What can a censored artist do?
I watched the Seattle premiere of a play in search of a genre: White Rabbit Red Rabbit By Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour at 18th and Union. Billed as a one-act play for an actor that has never read the script, the show also draws into the performance lots of people in the audience.
In the role of “the actor” this evening was Kate Jaeger. Most recently she served as the co-host of this year’s Gregory Awards.
It’s an incredible tragedy that when Americans remember our modern war heroes we largely forget about the thousands of heroines that served along with them.
During the Vietnam War, about 11,000 women were stationed in the country, according to the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation. The majority served as nurses, about 90 percent, but some also served as physicians, intelligence officers and air traffic controllers.
Nearly all the women in Vietnam were volunteers.
“A Piece of My Heart” follows six young women thrown into a war zone on a story of calamity, confusion and inner conflict that is rarely seen in popular war stories. This story is unique not only in that it shows the war through women’s eyes but also because it focuses on battles behind the frontlines.
This Is Not Your Average All-Girls Summer Camp
The Lost Girls is a truly rare production that has you laughing your heart out and thinking about some of the world’s most pressing ideological concerns at the same time: sexuality, feminism, and privilege. Running from October 28th to November 19th at Annex Theater in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, this is a production that will do anything (and everything) but disappoint.
