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April 2013
Assisted Living
ASSISTED LIVING opened at ACT Theatre this Friday. It seems to follow the fashion these days, dictated by simple demographics, of writing plays and movies about baby-boomers retiring.
Huck Finn: UNCENSORED in new Production by Book-It
Huck Finn: Uncensored Book-It Repertory Theatre brings another work of North American classic literature to the stage with, Adventures of
The Final Tribunal into the Mysterious Death of Mister Senor Salvador Dali
The show comes at the audience from a variety of angles: part art history lesson, part mystery, part love story and a whole lot of absurdist, surreal shenanigans.
Past
Riding in Cars with Black people and Other Newly Dangerous Acts by Chad Goller-Sojourner
This show reminded me of Barack Obama’s Coming of Age auto-biography, but with all due respect to one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had, Riding in Cars is a whole lot funnier.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Life imitated art, when the theater address was not in the GPS; and the theatre was located in the former INS immigration jail. As I had visited it almost daily, when a friend of mine was incarcerated for an interminable nine weeks, I was inundated with memories of unsuccessful legal action.
The Whipping Man
Whipping Man affected me the same way the movie Shindler’s List did. It dealt with profound evil, but with enough humor and humanity to make it watchable.
Edith can Shoot Things and Hit Them.
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat opened at Seattle Public Theatre on Friday. It tells the tale of two minors, age 12 and 16, who have been abandoned by their father to fend for themselves, after the death of their mother. Complicating the situation is the gay boyfriend of the 16-year, whose fundamentalist mother throws him out of the house, after she ferrets out that he is actively gay.