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An Intimate “Twelfth Night, Or What You Will” at the Slate

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Fern Shakespeare Company brings us now an intimate and funny Twelfth Night, Or What You Will at their new home: The Slate Theater. Using the performance method called Original Practice, director Wiley Basho Gorn, set a slow open to the show. The cast enters the stage and casually talk with the audience about everyday matters such as, what brought us out tonight, or how far did we travel. One can ask questions, I asked, “Who are you playing tonight.” I happened to be talking to Camille van Putten: “Viola.” “Oh, you have a lot of lines.” I’m not quite backstage, yet she’s not fully in role either.

My short exchange with an actor sampled the close contact of audience and performer common in Shakespeare’s time.

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Waiting for the Paint to Dry

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The Addiction of Matyrdom

Kairos Theatre Company, a new theatre in town, which focuess on works “celebrating the various and multifaceted aspects of the feminine journey” opened an original script Waiting for the Paint to Dry by K.E. Jenkins at 18th and Union, in Seattle’s Central District. It deals with one of the most feminine of all subjects, our tendency to be “Caretakers without Boundaries,” that is to say how caretaking can become unhealthy and destructive.

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Saroyan Brilliantly Reconstructed at Washington Hall

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William Saroyan once described his 1939 award winning play, “The Time of Your Life” as “a circus, an essay, a vaudeville…a comedy, a tragedy, a lecture—anything you want it to be. It was way out there, radical and all over the map for its time.” Saroyan’s spirit should be smiling broadly over the wild shenanigans conjured up by director Ryan Guzzo Purcell and the Williams Project for its production of his work currently on display at the Washington Hall. In his program notes Purcell explains that he wants to “blow some dust off, find what remains and make room for something new” for this American classic. You really should see for yourself how successfully the director and his team meet their dramatic goals.

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EXTENDED RUN: Indy Jones at the Bathhouse

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O Joy, O Rapture Unexpected

Due to popular demand, The Habit’s newest show, Indy Jones Indy Jones and the Raiders of the Last Temple of the Doomed Ark is extended! After a hugely successful opening weekend, The Habit is excited to announce that it has extended this summer blockbuster through September 22, 2019.

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Sound Theatre Company Stages US Premiere of Peeling

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Playwright Kaite O’Reilly requires that “peeling”, a one-act she wrote in 2002, be performed by deaf and disabled actors. She has rejected a number of US theaters’ requests that would not honor these parameters. Seattle’s Sound Theatre Company was ready and willing to provide the needed authentic casting and so has the privilege of staging the US premiere of this thought provoking and unique dramatic experience. The work somehow blends Beckett’s sense of the absurd and Ibsen-like stringent calls to action with the grandeur of a Euripides’ Greek tragedy. This off-the-wall mixture produces a dynamic night of theater.

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