James Lapan in his solo show 25,000 Posts (John Ulman) |
In May, 2014, he has a two week stand at West of Lenin
performing this show and he is remounting it at the Penthouse Theatre on UW
Campus from September 12-14 (tickets at brownpapertickets.com
- Jim says it’s basically by donation and no one will be turned away for lack
of funds!).
I asked Jim about his playwriting experience. He says, “I
tend to write a play every eight to ten years. I (recently) contributed to The Betty Plays, a collection of four
short plays for Betty Campbell to play. (Note:
Betty Campbell is a long-time Seattle actor who is getting to an age where standing
and acting is a problem and four playwrights contributed to a special work
where she specifically could act sitting down!) Mine was adapted from a news
story about an 83 year old woman who had to land a plane when her pilot husband
had a cardiac incident.
“(The seeds of this play came out of writing for a) 14/48
production in 2012. The theme was “how did this happen” and I wrote a play
called “Short Sales” with a
cartoon-like storytelling about how someone could end up with a house in a short
sale situation. It was less fictional than I expected my writing to be.