Seattle and Bellingham, Wash. — Seattle Repertory Theatre's New Play Program presents workshops of three new plays in June—one at Seattle Rep and two at Western Washington University.
Pulitzer-nominated playwright and director Adam Rapp will be at Seattle Rep to develop and direct his new work, Welcome Home, Dean Charbonneau,about a Wisconsin family's attempt to celebrate the return of their son from Iraq (to both comic and heart wrenching effect). Public staged readings will be held June 4-6, 2010, in Seattle Rep's black box space, the PONCHO.
Later in June, Seattle Rep's artistic team will bring two playwrights and ten equity actors to Western Washington University for an intensive six-day residency. Seattle Rep's Producing Artistic Director Jerry Manning will direct Bryan Willis' Bootleg, a love story about bootleggers during Prohibition, set in 1927 Olympia. Associate Artistic Director Braden Abraham will work with Stephanie Timm on her new piece, Asleep in the Mouth of a Crocodile, which follows the comedic, epic journey of Joe, a middle-aged narcoleptic bartender with no direction in life.
A group of select Western Washington University students will observe the process, shadow members of the artistic team, and participate in workshops with the directors and playwrights.
"This is the first time Seattle Rep has done a residency quite like this," said Manning. "We're excited to bring these two amazing plays to Bellingham, to help develop such exciting new work from local playwrights, and to do it with the next generation of theatre makers in the room with us."
Similarly, Seattle Rep's New Play Program workshopped Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play Lidless with the University of Washington's School of Drama in February.
A limited number of tickets for Welcome Home, Dean Charbonneau are currently on sale for $15 through the Seattle Rep Box Office at (206) 443-2222. Tickets for the Western Washington University residencies will be available through the WWU Box Office at (360) 650-6146 orboxoffice@wwu.edu. Admission is free.
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