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 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.
The Believers
written & directed by Jim Bovino
Oct. 23 – Nov. 21, 2009 | Fri-Sat 8pm
The Believers is set in an unidentified city where life has become transformed into a series of fragmented and privatized events where the cameras are always rolling, the lights are always on, and the hero could be you.
The play examines the manufacturing of reality and questions the ability of individuals to distinguish between autonomous and enforced behavior and the possibility for original thought in a mediated world.
The play does not have a traditional plot or narrative, but is structured as a series of vignettes loosely connected by theme.
CAST
| Sarah E Budge |
| Joe Feeney |
| Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe |
| Caleb Joslin |
| Erin Pike |
| Nick Poling |
| Jennifer Pratt |
CREW
| Stage Manager | Meaghan Darling |
| Set Design | Zack Bent |
| Light Design | Melinda Short |
| Costume Design | Julia Evanovich |
| Props Design | Julia Welch |
| Sound Engineering | Kevin Heard |
| Original Music | Take Acre |
| Technical Director | Max Reichlin |
| Production Manager | Ellie McKay |
| Build Team | Jillian Vashro David Roby Ron Darling |
SPECIAL THANKS
Seattle Children’s Theatre, John Deshazo, Michael Hayes, Jillia Pessenda, Theatre Schmeater, Clint Fisher, Gala
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