Alice’s Anthem
It’s not enough to be weird. You have to have substance, too. In “Alice’s Anthem” Copious Love productions brings together […]
September 2014
Slip/Shot Tackles Hot Topic for SPT’s Season Opener
Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Slip /Shot premiered in Philadelphia just weeks after Travon Martin was shot in Sanford, Florida in 2012. Though Goldfinger sets her action in the rural South, circa 1962, the story sharply resonates with our current sad headlines coming out of Ferguson, Missouri. The play revolves around a young black man being accidently shot by a befuddled young white security guard.
The Beauty of Noh: Tomoe and Yoshinaka
Less is more
In many ways, there can be no two cultures more different, creating personality styles diametrically opposed to each other, than Japan and the United States. Americans are overly-expressive and compared to us, the Japanese are extremely reserved. This reserved characteristic is noticeable in The Beauty of Noh: Tomoe, currently at ACT Theatre, performed by Munemori Takeda and the combined Kanze, Fukuoh, Kou, Kadono and Issou Schools of Noh.
Taproot Closes Season with The Fabulous Lipitones
A tuneful concoction, as light as a lemon meringue pie, is served up as Taproot’s concluding production for their 2014 Mainstage Season. The Fabulous Lipitones was co-written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain; both worked together years ago on The Cosby Show. Act one in particular utilizes the sitcom recipe of stock characters volleying one-liners back and forth, but before the night is over the show finds a more solid footing as it addresses racism and ageism in 21st century America.
The Bunner Sisters
Nineteenth Century Naturalism Complete with Consumption
Although Edith Wharton is not generally known for writing about poor New Yorkers, her story The Bunner Sisters, adapted for the stage by Julie Beckman of the Athena Theatre Project, focuses on the lives of two lower-middle class Protestant spinsters, (of the haute Clavinist bent) struggling to stay afloat in New York City in the late 19th Century.
Seattle 2014 Fringe Festival
Close-to-the-skin: Return of the Fringe
This weekend, the Seattle Fringe Festival 2014, will take place on Capitol Hill with 22 new productions.
Don Quixote y Sancho Panza: Homeless in Seattle
Don Quixote y Sancho Panza: Homeless in Seattle is a good piece on social justice, with a little local flavor
Man of La Mancha
Poet in Prison Puts on a Play.
Seattle Musical Theatre kicked off the 2014-2015 Season with Man of La Mancha, a 1965 Tony Award winning adaptation of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Considered the first novel ever written, it was published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, that is to say long after its subject matter, Chivalry and Knights, had ceased to exist.
Seascape
Homo sapiens discuss life and art with Lizards
Edward Albee’s play Seascape opened at Theatre Schmeater this past weekend. Written in 1975, it seemed incredibly dated, but dealt with one of Albee’s favourite themes, conflicts between married couples. However, in this play the conflict is not of the pathological alcohol-induced variety, as in his more famous play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, but rather the problem all couples go through at mid-life when they have to reassess their own individual lives in relation to their married lives.