OCP Season 2025
Tickets for each of the 2025 Season Shows will go on sale
about four weeks in advance of each opening night.
MARCH 14 - 30
HERE LIES HONESTY
Written and Directed by Amanda Goodwin
This play chronicles a Manhattan dinner party in 1999 that starts out good-natured and civil but turns unexpectedly dark, when alcohol-fueled party guests eschew their mantles of reserve and turn quick-witted sparring into full-fledged skewering. Ultimately, as the evening burns on, secrets are revealed.
MAY 9 - 25
Breadcrumbs
by Jennifer Haley
Directed by Christopher Jewell
A reclusive fiction writer diagnosed with dementia must depend upon a troubled young caretaker to complete her autobiography. In a symbiotic battle of wills, they delve into the dark woods of the past, unearthing a tragedy that shatters their notions of language, loneliness, and essential self.
JUNE 28 + 29
THIS COULD BE PARADISE
A New Works Project Staged Reading
by Sara Jo Breslow
Directed by Patricia Duff
The Skagit River Valley of northwest Washington State is home to some of the last best salmon runs in the lower forty-eight, and some of the richest farmland in the world. But trying to save both fish and farms in a time of rapid social and environmental change has plunged local communities into decades of disputes. Based on real interview excerpts, This Could Be Paradise imagines the drama that might unfold when the voices of Native Americans, farmers, and environmentalists—and the anthropologist trying to understand them—are brought into unexpected conversation as they struggle to protect their shared valley.
Sept. 12 - 28
The Caretaker
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by Dan Christiaens and Robert Sindelar
Aston asks down-and-out Davies to be a live-in caretaker. Davies leaps at the chance to change his fortunes, but the trouble is he doesn’t know what a caretaker should do, especially in a room filled with junk. When Aston’s manipulative brother Mick shows up, the power struggle begins. Why does Aston collect all this stuff? Will Davies ever get a pair of decent shoes? And who will fix the drip in the ceiling? A play about the fragile balance of trust and betrayal in family relationships takes place in a single room of a house and explores themes of loneliness, isolation, and the absurdity of modern society.
Nov. 14 - 30
PASTURE-IZED
Book by Ken Merrell
Music by Eileen Soskin
Lyrics by Ken Merrell and Eileen Soskin
Directed by Ken Merrell
Musical Direction by Karen Heather
When Broadway Producer/Director, Jerry Hardwick, suffers a stress-related heart attack, his well-meaning family convinces him to give up show business and retire to sleepy, low-key, Whidbey Island. Everything looks like it’s going to plan when the theater bug bites Jerry again, and instead of moving into the cushy retirement community his kids have all set up, he buys a tumble-down community theater and goes back into production mode. Romance, greedy heirs, lost wills, theatre, art, a ghost, and quantum mechanics all converge in this musical commentary on not exiting stage right just because someone else has decided it’s your cue.