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
Penguins 4: Suffer The Children
Jan 28-Feb 18, 2011 | Fri-Sat at 11 pm
$10 gen / $5 TPS/senior/student
Industry Night (PWYC) Mon Feb 14, 8 pm
Pay What You Can Feb 11/12
The scandals that rocked the Catholic Church finally come to roost at St. Benedict’s: The diocese has its very own pedophile. Someone’s got to take the fall. As reporters dig into the past, the ever-greedy Father Jones and tyrannical Sister Bernadette fight to control the present—including missing relics, rebellious underlings, incriminating videotape, and a lonely Mormon missionary. Sister Candy and elderly Connie Sullivan face unexpected pregnancies; Sisters Jenny Memphis and Mimi Coco wrestle with inappropriate desires; and young Adam learns some unwelcome news about his parentage. Mix in a couple of dance numbers and some surprising guest stars and you have the latest episode of Annex’s late-night serial comedy, Penguins!
Written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.
Featuring Daniel Christensen, Chris Dietz, Katie Driscoll, Karen Heaven, Sophie Lowenstein, Jenny Schmidt, Jillian Vashro, Lisa Viertel, and Clayton Weller
“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
“The cast is nearly faultless. Bret Fetzer’s direction is excellent. … I had seen two of the prior installments in the series, so it wasn’t a shock to see a nun acting sinfully, but I still laughed and I wasn’t alone.” – Seattlest
Check out a very different late night mass this summer and enjoy communion libations in our fully stocked bar. You can always confess about it later!
Penguins 3: The Bishop’s Bastard
August 7-August 27, 2010 | Fri-Sat at 11 pm
$15 gen
The bloody feud between nuns and priests gets set aside in the face of a greater threat: Other churches! Everyone thinks the Bishop’s illegitimate child can be used to their advantage, so the bastard’s baptism becomes a war zone filled with forbidden love, strange addictions, May/December romance, schizophrenia, radical atheists and musical numbers. Come see the bullets fly in Penguins, Episode III: The Bishop’s Bastard!
Written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.
Featuring Daniel Christensen, Chris Dietz, Katie Driscoll, Teri Lazzara, Sophie Lowenstein, Jenny Schmidt, Jillian Vashro, Lisa Viertel, and Clayton Weller.
“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
Check out a very different late night mass this summer and enjoy communion libations in our fully stocked bar. You can always confess about it later!
Clubfoot
August 10-25, 2010 | Tue-Wed at 8 pm
$10 gen
Clubfoot is the harrowing, surreal and wildly funny experiences of an Emergency Medical Technician. Jump in the ambulance and be transported into a tripwire world of manic teenage wrestling in the middle of I-5, stroked out delusionals, cutters, car crash victims, flesh-eating bacteria and more! It’s an outrageously skewed view of humanity at its worst and at its best: fragile, resilient and accident-prone!
Written by Stephen McCandless and Bret Fetzer and directed by Bret Fetzer.
Featuring Chris Dietz, Pamala Mijatov, and Ray Tagavilla.
“An incisive view into the surreal world of first-responders…You should consider this required viewing.” – Seattle Times
Don’t miss this adrenalin-soaked night of theater!
Penguins 2: Roll Away the Rock
written by Scot Augustson, directed by Bret Fetzer
LATE NIGHT: Jan 29 – Feb 12, 2010, Fri-Sat at 11 pm
(no show Friday, Feb 6)
$10 gen / $5 stu
A gang war twixt nuns and priests!
Episode 2 of Annex’s smash-hit Penguins, about a gang war between nuns and priests in the Catholic church that rocks the dioceses!
CAST
| Father Luke/The Organist/Snake Eyes | Daniel Christensen |
| Father Jones | Chris Dietz |
| Sister Daphne George/Mother Gershwin/Connie Sullivan | Teri Lazzara |
| Sister Jenny Memphis/June/Sister Peaches | Sophie Lowenstein |
| Adam, the Organist’s son | David Roby |
| Sister Mimi Coco/Marilyn/Sister Iddy Biddy | Jenny Schmidt |
| Sister Candy/Young Susan/Widow Kilorin | Jillian Vashro |
| Sister Bernadette/Gertrungkt | Lisa Viertel |
| Brother Placido/Spencer/Monsignor Kittan | Clayton Weller |
CREW
| Stage Manager | Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe |
| Technical Director & Photographer | Ian Johnston |
| Production Manager | Ellie McKay |
| Postcard Design | Emily Harvey |
| Design Team | Susannah Anderson Meaghan Darling John DeShazo Julia Evanovich Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe Ed Hawkins Ian Johnston |
SPECIAL THANKS
Lynn Jepson, Jen Moon, Deb Skorstad and the UW Costume Shop, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Theater Schmeater.
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