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| Cast of Goblin Market at Sound Theatre Company (Julia Nardin) |
There are still plenty of shows to see in August, especially
in neighborhood parks, but only a few debuting this month. Including a show
that didn’t make the July cut off, here is a list of productions opening in
August.
American
Archipelago, Pony World
Theatre, July 27-August 12 (at 12th Avenue Arts)
This new play examines the joys
and heartaches of being an American today. The script was collaboratively composed
by Holly Arsenault, Kelleen C. Blanchard, Tré Calhoun, Vincent Delaney, Brendan
Healy, Maggie Lee, Sara Porkalob, and Seayoung Yim. We welcome you to a quaint
little neighborhood called the United States of America. Upscale and working class,
where suburban streets wind through packed city blocks, this neighborhood feels
like a community - and a powder keg. White picket fences will blur and the American
tapestry will start to unravel. Eight next door neighbors from Nashville and
New York and Montana and San Francisco will gather at the big block party cookout
to grill hotdogs, share recipes, fall in love, murder chickens, and finally
tell each other what they think.
Over & Under, Annex Theatre, August 1-16 (Tue/Wed
nites)
Playwrights Bret Fetzer and Juliet Waller Pruzan present two
intricate one-act plays. Cumulus
begins on an airplane, where conversations between strangers reveal the
passengers' complex lives; Turnstile begins
on a subway car where a young girl, riding alone for the first time, finds her
imagination sparked by overheard conversations. Both plays spin off into
alternative lives, some mundane, some dramatic, some completely fantastical.
Goblin Market, Sound Theatre Company, August 10-27 (Seattle
Armory)
Based on the poem by Victorian Era poet Christina Rosetti,
this musical blends music, poetry and imagery to journey through the psyches
of two sisters. The siblings, Laura and Lizzie, return to
their old nursery and unlock the women’s shared past in a child’s game of
make-believe. The
nursery magically becomes a woodland glen of menacing
“goblin fruit merchant men” and one sister Laura, is enticed by the
magical goblins and their luscious fruits and promises of unimagined
ecstasies. The other sister, Lizzie, bargains anxiously with the goblins
to save her sister from forever falling under their spell. This market of
goblins forces the sisters to explore and question the present Victorian
world they inhabit as women and reconcile that with the erotic yearnings of
their adolescence.
Proof, Proof Porch Project, various porches,
all performances 6:00p.m.
Beacon Hill: 3820 13th Ave S, 98108 (August 11-13)
North Seattle: 13519 23rd Ave NE, 98125 (August 18-20)
Burien: 12827 3rd Ave S, 98168 (August 25-27)
Proof introduces a
brilliant mathematical father and two daughters who struggle with his mental
illness and a suspicion that one daughter has perhaps inherited her father’s
condition. Proof Porch Project is presenting it free of charge in a bilingual
English-Spanish format. They believe
that viewing it through a Latinx lens adds extra layers to the play’s already
complex character relationships, which are not only affected by mental illness,
but also by language and their ability to identify with their household
culture.
Much Better, Really-Really Theatre Group, August
18-September 2 (12th Avenue Arts)
A new play by Elisabeth Frankel, Much Better, was a semi-finalist for the 2017 O’Neill National
Playwrights Conference. In an overconnected, information-saturated world,
Ashley is diagnosed with a condition known as hyper-empathy. She finds it
difficult to hold a job, maintain relationships, and otherwise cope with the
emotional demands of her everyday life. When Ashley is introduced to a new
medical procedure known as Neuroclear, she sees a chance to create a new,
better version of herself. A fresh look into our relationships with the world,
technology and our best self, and the ethical limits of the use of technology
as means for self-improvement.
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