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| Queen (Pankaj Luthra) |
There aren’t that many new shows opening this month, but
there are plenty of Shakespeares to see in parks and a few shows that opened at
the very end of July. Hope you are having a wonderful and entertaining summer!
Blood Wedding, The Williams Project, 8/2-4/2018 (at
Equinox Studios)
This is a dry-run toward a full production sometime next
year. In an isolated village, a bride is visited on her wedding day by a former
lover, sparking a sequence of events that will shock everyone from the flower
girl to the Moon itself. The Williams Project will bring the whole town to life
in song, dance, and verse. With some of the best poetry ever written, in a
seldom-seen translation by famed American poet Langston Hughes, Blood Wedding will explode and expand
our understanding of love, violence, race, gender, sex, and community.
Queen, Pratidhwani and ACT Theatre, 8/3-19/18
PhD candidates Sanam and Ariel have spent the better part of
the last decade exhaustively researching vanishing bee populations across the
globe. Just as these close friends are about to publish a career-defining
paper, Sanam stumbles upon an error, which could jeopardize their reputations,
careers, and friendship. How far will you go to defend your ethics and
standards of integrity, and at what cost? Queen
by Madhuri Shekar is a play about pursuit of truth, relationships, and bees.
The Rules of Charity,
Sound Theatre Company, 8/4-25/18 (Seattle
Center Armory)
The late John Belluso, a playwright who championed honest
portrayals of people with disabilities, wrote this play about an older
generation clashing with a younger. This “lacerating critique of altruism” (SF
Weekly) focuses on Monty, a brilliant father who has Cerebral Palsy and uses a
wheelchair. He spars with his care-taker daughter in the haunting relationship
at the heart of this play that examines what it means to be disabled and
marginalized in modern American society. Contains Mature Content.
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