Author name: Marie Bonfils

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18th and Union-Spring Short Play Festival

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Plays with themes of flowers.

18th and Union is hosting its fourth annual Spring Shot festival, featuring their co-producing artists a for the three weekends! This celebration of our diverse garden of artists features 22 shorts organized in 6 collections billed as greenhouses running April 21st – May 7th! Sliding scale tickets are available for both in-person or streamed viewings.

Spring Shot Festival. 18th & Union. 1406-18th Ave, Central District, Seattle, WA 98112 (Corner of 18th and Union-5 Blocks East of the 23rd Ave PCC). Three weekends April 21st-May 7th, Friday 7 pm , Saturda y9 pm and Sunday 6 pm

For Full Schedule and Tickets: https://v6.click4tix.com/event-details.php?e=431593

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Roost-Play Reading at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Institute

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Roost, Public Reading of play about Black women and reality TV

Reality television is everywhere. But behind gaffer-taped, sound-bite confessionals, what is life like after getting a final rose or being voted off an island? In the new play Roost, Sound Theatre playwright-in-resident Zharia O’ Neal chronicles various post-reality arcs of Black women for the Roost public reading at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Directed by Aviona Rodriguez Brown, the reading is a culmination of Sound Theatre’s first William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Playwright Residency cycle, through the Making Waves New Works program. There will also be a Talkback to follow, as well as a reception by Thyme Well Spent, a Black-owned business.

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Dice-Keeper 12th Night-Delightfully Creative Shakespeare

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Throwing the dice to determine who played each role was the least off-beat thing about this enchantingly funny production.

I have to confess, unlike many people I know, that I love updated productions of the classics, but only if the social dynamics and plot fit with the concept. Dacha Theatre’s production of Dice Keeper-12th Night, more than managed to do this, while presenting one of the most creative, spontaneous and enjoyable shows I have EVER seen. It was truly beguiling and by chance had a certain historical authenticity to the casting. i.e. There really was a male actor playing a female character, who has to pretend to be a man in the script.

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Hamlet (Varorium)

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“Why, What a Dunghill Idiot Slave am I,”

Is not a line from Monty Python or Saturday Night Live, but is, in fact, from the first draft of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, preserved in what is called the First Quarto, circa 1603. The second quarto Q2 dates from 1604. However, the text with which we are all familiar is the First Folio F1, dating from 1623.

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Playborhood: An Improvised Neighborhood with Styles-Completely Unexpected at Unexpected Productions

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Creativity and Humor at Unexpected Productions.

It was with great pleasure that I was able to see and participate in a full-length improvised play at Unexpected Productions last night, called Playborhood-An Improvised Neighborhood with Style. Its rather zany concept engendered one of the most creative and stimulating premises of any improvisational act or for that matter, polished performance, I have seen in a long time.

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Building Madness-A 1930’s Screwball Comedy at Harlequin

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Building Madness, a Double-Entendre if there ever was one.

The title of Kate Danley’s play, which just opened at Harlequin Productions, Building Madness, can be read two ways. Building can be a noun, meaning a “building” that is to say a structural edifice of bricks and mortar or other materials) or it can mean to develop, foster, encourage, or create. Both are applicable to this excellent script, a revival of 1930’s screwball comedy.

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