Directed by Bret Fetzer
Fri-Sat at 11 pm, Aug 6-26
$10 gen / $5 TPS/senior/student
PWYC Industry Nights: Mondays, August 15 & 22
End times are near in the final episode of Scot Augustsonʼs black-and-white comedy Penguins! The conflict of priests vs. nuns comes to a head, along with exorcisms, conspiracies, lesbian love, historical secrets revealed, and more of the caustic comedy thatʼs brought this late night serial acclaim and dismay! Directed by Bret Fetzer.
| Daniel Christensen | Father Luke |
| Chris Dietz | Father Jones & Hitchhiker |
| Katie Driscoll | Adam |
| Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe | Connie Sullivan |
| Sophie Lowenstein | Sister Jenny Memphis |
| Jenny Schmidt | Sister Mimi Coco |
| Jillian Vashro | Sister Candy |
| Lisa Viertel | Sister Bernadette |
| Clayton Weller | Brother Placido |
CREW
| Director | Bret Fetzer |
| Technical Director/Photography/Graphic Design | Ian Johnston |
| Stage Manager | Caitlin Gilman |
| Lighting Design | Tess Malone |
| Costume Design | Avery Reed & Meaghan Darling |
| Sound Design | Kyle Thompson |
| ABOUT PERFORMANCE TIMES, PUBLIC TICKETS AND PRESS TICKETS
PENGUINS 5: Mea Maxima Culpa, Baby August 6th through August 26th Annex Theatre 1100 Pike Street East / 2nd Floor The Performance Dates include: August 6th, 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 26th at 11pm August 15th and 22nd at 8pm for our Industry Pay-What-You-Will Nights $5 General Admission: Student/Senior/Military/TPS
PRESS TICKETS / PRESS PACKETS If you are an editor or writer of any medium that would like to review this show, please contact our Marketing & Communications Director, Brian Peterson, at brian.peterson@annextheatre.org. You will receive two complimentary press tickets for opening night, a press packet and a link to our online press photo gallery – which includes all press photos taken, our video trailer for the show. |
| Press Photos | Photo 1 Photo 2 |
“Augustson’s late-night serial comedy Penguins is a breath of fresh, filthy air…its balls-out devotion to depravity is executed by a talented, canny cast.”
– The Stranger
“Brawny, brogue-brandishing badass Sister Bernadette (Lisa Viertel) demands some basic rights for nuns, which triggers a priest/nun gang war that makes last year’s pitiless Cannes winner Gomorrah look like an afterschool special…We’re talking Doubt on Ecstasy, smack, and aerosol cheese…The hour-long show felt like half that, and I wished Penguins: Episode 2 would have begun immediately after.”
– Seattle Weekly
“Ultra-lowbrow, extreme Catholic camp…[director] Fetzer keeps his cast moving full-tilt…You wouldn’t think there’d be any thrill (perverse or otherwise) left in priest-and-nun exploitation, but [playwright] Augustson mines the veins of altar-boy molestation and convent lesbianism with such fervor, he might win you over.”
– SunBreak
“I thought it was absolutely fucking great…If all late-night theater were like this, it would devour prime-time theater, which would be fantastic.”
– Monologist Mike Daisey
Buy Tickets
