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Tails of Wasps
New Century Theatre Company
(at ACT Theatre/Central Heating Lab)
Through April 27
A taut, world premiere morsel of explosion just opened via
New Century Theatre Company in ACT’s Buster’s Event Room. Tails of Wasps is a new play by their “resident playwright,”
Stephanie Timm. It is the next “must see” moment in a month of key moments,
here in Seattle! It is exquisite and exquisitely painful. It truly is as good
as good theater can get.
Timm has been known for some pretty far out playing,
including On the Nature of Dust,
where a teenage girl devolves from human into tinier and tinier animal species,
and mining fairytales and myths for Sweet
Nothing and part of ACT’s production of Ramayana.
This is nothing like any of those. It is a direct, real-human to real-human
mining of power and relationship and self-justification and self-delusion.