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Lana Dieterich and Ken Webster are back for the revival of HPT's production of Vigil. Photo by Bret Brookshire.

Of our 2002 production, the American-Statesman said "impeccable . . . Hyde Park Theatre is on one heck of a roll." The Austin Chronicle said, "Panych's script is an absolute gem, so much so that it almost leaves me speechless." The Daily Texan called it "riotously funny."

HPT's original production took B. Iden Payne Award nominations for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress, and won the award for Outstanding Comedy of 2002-2003. It was also nominated for Austin Critics Table Awards for Outstanding Actor, Actress, Director, and Comedy.

Vigil was also listed in the Austin Chronicle's 2002 Ten Best issue as the first "Most Memorable Theatrical Offering I Chanced to See" and as an Honorable Mention in the "Top Ten Onstage Works of Wonder."

Hyde Park Theatre presents

VIGIL
by Morris Panych

September 9 - October 9, 2010

For more information or to make reservations,
call 479-PLAY (479-7529) or purchase tickets online

"I spoke to a funeral director today. You don't mind recorded music, do you? Of course not. I don't mean this in a cruel way, but practically speaking, you're the only one who won't have to listen to it."

Vigil's Kemp has come to attend to his dying aunt. But as the play proceeds, it becomes less and less clear what he is doing there, or whether she will ever actually die. The Globe and Mail called this black comedy "a small masterpiece." Maclean's called it "a devilishly funny play that laughs in death's face."

The 2010 production reunites Hyde Park Theatre Artistic Director Ken Webster (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Collection, House) and Lana Dieterich (Our Town, The Grapes of Wrath) in this wickedly funny dark comedy.

Vigil runs at 8:00 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, September 9 - October 9. Every Thursday is Pay What You Can Night; Friday and Saturday tickets are $19 ($17 for students, seniors, and ACOT members). Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W. 43rd Street. For reservations call 479-PLAY (7529) or purchase tickets online.

Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W. 43rd Street. Covered off-street parking for the patrons of HPT is available in the lot at 4315 Guadalupe Street, just north of The Parlor. You can drive through The Parlor's parking lot to reach it. Evening HPT parking also available at Kenneth's Hair Salon, just south of HPT, and at the Hyde Park Church of Christ on the northeast corner of 43rd & Avenue B. We are grateful to them all for their generosity.

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Hyde Park Theatre is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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