Unnatural History

Our last show this season is The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh. This play is a gleefully ghoulish black comedy about the fact that even monsters love their moggies. It’s violent, difficult, and if you like your humor dark it’s hilarious, but if several gallons of stage blood and salty Irish swearing aren’t your cup of tea you might want to sit this one out.

In 2009 Nick and I flew down to the Bay Area to see Berkeley Rep’s production. We got a back stage tour which simultaneously…

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I will be showing my animal portraits at Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids in San Francisco at the end of this month. Along with a full set of the original small sized portraits I am making some new paired portraits based on stories for children. Here’s the first pair I’ve finished based on Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussy-cat.

Next I’m working on a Fox and a Crow from the Aesop’s Fable of that name. Each pair will be framed with the text or…

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The Lady With All the Answers is in the first day of tech today. This play is a one woman show starring the wonderful Julie Briskman as Ann Landers. Lady With All the Answers is the first mainstage play that we’ve done in the Bullitt Cabaret since Fully Committed in 2002. The Bullitt is an intimate space, even more so than our arena theatre, which seems ideal to me for a one woman show.

Sadly for me, I did not really work on this play in any substantial way. While…

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Yankee Tavern closes this weekend, next week this bar and all of its ghosts will disappear not under a wrecking ball, but at the hands of the carpenters. Then we’ll look back in time to the start of the season while we pull all of the mechanics from Trip to Bountiful out of the trap room where they have quietly waited this whole time.

The Allen theatre is being returned to a plain black stage at zero level so that Seattle Dance Project can come in and perform Project Orpheus.…

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In case you were wondering why I haven’t posted anything else relating to our political thriller about the 9/11 conspiracy, Yankee Tavern, even though this weekend is the closing weekend, I’m afraid I’ve been just a little bit busy getting ready for a wedding that happened this past weekend.

On August 21st 2010 I had the great joy of marrying my beloved, Nicholas Geoffrey Farwell, who I met three years ago when I started working at ACT Theatre. As you might imagine the wedding of two theatre people is quite…

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