PRODUCTIONS AND PERFORMANCES
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Summer Shakespeare: 12th Night
If music be the food of love, play on! Viola loves Orsino, who thinks he loves Olivia. Olivia thinks she cannot love at all, then thinks she loves Cesario who is really Viola, dressed as a man. Malvolio thinks he ought to be a gentleman, while the foolish Sir Andrew is one, but is no match for the Lady Olivia. Add in a mournful clown, a wily and witty maid, a swashbuckling brother, and you have a recipe for music, madness, mayhem, and merriment! Our production will explicitly take on gender fluidity and queerness in a contemporary setting, while staying true to the power and beauty of Shakespeare’s text.
Rehearsals: July 5 – July 29, Mondays through Fridays from 1:00-4:00 PM
Performances: July 30 & 31 at 2:00 PM
Summer Shakespeare: 12th Night
If music be the food of love, play on! Viola loves Orsino, who thinks he loves Olivia. Olivia thinks she cannot love at all, then thinks she loves Cesario who is really Viola, dressed as a man. Malvolio thinks he ought to be a gentleman, while the foolish Sir Andrew is one, but is no match for the Lady Olivia. Add in a mournful clown, a wily and witty maid, a swashbuckling brother, and you have a recipe for music, madness, mayhem, and merriment! Our production will explicitly take on gender fluidity and queerness in a contemporary setting, while staying true to the power and beauty of Shakespeare’s text.
Rehearsals: July 5 – July 29, Mondays through Fridays from 1:00-4:00 PM
Performances: July 30 & 31 at 2:00 PM
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The Sasquatch Society
Written by: Hersh Powers
Directed by: Kyle Gerstel and Anna Klein
When: Northwest Folklife Festival, Saturday, May 28 at 12:30 PM
Where: Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center (201 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109)
Tickets are FREE!
Hersh Powers(he/him) is a 10th grader at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. Favorite theatre credits include: Prentiss in Peter and the Starcatcher and Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird at Edmonds Driftwood Players, Harrison in The Flight Before Xmas at Macha Theatre Works, Dancer in Seattle Opera’s Aida, Ivar/Actor in Washington Ensemble Theatre’s Cherdonna’s Doll’s House, and Charles Wallace in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s A Wrinkle in Time. More recently, he has ventured into film, with favorites including: Wes Hurley’s award-winning SXSW Premiere: Potato Dreams of America and Kade (A Brother’s K Film). Hersh developed an interest in writing at five years old, developing lengthy adaptations of Broadway classics in his living room. And during the pandemic, Hersh began writing short scripts – which is how The Sasquatch Society began! He is very grateful to Shana Bestock, Noah Chandler, Penguin Productions, and so many others for helping to bring this play to life!
Written by: Hersh Powers
Directed by: Kyle Gerstel and Anna Klein
The Sasquatch Society
When: Northwest Folklife Festival, Saturday, May 28 at 12:30 PM
Where: Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center (201 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109)
Tickets are FREE!
Hersh Powers(he/him) is a 10th grader at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. Favorite theatre credits include: Prentiss in Peter and the Starcatcher and Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird at Edmonds Driftwood Players, Harrison in The Flight Before Xmas at Macha Theatre Works, Dancer in Seattle Opera’s Aida, Ivar/Actor in Washington Ensemble Theatre’s Cherdonna’s Doll’s House, and Charles Wallace in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s A Wrinkle in Time. More recently, he has ventured into film, with favorites including: Wes Hurley’s award-winning SXSW Premiere: Potato Dreams of America and Kade (A Brother’s K Film). Hersh developed an interest in writing at five years old, developing lengthy adaptations of Broadway classics in his living room. And during the pandemic, Hersh began writing short scripts – which is how The Sasquatch Society began! He is very grateful to Shana Bestock, Noah Chandler, Penguin Productions, and so many others for helping to bring this play to life!