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| Juliet Waller Pruzan and Bret Fetzer (photo Eli Pruzan) |
A long, long time ago, Juliet Waller Pruzan was a dancer and
choreographer and had a cool idea she wanted to make into a dance/theater
piece. She had a vision about people’s secrets flying out of them and getting
caught in the branches of a particular tree. She knew that Bret Fetzer wrote
original fairytales and performed them. She had seen him perform at On the
Boards 12 Minutes Max and decided
maybe he would be the guy who could help her create a performance.
There was magic in that request, apparently, because not
only did they create a ten minute piece and successfully apply to On the Boards
Northwest New Works festival (and entitle it The Gossip Tree), but they went on to create multiple more plays.
Their latest creation actually is a revision of their first
ten minute play, now entitled Lollyville
and produced by Macha Monkey,
a ”fearless, funny, female” theater company on stage May 2-24 (8pm) at RichardHugo House.Through
the years, they have revisited that initial concept and revised and revised and
now have a new concept.
Both Bret and Juliet have a history with the building the
theater is in. Juliet says, “I really love the theater and have a long history
of performing there when it was New City and danced there in the ‘90s.”