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Year end kudos for Our American Theater Company
Misha Berson "The best, worst in 2008 of Seattle theater scene"
“Impressive new portable troupes immerged . . . and came into their own (Our American Theater).”
And the kudos:
“Best ‘Off Broadway,’” THREE HOTELS
“Bravo Acting (Plays)” Todd Licea, THREE HOTELS
Kudos also went to Bliss Kolb, for “Superlative [set] Design,” and the radiant Annie Lareau for her performance, in MY ANTONIA at Book-It (which happened to be directed by OAT Co. Artistic Director, Susanna Burney).
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“Americans Abroad”
Our fourth season, “Americans Abroad”, continues in February! We will continue to look at the ways Americans are impacted by and impact the world outside our borders. Within the broad spectrum of American voices we will look at political and social commentary, the poetic and the macabre, madcap humor, and a surreal fever dream of blindness and redemption.
Up Next:
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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Carys Kresney
Monday (Theatre Off Jackson), and Tuesday (TBD), February 16 and 17, at 7:00p.m.
Post-play discussion led by local playwright, Scot Augustson
.When a troubled young woman is the sole witness to her cousin's shocking death, she’s brought to her aunt’s “planned jungle” in a New Orleans courtyard to confront a family that is intensely interested in having her lurid tale silenced. In his richest, boldest poetical flourishes, Williams creates, in the words of Walter Kerr, “a concrete and blistering portrait of loneliness…of the sudden snapping of that spider's web that is one man's life, of ultimate panic and futile flight.”
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DON’T DRINK THE WATER
by Woody Allen,
directed by Susanna Burney
Monday (Theater Off Jackson) and Tuesday (ArtsWest) , April 20 and 21, 7:00 pm
Post-play discussion led local theatre writer and playwright John Longenbaugh and playwright Paul Mullin
Before Woody Allen started making movies, he wrote this slapstick farce that takes place in an embassy behind the Iron Curtain. Topical humor rings remarkably true for today, and the circus of miss matched and bumbling characters make for a bracing and laugh filled evening.
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The Production
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EYES FOR CONSUELA
by Sam Shepard
directed by Susanna Burney
Theatre Off Jackson June 4 - 27 2009
When an American tries to flee his life’s mistakes by holing up in a run down Mexican hotel, he finds himself caught in a mysterious triangle with a man with a ready knife, bent on retrieving a “bouquet of eyes” for his ghostly lover. "The writing has the kind of apparently effortless boldness that reminds you that you are in the presence of one of the greatest living playwrights." —NY Daily News "
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