written & directed by Brendan Healy
presented by Pony World Theatre in association with Annex Theatre
Aug. 6-29, 2009 | Thu-Sat 8pm
Written by Pony World co-founder Brendan Healy, Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen was a stylized, modern maritime odyssey, which told the story of a corporate coffee shop barista, marked at birth with green hair. On the mythic Day of Dead Fishermen–the day every 25 years when all the drowned fishermen walk again on a legendary island–Emerald Fasma set out to meet her father who died at sea the day she was born. With a blend of whimsy and poetry, Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen combined old traditions of mythology with a sardonic view of modern life in the Northwest.
What the reviewers said…
The Stranger:
“Imaginatively ambitious”
“Healy’s plays build stylized worlds that initially resemble ours and then fragment, with odd poetry pouring from their fissures”
The Seattle Weekly:
“The actors bloom like bioluminescent algae”
“The set designer flips the bird at every big-budget theater in town”
The Seattlest:
“Playwright Brendan Healy uses a healthy dose of whimsy and charm to tackle big themes of loss and love”
“Healy definitely has a strong theatrical vision”
“A perfectly lovely example of how much a small theatre can accomplish when they think outside the box”
Seattle Gay News:
“An elegant myth”
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