Event

Battle of the Bards IX

Battle of the Bards is Ghost Light Theatricals annual FUNdraiser. The purpose of Battle of the Bards is to produce unique and exciting scenes based on classical theatre, provide a laboratory for directors and actors to take risks, get in touch with the network of talent in the Seattle theater community and to help raise money for Ghost Light.

In Battle of the Bards, three ensembles perform scenes from three classical play adaptations. The audience then picks which play goes into Ghost Light's 2015-16 Season. Admission includes one vote additional votes are only $1 each. All proceeds support the work of Ghost Light Theatricals.

Our three servings this year are:

From Kings to Controllers
By Stacy D. Flood
Directed by Jenny Crooks

Unreal and real life collide as a video game designer hacks her company's newest release, Lucrece's Revenge, to change the characters and direction of the game. But at what cost?

Too Many Dwarves
By Greg Brisendine
Directed by Zach Sanders

One recent morning in a cottage in the forest, 7 dwarf siblings are coming to terms with their recent exile when an anonymous threat to Snow White (a political refugee living with the dwarves) brings chaos. The huntsman arrives to help solve the mystery, and a mysterious old woman keeps showing up with apples. Soon they all learn that the threat to Snow White is the least of their problems.

Maria Morevna
By Jenny Dice
Directed by Steven Sterne

When Ivan, a young Russian with more heart than brains, inherits a vast Tsardom, he is plunged into a dangerous romantic adventure. In pursuit of Koschei the deathless wizard and pursued by the cunning witch Baba Yaga, he finds that sex, violence, magic, and the constant threat of cannibalism are his traveling companions. Will he succeed in saving his beautiful warrior princess from her hideous fate?!