In this time of economic uncertainty, when a lot of theaters are sticking with the tried and true, Chester Theatre Company is going for something untried and new for them. Three-quarters of the company’s four-play season will be given to Arlene Hutton’s Nibroc Trilogy. (The fourth play is Brian Friel’s searchingly poignant Molly Sweeney.) The Nibroc cycle of related plays follows a Kentucky family during and after World War II. Beginning with a chance meeting on a crowded train in 1940, they follow the courtship and marriage of May and Raleigh, two people whose small-town lives reflect the national currents and upheavals of the war and its aftermath. The three plays, Last Train to Nibroc, See Rock City and Gulf View Drive, will be performed sequentially and then, on two Saturdays in August, all on one day, including a Kentucky-style ice cream social and box dinner during the breaks.
June 30-Aug. 22, Chester Theatre Company, Town Hall, Chester, (413) 354-7771, www.chestertheatre.org.
