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SPF#4 Presents: Best in Shorts 3/3
Solo Performance Festival - Best in Shorts!
A fun evening of some of the best short performances in Seattle!
About the Shows:
A One Man Miss Saigon by Manuel R. Cawaling
In these difficult economic times, why produce a major Broadway musical with a cast of 30 or more when it can be performed with just one person? And with our shrinking attention spans, why produce a three hour musical when a story can be told in under 10 minutes? Manuel Cawaling returns to the Theatre Off Jackson stage with his hilarious parody of Miss Saigon. Through movement, karaoke, lip-synch, a helicopter and the use of a very large fan, Cawaling tells the tragic story of war torn lovers like its never been told before.
Rapid Slippage Along a Fault by Keira McDonald
In the first minute of the first year of the 21st century a girl falls...in love. First comes the earthquake and then the declaration of war.
The Riverboat Runs Aground: Based on a True Story by Wesley K. Andrews.
Wesley K. Andrews performs an excerpt from his original work, The Riverboat Runs Aground: Based on a True Story. Tonight's performance will be Chapter III: The Fairbanks High School Constitutional Crisis, a story of careless endangerment and rebellion in the context of a post-Columbine school system.
Daddy is Plastic by Elspeth Walker
A short performance piece about a girl who goes to London to meet a dad she hasn't seen in eleven years and finds that her knight-on-white-horse vision is actually self-centered, fat, self-destructive and ugly. Daddy is Plastic is a valley-girl's wrestling match with the duplicities of images we create for a single person; a deconstruction of our nasty human tendency to fabricate idyllic, porcelain people out of their primal, repulsive counterparts.
Above Normal Range by Rebecca M. Davis
A woman with an unusual vocal attribute interviews for a specialized dating service.
Clown Car by Emmett Montgomery
Sick by Elizabeth Kenny
Jam by Peggy Platt
About the Performers:
Manuel R. Cawaling has worked professionally in the Puget Sound as an artist and administrator since 1989. Over the last 20 years, Cawaling has explored a variety of professional interestsarts administration, stage directing, performing, arts education, exhibit development and community organizing. Cawaling is the Executive Director for Youth Theatre Northwest and the President for the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation. Cawaling is a well-known local director and his work has been seen in various venues across the city. Cawaling recently directed The Fantasticks for Civic Light Opera, Theory of Everything for SIS Productions and Orbis, a unique performing arts installation celebrating the Winter Solstice at Seattle Center.
Keira McDonald (Creator/Performer) is a self-producing theatre artist who lives in Seattle. Her first one woman show Showerhead was seen at Mae West Fest, Odd Duck Studio, Re-Bar, Frontera Fest (Best of fest, Austin, TX) UNO SOLO festival (Victoria, BC) and Manhattan Theatre Sources EstroGenius Festival (New York) Her second one woman show The Bridesmaid premiered at The Comedy Tree (London) and was featured at Theatre Off Jackson, CHAC and Bryant Lake Bowl (Minneapolis) It toured The Canadian Fringe Festival Circuit to sold out audiences in 2007. Her third one woman show BLAsTronaughy! premiered at The Regina International Theatre Festival and toured to Winnipeg and Saskatoon, San Francisco and Austin, TX. Her fourth solo show XXXplicit was performed at SPF #3 and is heading to Orlando in May 2010. She is the Founder and Producer/Curator of Seattle's Solo Performance Festival (SPF) at Theatre Off Jackson.
Wesley K. Andrews is a performer and playwright in Seattle, Washington. A 2004 graduate from the University of Puget Sound, Wesley has performed at On the Boards, Annex Theatre, Macha Monkey Theatre, Balagan Theatre, the Lee Center for the Arts, and other venues. Non-theatrical publications include ArtsReach Magazine and Redefine Magazine. He is employed at Kirkland Performance Center as Development and Communications Manager and Admins the Facebook group Seattle Comp Tickets in his spare time.
Elspeth Walker is a senior Theater & English major (French minor) at Seattle University. She was last seen as Cleanthis in SU's winter 2010 production of Marivaux's The Island of Slaves. Elspeth is planning to perform the full version of her piece Daddy is Plastic for her departmental honors project in SU Theater this spring. She was recently awarded a scholarship for Artistic Achievement in Theater from the department. She is also the Literary Intern at ACT this year.
Rebecca M. Davis Her first foray into Solo Performance was with Alice Bs Shades of Alice in the last century (eek!). She followed that up with pieces for back-to-back NW New Works Festivals at On The Boards, in conjunction with Matthew Reynolds. Most recently, Rebecca performed with Lisa Sanphillipo for the January edition of 12 Minutes Max. She has appeared in countless fabulous productions of Ian Bells Brown Derby Series at ReBar, and has hosted the The Stay Up Late Show (Seattle's only LIVE talkshow/variety show) for the last seven years. Recent favorite roles written by other people include Mrs. Muller in Doubt for Spokane Interplayers, the Nurse in Balagan Theatre's Romeo and Juliet, and Mama in Book-It Theatres Bud, Not Buddy.
Emmett Montgomery tells jokes and makes neat things. One of the founding members of the People's Republic of Komedy and currently a writer/performer for the live late night variety show, Get Loweded, Emmett has been featured in festivals nationwide including Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and SPF#3. http://www.emmettmontgomery.com/
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LocationTheatre Off Jackson
409 7th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98104
United States
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