Affair Begins
She waits outside the door. Or inside the door. Not in the door. I am in the bathroom. She is in the room. I just used the bathroom. She presumably did not just use the room. Besides her, there is also a bed in the room and maybe a few odds and ends and four corners which she is not using because she used the bathroom just before me when I was in the room listening to her use the bathroom instead of seeing the room. Then we switched. Here I am.
Can One Really Improvise a Mind Meld? Where No Man Has Gone Before Answers Your Questions
Where No Man Has Gone Before is an improvised parody of the original Star Trek TV series. Each night the cast will use suggestions from the audience to create the world and plot of the show. If you saw the last run of this show back in the fall at the Odd Duck Theater on Capitol Hill, you’re in for some changes this time around.
SIFF Review: Rebellion (L’Ordre et la Morale); dir. Mathieu Kassovitz (France, 2011)
There are a couple of more opportunities to catch Rebellion during this year’s SIFF; joining the Star family, Everett Rummage weighs in on this imperfect hybrid of Hollywood-style action movie and political docudrama from France.
SIFF Review: Bonsái dir. Cristián Jiménez (Chile, 2011)
Cristián Jiménez’s Bonsái is a quiet and literate exploration of young love, the nature of nostalgia, and the way that lies and fictions are wrapped up in emotion. Jose Amador shares his impressions of the movie, that is also a selection at this year’s SIFF.
The Show Must Go On #6: The Albatross
After working through issues of structure, I’ve got my first headstand story pared down to several bullet events, made into bullet points, and then the takeaway, or the insight and conclusion. I’ve got my first line, and I like it: ‘Last year, I discovered how NOT to take yoga classes: like a straight-A student.”
boom! theater’s New Works Festival: Over: Exposed & boatcanoetubfloaty
The boom! theater company is one of Seattle’s more adventuresome young theater companies who recently concluded a six month New Works Festival, selections of which the company will take on tour later in the year. John Allis discusses two of the pieces: Gesamtkunstwerk!’s Over: Exposed and boom!’s own boatcanoetubfloaty
Arouet’s The House of Bernarda Alba: Spanish Theater 101
Despite having a sizable Latino population in Seattle, it isn’t often you see theater that originated from Spanish-speaking countries or playwrights. Arouet Productions has mounted one of Federico Garcia Lorca’s most well known plays, and José Amador checked it out; he brings you the details inside.
Cafe Nordo’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Dinner & Atmospherics
Cafe Nordo’s Cabinet of Curiosities has overtaken Capitol Hill’s/Central District’s Washington Hall, serving an enjoyable mix of food and moody atmosphere. José Amador took in the proceedings and found an evening that pleases on many levels.
Inventions of Memory: Trimpin and the Gurs Zyklus Arrive On the Boards
Some people have called it an opera, some have called it a sound sculpture, some have called it musical theater, some have called it theatrical music. Whatever one chooses to label it, The Gurs Zyklus is most certainly a work by Trimpin and one that continues his exploration of sound and how sound itself tells a story.
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