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The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge at the Taproot

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Playwright Mark Brown poses the question: “Can Scrooge learn yet another life lesson?” with his holiday farce The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. The play revolves around Old Scrooge charging Jacob Marley and the Christmas Spirits with trespassing, kidnapping, assault and battery. The stakes are not enormously high here; how much can be emotionally invested in a lawsuit against a bevy of ghosts? But uniformly solid acting and a clever surprise ending provide enough fun to send us out into the Seattle winter night with a good amount of holiday cheer.

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Peter Antoniou: Happy Medium

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In his first-ever U.S. tour comedian Peter Antoniou shows off the skills that have made him an underground hit in the U.K. He’s charming, witty, can work an audience, and just might be able to read your mind.

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Traces of Brilliance in ReAct’s Brilliant Traces

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Bride Stumbles into a Remote Cabin in Alaska

In these days of endless agonizing political hand-wringing, React Theatre offers a brilliant antidote. Brilliant Traces, a delightfully tragic and tragically delightful two- person play, now playing at the Prima Vera Arts Center is guaranteed to get your mind off the election as you laugh as well as cry in this tale of love and loss

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“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” Questions Obedience to Authority

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What can a censored artist do?

I watched the Seattle premiere of a play in search of a genre: White Rabbit Red Rabbit By Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour at 18th and Union. Billed as a one-act play for an actor that has never read the script, the show also draws into the performance lots of people in the audience.

In the role of “the actor” this evening was Kate Jaeger. Most recently she served as the co-host of this year’s Gregory Awards.

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A Piece of My Heart

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It’s an incredible tragedy that when Americans remember our modern war heroes we largely forget about the thousands of heroines that served along with them.

During the Vietnam War, about 11,000 women were stationed in the country, according to the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation. The majority served as nurses, about 90 percent, but some also served as physicians, intelligence officers and air traffic controllers.

Nearly all the women in Vietnam were volunteers.

“A Piece of My Heart” follows six young women thrown into a war zone on a story of calamity, confusion and inner conflict that is rarely seen in popular war stories. This story is unique not only in that it shows the war through women’s eyes but also because it focuses on battles behind the frontlines.

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