Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat opened at Seattle Public Theatre on Friday. It tells the tale of two minors, age 12 and 16, who have been abandoned by their father to fend for themselves, after the death of their mother. Complicating the situation is the gay boyfriend of the 16-year, whose fundamentalist mother throws him out of the house, after she ferrets out that he is actively gay.
Love’s Labour’s Lost could be entitled Lust’s Labour’s Lost, because its central theme is that the expressions of love may be just as self-indulgent as lust and that is advisable before marriage distinguish between hormonal love and husband material. To emphasize the self-indulgent nature of men, the director of Seattle Shakespeare’s current production of LLL, Jon Kretzu, opens the play the morning after a party of the Bright Young Things of the 1920’s immortalized by Evelyn Waugh in numerous novels including Vile Bodies and Brideshead Revisited.
One thing is certain: the name of this theatre company is quite fitting given the amount of love and passion
Say what you will about class warfare – it sure makes for wonderful drama. David Lindsay-Abaire’s latest
One of the truly distressing things about American Shakespeare productions is that they are usually staged as fossilized productions, set in the era in which they were written. Drawing loosely on the plot, power-dynamics and characters of Much Ado about Nothing, Paper Bullets, by John A. Ellis, is set in contemporary Hollywood.
Getting it Right:Her-Stories in Seattle’s Grunge Rock Past Our memories grow shorter and shorter. Many young people today know little
Hippiecrit-Theatre off Jackson Solo Performance Festival
I want to change the world, I just don’t feel like it.
Written and performed by Bhama Roget, Hippiecrit was the opening performance of Theatre off Jackson’s Solo Performance Festival, and the opening line was one of the funniest one liners in the history of comedy
