” Life was happening to me at an alarming rate and it was not of my making”
Was among the numerous witty and profound quotes that made me laugh and cry at the same time as I sat through 25,000 Post-A New Construction at West of Lenin, an outstanding solo performance by veteran actor Jim Lapan.
Show Business is not a Disease….That is the Question.
Is the essence of the “plot” of this Vaudeville/Musical, The Grimaldi’s A Musical Ghost Story, by Dane Ballard, which opened Friday night.
Emperor’s New Clothes
Written by Spike Friedman, Returning to Albert Joseph was a feeble attempt at a post-apocalyptic play, which also had dystopian elements. Although the dialogue was fairly well-written, the structure of the play was so poor that the supposedly profound message fell absolutely flat.
Combination of Science and Magic in an Imperfect Rapport
Currently running at Theatre off Jackson in the International District, Live Girls Quickies #15, is the 15th year of original short plays by women playwrights about life as females. The unifying theme of the evening was science and magic, which worked well for some of the playwrights, was ignored by others and seemed to derail other scripts.
Expressing Extreme Wisdom Through Humor and Self-Mocking.
It is often said that, unlike Protestants, Jews and Catholics looooove jokes about themselves, the craziness of their culture, their religion, their semi-pagan rituals, their theology and their sense of “otherness”.
Anything but Immediate
Mark, the evangelist, was one of 70 Disciples of Christ and the founder and later Bishop of the Church of Alexandria in Egypt. Twenty-five years after Jesus’ death in 30 AD, he wrote down, presumably in Greek, the oral stories and legends about His life, which we know today as the Gospel according to Mark. Since his Gospels were the first ones to be written down, they are considered the most direct, best-written, with a coherent plot and the most dramatic.
Appealing to Sci-Fi Lovers as well as Sci-Fi Loathes
Arguably the most creative and well-scripted comedy act ever produced in Seattle (or for that matter the world) Moby Alpha played to a full house this weekend at Ballard Underground.
Truth, Sadness and Endearing Humor
At Kenyon Hall in West Seattle, 12th Night Productions presented A…My name is Alice, a musical revue conceived by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd, which originally opened in New York City in 1983. With 21 songs by composers David Zippel, Winnie Holzman, and Lucy Simon, as well as sketches and monologues, the audience is kept amused and engaged for two hours.
Unraveling the Knot
Gidion’s Knot, a highly entertaining two-woman play about an extremely disturbing topic opened this past weekend at the Seattle Public Theatre. Directed superbly by SPT’s artistic director Shana Bestock, written by Johnna Adams, two local actresses starred and sparred for 70 minutes of high drama, in a highly charged conversational tango.
All bad Chekhov productions are alike; this good production of Chekhov is good in its own unique way. Uncle Vanya
