Disenchanted (Erin Ewing) |
The weekend of July 14 and 15 is the annual Seattle Outdoor
Theater Festival! (http://greenstage.org/sotf/)
with free Shakespeare and kid plays for an entire weekend! It is the official
launch of the summer park plays all over the area. In addition, there are two
big musicals, Lauren Weedman coming back to town with a solo show, and a few
world premieres to check out. No one is sitting out this summer seaon doing
nothing – so get out yer calendars!
Family Matters, ReACT Theatre,
7/6-28/18 (at 12th Avenue Arts) (world premiere)
Local playwright
Rachel Atkins has crafted a new play, set in the backyard of the
Horowitz-Yamasaki-Bloom family home. This multi-generational
Jewish-American-transracial family gathers for their traditional Mother’s Day
celebration with bagels and lox and Korean potato salad. Everyone arrives with
secrets, and as the afternoon progresses, their revelations bring out their complicated
hidden truths, while examining the myriad expectations, responsibilities and
roles that women face in every modern family. An insightful, humorous and
affecting new look at the ties and traditions that bind.
The League of Youth,
Theatre9/12, 7/6-29/18
A Henrik Ibsen play, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher in 2017,
focuses on a young liberal, frustrated by the cronyism of politics. He creates
a “League of Youth” to lobby against the establishment. Ibsen’s only comedy
caused rioting in the streets: conservatives claimed it was an attack on their
party, and liberals claimed it was an attack on theirs!