Who then,….am I
Is the question which keeps being asked in Screaming Butterflies’ flawless production of Orlando, playwright Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolfe’s 1928 novel of the same name, which opened this past weekend at the Merlino Arts Center in Tacoma.
In one man’s battle between good and evil, the lines are often blurred.
This past weekend, Dukesbay Productions opened Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, playwright Jeffry Harcher’s stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First published in 1886, that is to say during the latter part of the Victoria era, when moral hypocrisy was rampant and the study of the brain and behavior or what we know as psychology was turning traditional thinking upside down. It was highly controversial. 
Drama and Dreams in the Café
Dukesbay Productions, a wonderful Theatre company in Tacoma opened its fifth episode of an ongoing series, Java 5 Tacoma -Game of Scones, at the Merlino Arts Center in downtown Tacoma. Be prepared for an evening of laughter, irony and poking fun at just about everything fashionable in the Northwest; it is all there, jokes about how bad vegan cooking is, how detestable gluten-free baking is, online entrepreneurship, how nasty even local politics can be and some Monty Pythonish dream sequences.
