Creative, Technically Impressive Comedy
Written by Ken Ludwig, Baskerville, an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskerville’s, opened at Harlequin Productions in Olympia this weekend. With umpteen interior and exterior scene changes and three actors playing 40 roles, many with different accents, it was a tour-de-force of technical skill and creativity on the part of director Corey McDaniel.
A Christmas Carol at Harlequin Productions
A perfect way to settle into the Holiday spirit, Harlequin’s last production of the year is a classic retelling of an everlasting Christmas story. Originally written by Charles Dickens in 1843, A Christmas Carol follows a bitter old man, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and four spirits that come to him on Christmas eve. The ghosts of a former business partner and three iterations of the Christmas spirit urge him to follow a path of kindness in his life. This would result in more happiness for those around him and for him as well. A largely popular story, it has never been out of print and has been reproduced countless times for plays, films, operas, television, ballets and others.
Written by Lucienne Aggarwal and Robert Horton While some stories fade into irrelevancy over time, great American playwright Lanford Wilson’s
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.
