Author name: Marie Bonfils

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Deers or is it Cheers

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For their last Mid-week show of their 30th Season, Annex Theatre, presented Deers by Marcus Gorman, an entertaining spoof of the long running TV Sit-com Cheers. In four episodes spread over 11 years, they “aired” the pilot from Season 1, jumped to Season 5 in the next scene, and showed scenes from Season 8 and 11 after the intermission. However, instead of humans inhabiting a bar, there was a tight-knit group of friends, all of whom were animals, from different species, having various kinds of healthy and unhealthy social bar-like interaction.

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Curie Me Away did just that

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Well-behaved Women Rarely Win Nobel Prizes

Although many people know that Marie Curie and her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize for discovering radioactivity and some new elements, many people don’t know how many serious obstacles she had to overcome to win her first Nobel Prize in 1903. For example, by law as a woman Marie, (née Sklodowska) was forbidden to enroll in the university in Warsaw. All these obstacles as well as a few French ones, were illuminated in Curie Me Away, Matheater’s musical biography of this incredibly intelligent and tenacious woman.

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Calculus a Musical? Really!

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Dreaming of Differentials

A wet-dream encountering the inventor of Calculus (who incidentally probably died a virgin) is not exactly the high point of the week for any teen-age girl, especially when she previously considered Calculus a cure for insomnia. However, the full house at 18th and Union found Calculus the Musical, hysterically amusing as well as educational

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PREVIEW Schlong Song-Sexual Bildungsroman

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Too True Tales of Woody Shticks

“It’s the second cumming of Woody Shitcks solo sextravaganza! Stand-up storytelling, hip hop heroics, and emotionalnuddity collide in this smash-hit smackdown of sexual misadventure. Woody will take you on the scenic route to the bone zone-from his days inside a Puritan cult to his nights inside consenting adults-in this honest onslaught of hanky-panky hijinks!”

Although to some, this blurb might indicate that the show is ever so slightly over-the-top, I can truthfully say that yes it was, but at the same time, it was also endearing, universal and highly entertaining. Read the review of the show I saw in February:

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The Truth Be Told

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18th and Union, operating out of the New City space in the Central District, this past year has produced and hosted some incredible shows of the small cast variety, which have been a continuing source of creativity and joy. However, the latest show at 18th and Union, produced by the Training Grenades, however well-executed, was not exactly joyful.

Truth Be Told was four unnamed solo pieces, only one of which I would call a ten-minute play, the other three were solo monologues. Although the subject matter of three of the pieces were not quite my cup of tea, the actors, who all emanated from the graduate M.F.A. program at the UW, certainly demonstrated incredible talent and fine training.

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PREVIEW -Soirée Café-Théâtre

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Join in the fun with the nut-cases
La Cage aux Folles etc. in French

Les Seagulls, Seattle newest French language theatre troupe will be performing improv and sketch comedy on Friday June 16, at Kirkland’s Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church. Highlights will be a scene from La Cage aux Folles, the 1973 play by Jean Poiret, in which a middle-age drag queen tries to appear “matcho” when meeting his step-son’s ultra conservative anti-gay prospective in-laws. In addition there will be a parody of a TV quiz show, as well as solo monologues performed by Sébastien Plisson, Artistic Director of Les Seagulls.

Accompanying Sébatian will be: the three J’s: Jerome (Vasseur) Julien ( Bouétard) and Jessica ( Meer) as well as Nastia Kunderova.

The performance will be in French

Soirée Café-Théâtre Les Seagulls. 308-4th Ave S Kirkland, WA 98033. 7:30 Friday June 16 7:30 Suggested donation $5.00. Free for children under 12 Info:https://ufeseattle.wordpress.com/viepratique/seagulls/

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PREVIEW New Leaf-Sandbox Radio-Live-June 19

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Spectacular, Scintillating, Scrumptious and in Seattle !!!

Seattle-based Sandbox Radio recreates the classic radio variety show with a local twist. This all-new episode, a New Leaf, features new work written by Scot Augustson, Andrew Creech, Lisa Halpern, Elizabeth Heffron, musings from Peggy Platt, plus special guest – LISA KOCH. Soprano MEGAN CHENOVICK and tenor AARON SHANKS lead a choir of Seattle’s best voices in the finale from Bernstein’s CANDIDE. Classic King FM’s MARTA ZEKAN once again joins the sfx team. JOSE ‘JUICY’ GONZALES, Sandbox Radio’s original music director and composer returns. New Leaf is scored with live music and live sound effects and features the hottest actors and musicians in town. It is produced, directed and hosted by Leslie Law and Richard Ziman.

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Barbecue sizzles at Intiman

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Not your average Dr. Phil intervention

I must admit that when I first heard about Intiman’s new show Barbecue, by Robert O’Hara, about two families, one black, one white, having family interventions for drug-addicted sisters, written by guy with an Irish last name, I cringed. HELP !!!!
The only help I needed was help to stop laughing and occasionally crying, so that the actors on stage could get on with the play. Yes it was a) that funny b) that sad and c)that uplifting. Since nothing can top the eloquence of the director, so I will just quote her because it pretty much sums up what I took away from the play: “ People tend to embrace the things that make us different rather than the complexities that make us all human beings. We want to turn that idea on its head with this story.” And did it ever!!!!! Without ever sounding serious or pompous, the script itself was outrageously witty and the delivery was wittily outrageous.

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Life-All the answers in 8 minutes

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Preceding Something Incredible the light-hearted examination of the cosmos’ profound questions, Annex Theatre presented an adaptation of Chuck Mee’s play Life, produced by –filament; a collab lab

A solo piece starring Brittany Allyson, Life, actually does answer, in only 8 minutes, one of the great questions which concerns some but not all homo sapiens. Is life about discovering the ultimate truth? In the end a simple answer suffices.

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