Blood, Comedy, and Tragedy
The Duchess of Malfi opened at North Seattle College on February 26th. This production, put on by GreenStage’s Hard Bard, is a bloody retelling of John Webster’s play directed by Tony Driscoll. It was a serious story told in an unserious manner. With the blood, humor, and acting, this production made for quite an entertaining Friday night.
There must be something for everyone at the Seattle Fringe Festival, which is dedicated to presenting 22 different independent and
Love Snack is the comedy duo Baylie Freeman and Caitlin Obom. For this production, the duo are keying off the common feeling that all of the power moves in the world, from Wall Street to unmarked prisons to major international trade agreements, are controlled by the same secret organization: The Illumanati.
Gigabites of Giggles
Seattle’s most beloved comic, Bridget Quigg, opened her new show, Techlandia, a tribute to all that we love and hate about the technological evolution of Seattle , on Friday at Theater Schmeater. For those of us who have been around the tech revolution for more than 25 years and are perhaps married to the first generation of “geeks” it was nothing short of therapeutic laughter.
Danielle Gregoire found her inspiration of her A Necessary Sadness shows from John Koenig’s Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.* People voluntarily respond to her call for a 5 minute set on a sorrow in their lives.
For Leah Adcock-Starr, the director of The Life and Death of Peter Pan in this year’s Fringe Festival, Peter Pan is a new Myth. Though she writes in her blog that she was comfortable with the idea of growing up when she was a child, the story still touched something in her. With the help of her husband Kieran and a talented ensemble of actors she has brought to the stage the troubled and tangled adult life of Peter Pan’s creator: James Matthew Barrie. The furnace of fame and fortune has fused JM Barrie the person to Peter Pan the Myth.
Theatre 22 mounts a sensitive and touching production of the one-act play Annapurna featuring two local talents: John Q. Smith and Teri Lazzara. Sharr White’s work debuted in LA in 2014 and has already had a Broadway run starring Ned Offerman and Megan Mullally. White writes of a long separated couple coming to terms with their individual pasts and each other. Hard truths are faced, old disputes are replayed, new fears arise and yet a grudging love and respect somehow emerge by the final blackout. The two-person piece is skillfully performed and deftly directed by Julie Beckman.
In Seattle Musical Theater’s latest production, 9 to 5, the hit 1980 film starring Dolly Parton is brought to the
Silent Sky opened at Taproot Theatre January 29. Written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Karen Lund, Silent Sky dazzled
“I am wedded to Satan”
Drawing on one of the most influential and profound legends in European literature, the legend of Dr. Faust, Akropolis Performance Lab has produced Ecce Faustus, Latin for Behold Faust!!! Directed by Joseph Lavy, and presented at the austere Northminister Presbyterian Church in Ballard, the show opened on Friday.
