gloriously.
“This play is a bloody masterpiece in every sense…” – BritishTheatre.com
Performance dates:
April 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 pm
April 14, 21, 28 at 2 pm
May 2, 3, 4 at 7:30 pm
May 5 at 2 pm.
Special Events:
April 10, 11 at 7: 30 pm Half-price preview nights
April 13 at 7:30 pm Teens get a free ticket to the performance (reservations required)
May 2 at 7:30 PM Sensory-friendly performance
Crocodile Fever is paritally sponosored by Eileen Woodham, full sponsorship still available
April 28, at 6 pm, we will meet at The Laboratory Theater of Florida for a group read of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, followed by a discussion on the work, why it is important, and why many feel the need to remove it from the shelves in many places.
THE STORY:
The Laramie Project is the story of the community’s reaction to the 1998 murder of a gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard. The play is set in Laramie, Wyoming, and uses the actual words of the town’s residents, pulled from interview transcripts, to create a complex portrait of a community confrontation with itself.
“The Laramie Project is one of those shows where the script alone almost assures a strong production, but this is one of the finest you could see. Every element comes together in perfect harmony to make the horrifying and emotional tale stay with you long after the play ends. ” – Theatre in Chicago
In honor of Yom HaShoah, the Laboratory Theater of Florida is holding a community event called It’s About All of Us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30.
It’s About All of Us is a Holocaust remembrance program inspired and designed to help the community remember Yom HaShoah, or in English, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yom HaShoah commemorates the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust as well as the heroism of the survivors and rescuers.
Typically, the solemn day is observed with Jewish leaders, clergy, Holocaust survivors, and Jewish brethren. But for this year’s observance, Lab Theater is expanding this to honor the Holocaust victims. Diverse members of the Southwest Florida community will be coming together to pay respects to the Holocaust victims in a show of support and mutual understanding for the steep cost of hate, indifference, and fear.
Speakers and readers will include clergy, Rabbi Nicole Luna of Temple Beth El in Fort Myers, Dr. Robert Hilliard, a WWII liberator and rescuer, Holocaust survivor Peter Seminauer, Flo Giltman, a second-generation Holocaust survivor and member of Gen Shoah of SWFL, Shalom Life Center musicians Chuck and Diane Coffman and Bella Gutstein, Earl Sparrow, a Fort Myers music teacher and African American community activist, Cape Security owner and area resident Andre Blaine, LGBTQ community member Rachel Kaci Davis, Fort Myers resident Rosemary Allen, Canterbury School student Amelia Smith and other community members.
Sharing Yom HaShoah with diverse members of the community will help us to see the shared struggles and commonalities between us as humans.
“If we are to truly honor the memory of the Holocaust victims and help to ensure we do not have another large-scale genocidal carnage and extermination of a group of people we must be able to see the pain and effects of hatred on all members of the human family,” said Ella Nayor, Laboratory Theater of Florida Holocaust and Human Rights Education Outreach Director.
The use of instrumental music, song, and special lighting will allow patrons and guests the opportunity to better understand the importance of honoring the memories of those murdered, as well as the need to educate each new generation so to help prevent another Holocaust from happening again.
Join us for a night of unity and connection on Tuesday, April 30th at 7 pm. Tickets are on sale now for $10, and donations will be collected for the Lab’s Holocaust and Human Rights Education to further the work of human rights education in our community. For tickets, call 239.218.048
The Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting is an annual award that is open to all new work. This year two finalists were selected in addition to the winner.
The submissions are blind and judged by a panel of readers chosen specifically for this event.
New Weekend Pass option!
For tickets to a specific evening, please choose the Assigned Seating option to select your seats. There is a discounted weekend pass to see all three evenings for $35, and choosing that option allows you to pick your seats for each of the three performances.
The 2024 winner is:
Yet to be determined!
The Lab presents an original musical parody of the iconic 1979 film Alien. Our motley crew of cosmonauts awakes from hyper-sleep to investigate a distress signal from a nearby planet. They unwittingly bring onto the ship an aggressive alien, bent on reproduction and domination. With tap dancing!
Doreen Green, aka Squirrel Girl, wants what any typical college student wants – to make friends, have cool professors, and go to parties. But when it comes time to save the day from an evil villain, can she do it while protecting her secret identity?
This comedy features Clyde, who rules over her sandwich shop with an iron fist. Her ex-con staff hopes for a second chance at life outside prison – will building the perfect sandwich guarantee redemption?
