Open Circle Theater Extends and Expands!

Open Circle Theater is pleased to present EAT MY SHORTS - a ten-minute play 'feast' highlighting spectacular works by playwrights from all over the nation. Twenty-four original plays will be taken on by local directors and performed the first three weekends of August. Each weekend the audience, along with a panel of celebrity judges, will choose two plays as Tastiest Bites to receive an additional performance the final weekend of August as Best of the Fest. In addition to the Tastiest Bites, the audience favorite of all three weekends will be chosen as a Blue Plate Special and will receive an opportunity to perform their piece at Bumbershoot. Additional special prizes for Tastiest Bites and the Blue Plate Special will be announced at a later time. Visit www.OCTheater.com for more information. Tickets are $10 and the show runs on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm August 56 - 28th.

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Open Circle Theater is pleased to announce the extension of the stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's cult Discworld novel WYRD SISTERS through July 24th.

We've added two more dates beyond the original closing weekend of July 17th and will be performingFriday, July 23rd and Saturday July 24th.

Wyrd Sisters takes Macbeth and then turns it up until the knob comes off (with healthy doses of Hamlet and other Shakespeare characters implied as well). It’s all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three powerful witches and a cartload of puns, jokes and lampooning. It's “the Scottish play” from the witches' perspective.

Terry Pratchett is the well-known author of the Discworld novels, currently at 37 books and growing. The books are broad comic fantasies that follow actions in a place called Discworld, a vaguely medieval place, which is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants and which is, in turn, on the back of a giant turtle. Each book is set in a different part of the Disc and generally parodies or is inspired by a different subject ("Wyrd Sisters" is MacBeth, "Maskerade" parodies opera and Phantom, etc.). Currently the second most-read writer in the UK and seventh non-US author most-read in the US, Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series have gained an international cult following.

Again, visit www.OCTheater.com for more information and tickets!