Author name: Marie Bonfils

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Seascape

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Homo sapiens discuss life and art with Lizards

Edward Albee’s play Seascape opened at Theatre Schmeater this past weekend. Written in 1975, it seemed incredibly dated, but dealt with one of Albee’s favourite themes, conflicts between married couples. However, in this play the conflict is not of the pathological alcohol-induced variety, as in his more famous play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, but rather the problem all couples go through at mid-life when they have to reassess their own individual lives in relation to their married lives.

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Blood Relations-Lizzie Borden’s

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Lizzie Bordon took an axe

And gave her Mother forty wacks

And when the job was nicely done

She gave her Father forty-one

Written by distinguished Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations opened this weekend Theatre with a bang. No pun intended; it was a fabulous production of an intelligent well-crafted play about a difficult subject: What compels a well-bred person to murder her closest relatives?

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The Mountaintop

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He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve seen the Promised Land

I MAY NOT GET THERE WITH YOU

Were the prophetic words spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968.

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Preview: The Iceman Cometh-A “Concert” Reading-

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Waiting for O’Neill

Strange as it may seem, there has never been a professional production of one of the great Masterpieces of American Theatre in Seattle- Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh- until now. Endangered Species Project in conjunction with ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab, is producing a “concert” reading of The Iceman Cometh on Monday, September 25. Since the play is thematically linked to “Waiting for Godot” it will be performed on the same set, which is now playing at ACT Theatre.

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Back to School-Sandbox Radio

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Toto, this doesn’t seem like Lake Woebegone, it seems like Seattle.

Although Sandbox Radio’s fall production Back to School, follows the format of a traditional radio program of instrumental and vocal music, short dramatic sketches, PSA’s and advertisements, it is so laden with irreverence, that it can hardly be called traditional.

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The Break of Noon

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“ I alone was spared”

Presented by React Theatre, Neil LaBute’s Break at Noon opened at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, in West Seattle on Friday. John Smith, the sole survivor of a mass shooting, supposedly undergoes a religious experience and wishes to tell the press, his family and the whole world about it.

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Death and the Maiden

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Death and the Maiden misses the point.

The political psychological drama, Death and the Maiden by Chilean/Argentine writer Ariel Dorfman presented by the latinotheatreproject at Ballard Underground opened this past weekend. Set in an unnamed South American Country, after democracy has been re-instated, following a brutally repressive dictatorship, a married couple, Geraldo and Paulina, accidently encounter the wife’s former torturer/rapist.

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Black Comedy and Sure Thing

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Peter Shaffer’s 1965 Black Comedy, preceded by David Ives ten-minute “curtain-warmer Sure Thing, opened at Strawberry Workshop at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway on Thursday night. Although the curtain warmer was funnier than the main attraction, they were both hilarious.

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Life=Play, An Evening of Short Works and Rarities by Samuel Beckett

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Beckett en français était formidable

The Seattle Beckett Festival opened this week at West of Lenin with Life=Play an Evening of Short Works and Rarities by Samuel Beckett. Of the four plays presented, two were absolute duds, one was reasonably entertaining and the fourth, La dernière bande ( Krappe’s Last Tape), presented in French, reached into the stratosphere of delight.

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