OAT Co. continues it’s dynamic staged reading series with Lillian Hellman’s masterful prequel to The Little Foxes, ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. Artistic Director, Susanna Burney directs a cast of great Seattle actors.

The staged reading is two nights only at two different venues. Theatre Off Jackson on Monday, March 15, and Stage 1 Theatre at North Seattle Community College on Tuesday, March 16. Both performances begin at 7:00, and will be followed by a discussion with the cast and director, led by Scot Augustson on Monday and Dawson Nichols on Tuesday.

So no one will hesitate to attend for lack of funds, ALL PERFORMANCES ARE PAY WHAT YOU WILL.

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST was written seven years after Hellman’s The Little Foxes, which starred Tallulah Bankhead (and later Bette Davis in the iconic William Wyler movie) in the role of Regina Hubbard Giddens. Whereas, The Little Foxes shows the Hubbard family at the turn of the century, and the middle aged siblings fighting to bilk their various spouses, ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST takes place 20 years before, when the cunning Regina Hubbard is a mere young lady, the apple of her predatory father’s eye, who clearly hasn’t fallen far from the tree. It’s 1880, in the wake of Reconstruction, and the Hubbards, being a mercantile family eager to build their empire, pick among the scrapheap of the crumbling Southern aristocracy. Hellman’s writing is taught, biting and brilliant as she crafts characters who are quietly, openly, or cunningly dangerous, as well as the gentle, lost souls who lie helplessly in their wake.

An outstanding cast of Seattle actors has been assembled: Betsy Schwartz as Regina Hubbard, Eric Ray Anderson as the patriarch, Marcus. Jon Lutyens and John Bogar are brothers Oscar and Ben, with Amy Fleetwood as the mother Lavinia. George Mount, Alecha Newbern, Sarah Harlett, David S. Klein and Rachel Glass round out the cast.

For its Fifth Season, OAT Co. explores the theme: “Past is Prologue,” in an ongoing effort to define and explore the American identity through the lens of great American theater. What we’ve done in the past, makes us who we are today. How will it affect us? Will it swamp us? Or will we make a change for the better?