Beautiful Theory: Proof Talks You Through It
Proof, written by David Auburn and directed by Greg Carter, is The Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s ensemble’s beautiful, suspenseful stage production. […]
2017
OROBORO -A Comedy with Loops
Have you ever been just on the edge of sleep, only to be jerked into consciousness by the gut-sinking sensation of free fall? That’s precisely how it feels watching K. Brian Neel’s original play Oroboro, whipping in and out of thought and time. If you’re searching for something more abstract than linear plots, Oroboro is the show for you. Oroboro
Happy Hour-Delivers Laughter and Tears at 18th & Union
The Stars are no longer Spangled
It is often said that a good actor can take the telephone book and make it seem dramatic. Well, right here in Seattle at 18th & Union Theatre, two comediennes Keira McDonald and Erin Stewart, dared each other to write a sketch comedy to open on Inauguration Day 2017…a day which was decidedly unfunny, yet they kept us falling in the aisles with laughter. This is no mean feat, given the terror/disgust/boredom which people have felt after this long presidential campaign. Since the script did not depend on sophisticated language, the comedy was all in the delivery-sometimes very subtle, by these two comic geniuses, who could make the simplest sentence, seem unbelievably funny.
“Shot” Disrupts Our Comfort Zones
World Premiere
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James Baldwin
Law enforcement officers—police officers—now have an infamous reputation for killing unarmed people of color of all ages and genders. This s not new, of course, essayist James Baldwin wrote about it decades ago, and comedian Richard Pryor joked about police accidentally “breaking” black suspects by using the illegal strangle hold. But the murder of Michael Brown and the spontaneous birth of Black Lives Matter has held a spotlight on this problem unlike any attention paid to it before now.
Past
GENERATIONS LATER AIDS HAUNTS FAMILIES
Though Terrance McNally 2013 play is titled Mothers and Sons, a better title would be “Andre’s Mother Returns.” McNally is
The 39 Steps at Village Theatre
So … a comedic take on a 1935 Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Hmm. How would that work? Turns out, the answer
Love Train
Have you ever overheard a snippet of an interesting conversation and wished you could hear the rest? Love Train, a
14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival Closing Weekend
[Note: This is a review of the closing performances of the festival on Jan 13th and 14th. R.E. Parker reviewed
The Trojan Women-adaptation of Euripides Play, As relevant today as in 415 B.C.
The Trojan Women explores the Class, Racial and Sexual Politics of War
An intense but highly intriguing adaptation of Euripides’s The Trojan Woman, by Caroline Bird opened at Seattle’s favorite venue for plays taking place in prisons: The old Immigration Jail, now called The Slate Theatre. Produced by Civic Rep Theatre, the play offered a scintillating exposé of the interconnection between war and rape, of the rationalizations of the powerful as they evade their responsibilities and avoid making amends, how the wives of the powerful, accepting of their “feminine” roles, use power ruthlessly and of course, how the poor and disenfranchised pay the ultimate price for war. All this wrapped up in a coherent script, sprinkled with poetic witticisms, which honored the classical text and our modern theatrical conventions.