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Table 8 offering full season of plays, including some offbeat productions

Las Vegas’ peripatetic Table 8 Productions may not have a home base, but for the first time, it has a full season of plays.

The troupe’s 2014-15 season, themed “#LeadUsNot,” includes two world premieres — one of them to be staged at a local motel — and the local debut of “Spring Awakening,” the Tony-winning rock musical.

“We’ve done so many one-offs and short runs around town, I decided it was time to plant some firm roots,” according to Troy Heard, Table 8’s creative director. “And with Vegas’ growing theater scene, the stakes have been raised to forge a new path. We’re pursuing that by creating more site-specific and fully immersive productions.”

The phrase “fully immersive” describes the season opener, “Jonestown,” which Heard will base on the archives of the Rev. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, taking audiences through a Peoples Temple service before transporting them to Guyana for the group’s final, fatal day.

Another controversial group, Scientology, inspires the peppermint-twisted holiday musical “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant.”

The world premiere of “Motel” — a Vegas-centric version of Arthur Schnitzler’s “La Ronde” by Heard and local playwright Ernie Curcio — will be staged at the Gateway Motel, where audiences will travel from room to room to follow the trysts and liaisons of newlyweds, escorts and evangelists.

Other locations for the Table 8 season range from the Summerlin Library to the Art Square Theatre to local residences, where, starting in October, private audiences may book “An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Dr. John Faustus on His Final Evening,” a one-man, one-hour visit from Dr. Faustus, alias actor Erik Amblad.

“Whether you choose to hire the show for a dinner party of a small cocktail fundraiser, the good doctor will show up to your door, spend an hour making his apology, then depart for his own hellish destination,” Heard explains. “It’s a truly unique experience for Las Vegas, and one we’re excited to pilot.”

The one-woman tour de force “Miss Margarida’s Way” — with the audience as members of the title character’s captive eighth-grade class — rounds out the Table 8 season.

The complete schedule:

“Jonestown” — Oct. 23-Nov. 8 (location to be determined)

“A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant” — Dec. 4-20 (Art Square Theatre, 1025 First St.)

“Spring Awakening” — Jan. 16-31 (Summerlin Library and Performing Arts Center, 1771 Inner Circle Drive)

“Motel” — March 12-28 (Gateway Motel, 928 Las Vegas Blvd. South)

“Miss Margarida’s Way” — May 7-23 (location to be determined)

“An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Dr. John Faustus on His Final Evening” (available for private bookings beginning in October)

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