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Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone's never felt like this before. In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
From the director: "Love and Information is a vibrant, open-canvas project that welcomes as much creative choice, if not more, than it prescribes in the text. The 100+ characters in the play, experienced through 57 scenarios, are presented without specified gender, age, ethnicity, or names. These are decided upon by the shared values of the creative ensemble of each new production. The scale of production, number of roles, and even structure of the script are left up to the team.
The text outlines numerous theatrical scenarios surrounding how we intersect in the digital world, exploring intimacy and communication in a wide array of snapshot, sophisticated circumstances. The play seems to ask "How do we create meaning in an age of redacted and diverse interpersonal means of interaction?" At this frontier of mass-, mis-, mal-information, the absence of empathy from digital communication invites a challenge for a world that is increasingly reliant on the brief, the quick, and the convenient in order to function.
This generation of students is fluent in this practice and also understands its merits, making them the perfect candidates to address this question." -- Michael Place, Director
Michael Place has performed at Intiman, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, ACT, Seattle Childrens Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Book-It and in 10 productions as a founding co-artistic director of Washington Ensemble Theatre (WET). He has directed productions at WET, HERE Arts Center, Cornish and the Yale Cabaret, where he was a co-artistic director. Michael is the founding curator of One Coast Collaboration, a national bridge-building new play festival.
AGE RESTRICTION: Recommended age 12+
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LocationCornish Playhouse at Seattle Center (View)
201 Mercer Street
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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