Archive | February, 2012

A Single Shard debuts at Seattle Children’s Theatre

26 Feb

What happens when a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright takes on a Newberry Award-

Jason Ko as Tree Ear in "A Single Shard." Photo by Chris Bennion.

Jason Ko as Tree Ear in "A Single Shard." Photo by Chris Bennion.

winning author’s story about 12th century Korea, Single Shard? Something refreshing.

As tastefully restrained spectacles go, there aren’t many shows that can compete with the new play, A Single Shard, which had its world premiere at Seattle Children’s Theatre on Feb. 24. Clay pots are created and destroyed on stage; life-size crane, deer and fox puppets alternately menace and enchant; and dancers in swishing silks enact 12th-century Korean dances to music that is both spare and haunting.

- Read review at Crosscut.com.

‘The Young Man from Atlanta’ asks, does the truth help us?

23 Feb

The American dream as a guiding star, historic relic, or unreachable aspiration has been

Will Kidder is confronted with unpleasant truths in "The Young Man from Atlanta." Photo by Armen Stein.

Will Kidder is confronted with unpleasant truths in "The Young Man from Atlanta." Photo by Armen Stein.

both studied and sullied by playwrights for decades. Never more so than in Horton Foote’s powerful opus, The Young Man from Atlanta, which made its Seattle debut at Stone Soup Theatre on Friday (Feb. 17).

- Read review at Crosscut.com.

Poetry+Motion at Town Hall combined poetry, dance, and African-American experiences

21 Feb

February is the month of love and the month of African American history. On Feb. 19, the

Dancer Scott Bartell and poet Alvin Lloyd Alexander Horn. Photo courtesy of Jack Storms/Storms Photographic.

Dancer Scott Bartell and poet Alvin Lloyd Alexander Horn. Photo courtesy of Jack Storms/Storms Photographic.

Seattle-based performing arts project, Poetry+Motion, presented the results of an innovative collaboration between local black poets and dancers. “Love, Our History” featured dancers performing self-choreographed numbers inspired by original poems, which were read aloud by the poets as accompaniment to the dance performances in lieu of music.

- Read review at Crosscut.com.

Let’s get naked … on stage

17 Feb

The difference between being naked and being nude lies at the crux of “See Me

Award-winning actor and playwright Maria Glanz exposes her body and soul in her comedic monologue, “See Me Naked.” Photo by Omar Willey.

Award-winning actor and playwright Maria Glanz exposes her body and soul in her comedic monologue, “See Me Naked.” Photo by Omar Willey.

Naked,” an award-winning monologue by Seattle actor Maria Glanz that has been remounted at West of Lenin this month, more than a decade after its debut.

Being naked means being embarrassed, deprived of covering, and ultimately ashamed. Nudity, on the other hand, is without discomfort; a condition of utter confidence. As Glanz struggles throughout the hour-long piece to get out of her clothing, she is in truth wrestling with the dichotomy of her fear of nakedness and her desire for nudity.

- Read review at Crosscut.com.

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