Accessible Shakespeare in the Park

Like its companion piece, 12th Night, The Tempest, which opened in West Seattle this weekend, is a one hour abridged version performed by only four actors. One of Shakespeare’s last plays it uses the familiar plot of a shipwreck, deposed rulers, young lovers adding magic and sorcery. Many critics think of it as Shakespeare’s Swan Song.

Accessible Shakespeare in the Park

In addition to their mainstage, full-length production of a Shakespeare play every summer, Greenstage also tours Seattle parks with “Backyard Bard” hour-long, abridged versions of Shakespeare.s play, using only four actors playing multiple roles. The shows concentrate on the main plot points and are short so that children can get an introduction to Shakespeare.

O for a Muse of Covid Creativity
A deck for a stage, an MFA grad to act
Sunflowers and bamboo that would ascend
The brightest heaven of Invention!

Then should a people pleaser
Enter to tell her history
with humor, wit and sadness
all in a backyard.

For the first post-pandemic, live in-person show, I had the honor to be invited to review Blackout-Recovering from Trauma on a Porch, a hilarious but insightful one-person show, by Hailey Henderson. Using humor, insight, brilliant comic timing and an excellent script, Henderson dissects three abusive relationships, and her struggles to break free and recover.

Best Dream I have seen

Directed by Taylor Davis, Greenstage opened the in-person outdoor theater season in Volunteer Park with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, perhaps the best outdoor Shakespeare production I have seen in 30 years in Seattle.

Blackout-One Woman Show

Blackout: A One-Woman Show is a journey out of hiding and into the light.

In March of 2020, Hailey Henderson was in the early stages of preparing Blackout, as a live performance for her MFA Thesis project, at the University of Washington. When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, Hailey adapted this autobiographical solo play, exploring the destructive nature of sexual and emotional abuse, as well as the cost of blending in to survive, into a live streamed show from her porch, Now, it will be performed live, in front of an audience, from the same porch in Seattle.

Livestream performance from Indiana University in Western Pennsylvania TODAY, Wednesday, April 28th,

CARAVAN CHRONICLES: ReUnion – ONE-TIME PERFORMANCE TODAY (whoa!)
WEDNESDAY 4/28/21 5:30-ish ET, 2:30-ish PST
(And LIVESTREAMED with ASL interpretation for y’all unable to be in the Oak Grove with us)
We are creating a FAMILY REUNION with the audience that shows up (masked and properly spaced – we know the drill) We are thrilled to be working with local pros for the cousins, and are especially delighted that a vintage Airstream ‘cousin’ will be the center of attention. Last seen in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in Nov 2019 – we’ve all come a loooong way, baby.
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