From April 15-May 8 visit the arrival of America’s 20th Century as the historic Athens Theatre turns the clocks back to a nation expanding its American Dream to include both millions of recently arrived European immigrants and newly northern black families all in search of better lives while the old, white establishment adjusts its own ideas of who they might become as Americans.
“Hysteria” examines such deadly serious topics as childhood sexual abuse and the unraveling of a man’s life work while at the same time creating a classic British country-house farce, complete with double entendres, a mountain of lies, assumed identities and various stages of undress.