Last Stop on Lilac rivals Murder on Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood is full of Dead Dreams Just as we are hearing the worst about Hollywood, Annex Theatre, has produced Last […]
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Sycorax Is Loved
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Tempest, Y York’s Sycorax is a powerful monodrama independent of the influencing work,
Script Tease- Magnificent, Stupendous, Outstanding and every other superlative
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.
Something Incredible-Annex’s Research and Development Wing
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.
Sex with Strangers
ReAct Theatre Celebrates 24 Years with the Seattle Premiere of Sex with Strangers
Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers has a solid Seattle Premiere in the capable hands of director David Hsieh of ReAct Theatre. This is ReAct’s first show at 12th Avenue Arts on Capitol Hill.
Hsieh has apparently a lucky hand to be the first to bring this 2009 play here as this play’s themes resonate across several local communities. The play ponders questions about internet technology versus old school paper books in our outerworld. Deeper questions reflect tensions within and between writers as they cope with feeling under-appreciated versus over-hyped for the wrong reasons and their impacts on our innerworlds.
This play has one audience among the many people working in tech, and another among the many writers and their readers who fill the Seattle Arts & Lectures talks and populate all those classes at Hugo House.
Bright Half Life: New Representations of Time, Space and Love
“Do you think forwards or backwards or somewhere in the present?” All three, Bright Half Life answers for the audience
Beautiful Theory: Proof Talks You Through It
Proof, written by David Auburn and directed by Greg Carter, is The Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s ensemble’s beautiful, suspenseful stage production.
The Lost Girls
This Is Not Your Average All-Girls Summer Camp
The Lost Girls is a truly rare production that has you laughing your heart out and thinking about some of the world’s most pressing ideological concerns at the same time: sexuality, feminism, and privilege. Running from October 28th to November 19th at Annex Theater in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, this is a production that will do anything (and everything) but disappoint.
The Pride by Theatre Twenty-Two
In Theatre Twenty-Two’s production of The Pride, audiences are swept back in time to 1958 before being brought to the more modern 2008 interchangeably as they follow the often complicated and captivating lives of the two main characters. Philip (Andre Nelson) and Oliver (Trevor Young Marston) are two young men living in London who are struggling with their sexuality within the social constraints of the societies they’re living in.
The Big Meal-Scrumptious
A Collision of Risk and Craft
Darragh Kennan, Artistic Director of New Century Theatre stated in the program notes of their latest production, The Big Meal, that NTC is interested in “the collision of risk and craft.” They may be INTERESTED in the COLLISION of risk and craft, but what I saw was an inspired perfect ALLOY of risk and craft, creating something that was more potent than either pure element.
The set and staging of The Big Meal, created the perfect medium to express the subject matter; the “moments” in our lives which define and reinforce our connection to our families. With an outstanding cast, an exceptionally able director, Makaela Pollock, a superb set, effective sound & lighting and a Master playwright, Dan LeFranc, the Big Meal served up a scrumptious evening.