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‘A Hand of Talons’ A Winning Premiere

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World Premiere Mash-Up of the Wild Wild West and The Godfather

Director Amy Poisson teams up with writer Maggie Lee and Pork Filled Productions (PFP) for a third time to bring us A Hand of Talons. This plays returns us to the fictional city of New Providence, the setting for their previous collaborations—the 2015 Tumbleweed Zephyr and the 2013 The Clockwork Professor.

The genre is steampunk, the drama twirls around the rivalry of siblings competing to lead the Yao Chinese crime family that runs the casino and other operations in New Providence. This is perhaps the goriest of the three plays as the struggle for recognition, power, and dominance plus a betrayal take their toll. The acting is melodramatic, to match the time period, and fully engaging.

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Death of a Salesman

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The Underbelly of the American Dream.

Standing ovations often are not well-deserved; however the truly magnificent production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner Death of Salesman, at Artswest, more than deserved the standing ovation, it received at the curtain call on Saturday night. Artistic Director Mathew Wright, took this superb well-constructed play, found an outstanding cast and kept me riveted for three hours. It is clearly the best show I have seen all year.

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The Things are against Us

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The Script was against Us

One of the big problems with a lot of modern playwrighting is that it is influenced by screen-writing. As a result, plays are rendered into too many short scenes, taking place in vastly different interior and exterior spaces. The results are virtually un-stageable unless you have the resources of Disney on Broadway. WET’s new production The Things Are Against Us, was one of these scripts.

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Sherlock Holmes and The American Problem—The Game’s Afoot at the Seattle Rep

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The Seattle Rep’s closing piece for this season was actually born from the overwhelming success of its 2013 production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Apparently the cast, crew and audiences had such a great time with that show it was a no-brainer to bring back the famous British sleuth for another go. Rather than returning to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s canon, the Rep has turned to local actor and playwright R. Hamilton Wright to create an original Holmes story that has the detective immersed in a wild tale featuring some of his most famous antagonists as well as matching wits and skills with America’s very own Annie Oakley. The imaginative blend makes for a fun spring evening at the theater.

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Love, Loss, and What I Wore

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Seattle Premiere

Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron is based on the surprise hit book by Ilene Beckerman. The play begins as Gingy (representing Beckerman) describes herself as an ordinary person who was bored one day and began to sketch dresses she had owned. She discovered that during many important events in her life she vividly recalled what she’d worn. She worked up this idea and sent copies to her family and a couple of best friends. One of those friends sent it to a publisher where the largely female staff circulated it among themselves and added post-it notes of their own recollections. In 1995 the publisher gave the book a chance

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Words and Bees-Live Radio Performance

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Radio Theatre Live coming to Seattle’s Town Hall, Monday April 25th.

Sandbox Radio newest live radio show, the Words and the Bees will be performed at Town Hall on First Hill in Seattle, on Monday, April 25th at 8 pm.

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