Event

See Me Naked

Seattle theater veteran Maria Glanz returns to Open Space for Arts & Community with her wildly popular - and newly expanded - one-woman show See Me Naked, with one performance only on August 24, 2013 at 8pm. See Me Naked is written and performed by Maria Glanz and directed by Elizabeth Klob.

SPECIAL NAKED PIZZA TREAT! Join friends and Naked Fans for the most delicious pizza in the world, courtesy of La Biondo Wood-Fired Pizza. Doors open for pizza at 6pm. Kickstarter Pizza Dough rewards will be sent to donors who qualify, and everyone else is welcome to purchase pizza and join the party!

See Me Naked won audience acclaim and numerous awards in previous productions. After a fantastic Seattle run in early 2012, and a successful Kickstarter campaign that spring, Maria dove back into the show - rewriting and investigating and expanding the text. New drummer Julian Zurdo joined the company, and in March See Me Naked re-debuted at the beautiful Capitol Theatre in Yakima.

See Me Naked is a brilliant interactive comedy that explores personal boundaries and feelings relating to being naked, both literally and symbolically. Following a striptease fail, an embarrassed amateur opens up to her audience about why exposing herself publicly is so difficult and so important for her to do. See Me Naked starts as a comic monologue, but soon becomes a dialogue when she begins to question members of the audience about their own feelings regarding being naked. The real heart of the show is how easily audiences contribute their own hilarious and often embarrassing experiences, making every performance unique.

Director Klob says, "This is a rare show it combines all of the elements I love in theater; See Me Naked tells a story, reveals something personal about the performer and engages the audience in an authentic way. It is also titillating without being bawdy, and it makes me laugh out loud. Maria and I developed and I directed this show over 10 years ago, and it never ceases to put a smile on my face or excite me to come back and rework it again."

See Me Naked was Artistic Pick of the 2001 Seattle Fringe Festival, and the Best of Fest at Seattle Rep's PONCHO Theatre and ReAct the Fringe at ArtsWest. Featured at the 2002 UNO Festival of Solo Performance in Victoria, BC, See Me Naked played the Saskatoon Fringe Festival, was a BEST of FEST Holdover at the 2001 Edmonton Fringe, named one of the Top Ten Plays at the Montreal Fringe Festival, played to sold-out houses at the Blue Barn Theatre in Omaha and was BEST of FEST Holdover at the 2002 Winnipeg Fringe. In 2004, it was featured in the Flying Solo Festival at Cape May Stage, NJ, and was remounted in 2010 at the Open Space on Vashon Island.

"Maria Glanz crafts a strange, beautiful, thoughtful show. 5 Stars." The Edmonton Journal

"See Me Naked" is more than a comic one-woman show and darling of the fringe theater circuit. It is a delightfully schizophrenic stream-of-consciousness ramble through the evolution of Glanz's body image from childhood to the present day, coupled with an interactive dialogue with the audience about their private experiences with their bare skin." - Crosscut.com

"A comic, compelling hour exploring society's attitudes on nakedness, and why we feel the way we do about being in the buff." The Star Phoenix

"It's easy to see why Fringe veteran Maria Glanz is so popular she's smart." The Stranger