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Script Tease- Magnificent, Stupendous, Outstanding and every other superlative

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Even with the help of a thesaurus, it is difficult to find the right words to express how amazing Script Tease was. Amazingissimo? Seriously Annex’s Research and Development’s off night “project” was quite unbelievable. First of all there was the process, which was truly intriguing.

Take a talented playwright, have her write six pages of a play for six actors, then let the actors complete the rest of the play by improvisation. The end product-a 90 minute performance- was as hilariously funny, fast-paced, witty and polished as any play. Laughter erupted on average about every 30 seconds as the actors moved the plot right along, developed their characters, while establishing great rapport with the audience.

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MacBeth-The Definitive Production

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Five Star Production of MacBeth

It was with great delight that I attended Fern Shakespeare’s truly magnificent inaugural production, MacBeth, this past weekend at Seattle Center’s Theatre 4. Everything about this production was outstanding, and what set it apart from other Shakespeare productions around the Sound, was the uniform quality of the cast’s vocal production. Every actor spoke “trippingly on the tongue” and the elevated language was communicated directly to the audience. Truly this is the best Shakespeare I have ever seen in Seattle.

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Richard III – à la Chinoise

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The Royal Family of England portrayed as 1920’s Gangsters in Chinatown

If you have ever wondered why King Henry VIII of England was so obsessed with having a legitimate male heir, read the Shakespearean plays set during the during the War of the Roses. Shakespeare’s rendering of the end of these dynastic wars, when two rival branches of the royal family, the Yorks and the Lancasters, fought endlessly for the disputed crown of England, opened this weekend at Theater off Jackson. Produced by Rebatensemble Theatre Group, director Elizabeth Wu, staged Richard III in Chinatown in the 1920’s, with the Yorks and Lancasters, as rival gangs of speakeasy owners i.e. gangsters.

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…And Starring Claire From Hollywood: New Play Review

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As the summer blockbusters start to roll out, Macha Monkey Productions presents a small-scale story that’ll get big laughs at 18th & Union. …And Starring Claire From Hollywood, a new comedy by Jim Moran, is full of humanity, heart, and humor, all in a small town Pacific Northwest setting.
… And Starring Claire From Hollywoo” tells the story of a D-list Hollywood actress, the titular Claire, who returns to her hometown on the Oregon coast…

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Review-THE FUN AND FANTASY of THE MAGIC FLUTE

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You know you’re in for a comic treat of an opera when after an introductory serving of serious music, you’re greeted with the specter of a hapless prince being mauled by a dragon. The Magic Flute is a mash-up of genres- part fairy tale, part circus and part religious pageant flouting astronomy and ancient Egypt. Here spectacle reigns supreme. The opera is packed full of sensory overload, with treats for the eyes, ears and the mind too. Seattle Opera’s newest production of The Magic Flute just opened at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center and will run till May 21st.

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Seattle Shakespeare’s Midsummer Taps into Something Special

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Director George Mount notes that Seattle Shakespeare has been nurturing the idea of a 40’s musical style Midsummer Night’s Dream for twenty years. Their vision finally hits the stage in the troupe’s closing production for the season. Nir Sadovik wrote the original tunes used for the show. The concept: put Shakespeare’s lines directly into 30’s and 40’s style songs and intertwine the tunes within the Midsummer script.

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Preview-“Money and Run” Marathon

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Run a Marathon to get tickets to the “Money and Run” Marathon

To mark the 25th anniversary of Theater Schmeater, the first three episodes of Wayne Rawley’s popular and hilarious trailer trash send-up series, Money and Run will be revived. Three episodes Money Take Run, Of Nuns and Ninjas and Last Dance will be presented in a festival schedule, between May 10 and June 10. Directed by the author himself, the cast includes two of the most hilarious actors in town: Megan Ahiers and Lisa Viertel.

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Something Incredible-Annex’s Research and Development Wing

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On discovering the truth.
We may never even know all the questions.

As part of their Research and Development Wing project, Annex Theatre presented Something Incredible, written and devised by playwright Natalie Copeland and Emily Harvey along with an ensemble of seven highly talented female performers. In an evening of subtle humor, the play focused on the great metaphysical questions of science and religion: Why are we here? What are the scientific explanations for creation as well as the creation myths. How is human spirituality related to nuclear fission? And of course the greatest question of all: will we ever know the truth about these great questions.

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