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Running July 9-10, Sat. & Sun. @ 2pm
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2003-2004 SeasonRon Sandahl, Artistic DirectorMonica Blum, Managing Director Miller Freeman, Production Manager Open Circle Theater is a multi-disciplinary performance company committed to the development of new works and adaptations that speak to the human condition through fantasy and mythic storytelling. Welcome to the home the most thrilling and fantastical theater you will find in Seattle! Throughout our seasons, Open Circle's resident company unites with local directors, musicians, visual artists and performers, to bring fresh insight and invention to our creations of highly physical, ensemble-style theater. Join us as we reinvent the theatrical experience. Click on a show below to see details about that show. Red NosesFREE THEATER IN THE PARK!!It's the 1300's: a quarter of Europe is dead from the plague, pestilence is everywhere, and humanity is convinced this is Armageddon. So why not go out laughing! A priest receives a command from god to make people laugh, and boy does he ever! The plague was never so funny! Scott Bradley, former OCT artistic director, comes back to direct the ensemble in this bawdy circus of clowning misfits. Do not miss this clever, hysterical and irreverent award winning play by Peter Barnes; it may literally have people die laughing. Sponsored by The Broadway Grill FREE IN THE PARK at the Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave. E. (19th Ave. E. & E. Thomas St.) Northwest Field DATES & SHOWTIMES: Aug. 6 - 29, Fri. @ 7pm, Sat. & Sun. @ 2pm BY BUS: On the #8, #12 and #43 bus routes Handicap accessible and off-street parking. Are We Scared? An Experiment in Child's PlayProduced in conjunction with Sweet Pea Cottage Preschool of the Arts, a team of adapters has worked with a group of preschool students to create a production entirely from the children’s imaginations and interactions. The cast and director become the final adapters in creating this fantastic, baffling world. It's weird to be a kid!SHOWTIMES: Thu. - Sat. @ 8pm There are two pay-what-you-will shows Sunday 6/13 & 6/20 @ 2pm PRICE: $12 Children 12 & under are $6 EdmondEDMOND EXTENDS!!! NOW RUNNING THRU MAY 8 (see reviews at bottom). Open Circle Theater is proud to present David Mamet's seldom-produced and controversial dystopian play EDMOND. In EDMOND, described as "a modern-day morality play," Mamet's lacerating, heart-stopping dialogue immediately submerges us into the dark world of pre-reform New York, circa 1984. Enter Edmond Burke - average banker, normal husband, forthright citizen - who upon discovering that "he is not where he belongs" undertakes a journey that will take us, kicking and screaming, through self-destruction and annihilation, to eventual redemption. Described by critics as "distrubingly topical," "brilliantly thrilling" and "a riviting theatrical experience that illuminates the heart of darkness," EDMOND is a searing quest for self-discovery and ratification, concealed in a furious, unflinching whirlwind of a play.SPECIAL NOTE: After the perfromace Sat., May 1 the band VEGAS IN FLAMES will perform AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE! SHOW DATES & TIMES: April 2 through May 8, Thu. - Sat. at 8pm There are two Sunday matinees - April 11 & 25 at 2pm PRICE: $12; the Sunday April 25 matinee at 2pm is pay-what-you-will Dark RideEXTENDED! NOW RUNNING THROUGH MARCH 13THA mysterious figure gives a scholar an ancient manuscript; a thief steals an enormous cursed jewel; a dream-like waitress gives her customers plenty to think about, but no food; a young nurse makes the ultimate sacrifice for an egg. From this inital series of absurdist vignettes emerges a fantasmagoric and convoluted journey - Len Jenkin's masterpiece Dark Ride. Taking his title from the term used in the amusement park industry for a fun-house type ride which takes you through scenes (as opposed to a 'coaster') Len Jenkin expertly weaves the disparate threads of his story together into a whole that is able to transcend the physical world and explore the true seat of reality - the inner recesses of the mind. As the play progresses, one by one the seemingly unrelated stories begin to merge and collide until the culminate in a spectacularly baffling oculist convention in Mexico City. By the end the audience may be questioning their own version of sanity and the very bounds of reality itself. But then again, isn't that what a good fun-house ride is suppose to do? The Eight: Reindeer MonologuesBy popular demand the smash-hit anti-Christmas pageant is back with a vengeance!In this dark comedy a media frenzy erupts when scandalous allegations are leveled at the North Pole's most prominent resident. As each legendary member of Santa's flying team comes forward to demand its share of the lime-light, a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, implicating everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself. Each night before THE EIGHT we will open with Kringle’s Kabaret, a terribly wrong and inappropriate showcase of live music and banter. 10 Performances Only!! WHAT: Open Circle Presents Jeff Goode's The Eight: Reindeer Monologues WHERE: Open Circle Theater, 429 Boren Avenue North at Republican street. WHEN: December 5th through December 20th, Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm/Sunday @ 7pm Pre-Show Kabaret begins @ 7:30pm/Sunday @ 6:30pm. TIX: $14 General, $12 Students/Seniors INFO/RESERVATIONS: Call (206) 382-4250 to reserve your tickets, or click the tickets link to your left. Road Movie to Berlin - The Music of They Might Be Giants:
In the same vein as our highly successful Valentines Day tribute to Magnetic Fields, Open Circle theater presents a night of the music of They Might Be Giants, performed live! Each evening some of Seattle's best-loved fringe actors will perform hits from this cult group accompanied by a live band made up of some of Seattle's most talented local musicians. It will be a wild evening filled with music, theater and all types of surprises. Each evening after the show a local area band will perform (see list below). Do not miss this one-of-a-kind event! In short, this evening is going to kick your ass. |
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