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Annex Theatre: Season 22
October 17, 2008 – July 18, 2009 |
Our season for 2008-2009 includes 4 mainstage shows, each paired with a Late-Night presentation. In addition, we'll host an out-of-town comedy troupe in December 2008, and we'll present a collaborative site-specific performance in March 2009. This season continues Annex's 21-year mission of producing new work with 4 World Premieres and 2 Northwest Premieres.
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Mainstage Show Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. |
Late-Night Show Fridays & Saturdays at 11 p.m. |
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October 17 - November 15
This first play by acclaimed monologuist Mike Daisey
(21 Dog Years, Monopoly!, How Theater Failed America) weaves a
vision of the brutal history of the Soviet space program with an unbelievable premise:
a dead cosmonaut is called back down to Earth on a radio wave when Americans in a
remote Arctic base hear the beating of his dying heart. A dark and hilarious fairy
tale set against the Cold War, it asks what we risk in the struggle between will
and humanity, and what it means to love beyond death itself.
The Moon Is a Dead World (World Premiere) written by Mike Daisey, directed by Chris Comte |
October 24 - November 14
In a series of skillful monologues that blend comedy and pathos, two
actors portray a spectrum of frustration and yearning. The vivid
characters range from a liberal civics teacher trying to lift his students
out of apathy to a woman struggling to deliver an effective video-dating
pitch to a two strangers in an elevator conducting an unexpressed and
unconsummated romance.
Eating Round the Bruise (Northwest Premiere) written by Barret O'Brien, directed by Ciara Griffin |
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December 5 - 20, Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm
This dazzling comic duo, who were named Best of the Fest in the last
Seattle Fringe Theater Festival, return to Seattle with their fluid
free-associative theatrics. Comparable to the Northwests' own The Cody
Rivers Show, The Pajama Men have been touring the U.S., Canada, and
festivals worldwide, gathering acclaim and awards by the fistful. For
more information, see their
web page.
The Pajama Men |
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January 16 - February 14
Nine-year-old Kirsty Vanderkamp discovers that the nooks and crannies of her
house contain a miniature world: Under her bed lie dust bunny farms, in
the freezer is a scientific research outpost, in the china cabinet a
fashion and gossip magazine called Dish is published...as Kirsty creates
a This American Life-style radio documentary about this world, she finds
herself following the adventures of farmboy Iota Potts as he pursues the
girl he loves, social-climbing Aura Rotter, while in the background the
fire-and-brimstone preacher Bib Clad slowly builds a menacing theocratic
empire.
Blind Spot (World Premiere) written by Bret Fetzer & Juliet Waller Pruzan, directed by Rachel Katz Carey, with songs by Rick Miller |
January 23 - February 13
Six-year-old performance artist Kitty Poole plays the musical saw, dreams of
pop star Sting, and gives the audience cake. Come join Becky Poole (of
the comedy duo Becky & Noelle) as she lures you into her surreal yet
innocent universe.
The Kitty Poole Show written and performed by Becky Poole |
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March 12 - 29, Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm (schedule subject to change)
In an as-yet-to-be-determined downtown skyscraper, Annex Theatre and
Specific Gravity Ensemble will present 30-40 sixty-second plays performed
in elevators as they rise and fall. The audience will dart from elevator
to elevator to experience this unique, intimate, and borderline
claustrophobic vision of office politics, superheroes, fleeting romance,
and modern convenience.
Elevator Plays a collaboration between Annex Theatre and Specific Gravity Ensemble of Louisville, KY |
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April 17 - May 16
In the “ridiculous” tradition of Ludlam's Corn and Exquisite
Torture, Annex presents the hellzapoppin sex farce: Love's
Tangled Web, a lurid melodrama featuring a crippled heiress, a
greedy clergyman, a voodoo-practicing nymphet, a randy gorilla,
and slamming doors galore. Director Ed Hawkins has helmed some
of Annex's most popular shows, including Stage Door and Chris
Jeffries’ The Glory Booty Club, as well as comic romps at
Re-Bar like DeFlowered in the Attic, Brent or Brenda? and
What've We Done To Baby Jane?. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Love's Tangled Web (Northwest Premiere) written by Charles Ludlam, directed by Ed Hawkins |
April 24 - May 15
The Unicycle Collective, that loose federation of solo performers,
presents a late-night version of their popular Monolodge series, featuring
5-6 solo performers spinning out their take on the lurid themes of the
prime-time show, Love's Tangled Web. Expect everything from
embarrassing autobiography to mind-expanding metaphysics to sheer physical
slapstick.
Monolodge Late Night curated by the Unicycle Collective |
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June 19 - July 18
Annex and new theater group Pony World collaborate to bring you the new
work from Brendan Healy (creator of The Secret Recordings of Lenin to His
Lost Love Mary Ann of Topeka, KS) that merges Seattle history with his
own freewheeling imagination as a green-haired barista seeks her fisherman
father, long lost at sea, on the day that the dead fishermen walk the
earth. Featuring sea chanteys, Captain Ahab, and a quartet of mermaids.
Annex Theatre and Pony World present Emerald and the Lovesong of the Dead Fisherman (World Premiere) written and directed by Brendan Healy |
June 26 - July 17
Scot Augustson, the mastermind behind Sgt. Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes and
the daffy ecological armageddon of Plants and Animals, turns his comic
lens on the Catholic church. Imagine the gang warfare and byzantine
internal politics of The Sopranos...only it's priests vs. nuns in a
no-holds barred cage match of the holy spirit.
Penguins, Episode 1 (World Premiere) written by Scot Augustson, directed by Bret Fetzer |
Annex Theatre is dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness and risk. For press information, contact Alex Harris: alex.harris (at) annextheatre.org.
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