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FEBRUARY 2015 I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE DOG OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE ES045 covers.indd 1 12/10/14 9:50 AM When Only The Best Will Do 3500 Factoria Blvd. S.E., Bellevue, WA • 425.643.2610 • www.dacels.com Dac 120214 earrings fp.indd 1 12/2/14 2:08 PM January-February 2015 Volume 11, No. 4 Paul Heppner Publisher Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Deb Choat, Robin Kessler, Kim Love Design and Production Artists Mike Hathaway Advertising Sales Director Marty Griswold, Seattle Sales Director Joey Chapman, Gwendolyn Fairbanks, Ann Manning, Lenore Waldron Seattle Area Account Executives Staci Hyatt, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Tim Schuyler Hayman San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Jonathan Shipley Ad Services Coordinator www.encoreartsseattle.com Paul Heppner Publisher Marty Griswold Associate Publisher Leah Baltus Editor-in-Chief Dan Paulus EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 10/8/14 1:06 PM Art Director Jonathan Zwickel Senior Editor Gemma Wilson Associate Editor Amanda Manitach Visual Arts Editor Amanda Townsend Events Coordinator , photo by Michael Davis. www.cityartsonline.com The Piano Lesson Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Vice President Erin Johnston Communications Manager Genay Genereux Accounting Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] 800.308.2898 x105 www.encoremediagroup.com Thomas in and G. Valmont Derrick Lee Weeden Welch, T. Williams, Yaegel Stephen Tyrone Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media season sponsor media sponsor Group to serve musical and theatrical events in Western Washington and the San Francisco Bay Area. All rights reserved. ©2015 Encore Media Group. Reproduction 206-443-2222 seattlerep.org without written permission is prohibited. encoreartsseattle.com 3 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2015 The Dog of the South A1 by Charles Portis Adapted by Judd Parkin Directed by Jane Jones A-1 Welcome A-3 The Dog of the South Credits A-8 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE DOG OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE ES045 covers.indd 1 12/10/14 9:50 AM ENCORE ARTS NEWS Visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com Five Friday Questions with Spike Friedman BY BRETT HAMIL Spike Friedman is as versatile a theatre artist as you’re likely to find. He’s a playwright and founding member of the Satori Group. He covers sports and culture for Grantland and writes the hilarious Seahawks game recaps for the Stranger. He’s also an Upright Citizens Brigade-trained sketch and improv player. (Full disclosure: Friedman also starred in a video I made with Encore contributor Travis Vogt that was a finalist in this year’s SketchFest Seattle Comedy Film Challenge.) Friedman’s got a worldly sense of humor and an active curiosity that makes no distinction between high and low culture. He’s always working on something weird and wondrous. I caught up with him for this week’s installment of Five Friday Questions. What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen/heard in the last month? Moving from the peak of cinema to the dregs, The Worst Idea of All Time What’s the best performance you’ve seen lately? podcast is two comedians from New Zealand who watch Grown Ups 2 every A tie between New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s week and then immediately record a podcast about the experience. I just circus catch against the Dallas Cowboys from two Sundays ago and the discovered it a couple weeks ago and have already burned through the first cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki in Birdman. I think my own lack 20 or so episodes. It’s so funny. They’re on week 40 and are targeting a full of physical abilities draw me to admire the truly virtuosic and acrobatic, 52 episode run, which means they’ll have watched Grown Ups 2 52 times, and both Beckham and Lubezki blew me away with their virtuosity and which is insane. Their camaraderie, which seems to run in direct contrast acrobatics. It’s also worth noting that Lubezki, who is by far the best to Grown Ups 2’s apparent misanthropy, makes the whole project deeply cinematographer working right now, also has an Instagram account that’s satisfying and makes me want to watch Grown Ups 2 (despite their weekly playing on another level. sign-off, “DON’T WATCH THE FILM”). WILSON GRETA 4 ENCORE STAGES ENCORE ARTS NEWS THRIVE ACHIEVE BE Unfortunately that garbage movie is not available on any streaming service, nor is it rentable on iTunes. I’d have to pay 10 bucks to watch Grown Ups 2 just so I can more deeply in on a joke. Nice try, Sandler, but that’s not gonna happen (yet anyway... I’ve decided that when I’ve caught up with the guys on the podcast, I’m watching the film). What music gets you pumped up? What do PARENT PREVIEW oct. 23, nov. 8, & May 13 you listen to when you’re sad? OPEN HOUSES Nov. 12 & Dec. 2 I’m in a sketch show called Buddies with drop-in event jan. 10, 2015 For more information visit WWW.BILLINGSMIDDLESCHOOL.ORG Ubiquitous They running at the Pocket Theater this month and one of my co-stars, Jason Miller, is supposed to make me a “night running” mix to get me pumped up before the shows. He hasn’t done this yet, so I’m shaming him (while also shamelessly plugging our show). Sans this as of yet non-existent mix, I’ll go with the song “Just” by Radiohead to get me pumped and every other song by Radiohead for when I’m sad. What’s the ideal setting for writing a play? Depends on the point in the process. Early on I like to be as far from everyone as possible so I can spew out whatever I’ve got in my brain onto the page. Then when I have to do the grittier work of defining a story arc or composing a treatment, I like to work closely with a couple collaborators by day, and then recede to my own space at night for scripting. My best time for pumping out text usually comes after 10 pm, because I’m a crazy person for whom the rules don’t apply (or because I’m lazy and deadlines don’t count until whomever you owe a draft to is awake in the morning). What’s the most indispensable thing you own? I hate that the answer is my MacBook Air, but man, I would not be able to survive without it. It’s light and powerful and small, and I do all my work on it. I’m writing these words on it right now! Say hi, MacBook Air. [ ] Nothing. It’s shy. Shy but great. You’ll have to trust me on this. I’ve got a pretty great dog too whom I would not be comfortable dispensing of. Let’s put my dog Edgar Martinez Friedman in a tie with my MacBook Air for the top spot. For a multi-media experience, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com/SpikeFriedman For more previews, stories, video and a look behind the scenes, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com PROGRAM LIBRARY CALENDAR PREVIEWS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT encoreartsseattle.com 5 ENCORE ARTS PREVIEWS 2014–2015 SEASON A look ahead from EncoreArtsSeattle.Com Little Bee – Book-It Repertory Theatre Apr. 22 – May 17 A father sacrifices his life to keep his son from being deported from Britain in this Book-It COMING THIS WINTER adaption of the #1 New York Times bestseller, a wrenching look at the lives of African asylum seekers. Author Chris Cleave says, “It’s all about exploring the mystery and the wonder of an individual human life. Life is precious, whatever its country of origin.” Tartuffe – Seattle Shakespeare Company Mar. 17–Apr. 12 Seattle Shakespeare mounts Moliere’s most famous work, a story of deception and hypocrisy told in 2000 rhyming alexandrine couplets in which the titular con man tries to swindle patriarch Orgon out of his fortune and reputation. See the show that once carried the threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church but won Moliere a CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF CHRISTIAN SEATTLE SYMPHONY SEATTLE DENIS KOZHUKHIN LUDOVIC MORLOT LUDOVIC powerful ally in King Louis XIV. JANUARY 29 & 31 Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – ACT Theatre MASTERPIECES BY Apr. 17–May 17 RACHMANINOV & IVES ACT Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ludovic Morlot, conductor / Denis Kozhukhin, piano Tennessee Williams play on its fiftieth anniversary. Seattle Symphony Chorale / Seattle Symphony It’s a sweaty Southern tale of sex, lies and deceit set in Mississippi. Big Daddy is dying and Pianist Denis Kozhukhin electrifies on Rachmaninov’s treasured Third Piano Brick, Maggie, Gooper and Mae all vie, lie and Concerto, and Ives’ Fourth Symphony reflects on American music – drawing manipulate to inherit the estate of the Delta’s big together hymn tunes, popular songs and marching bands. cotton king. Denis Kozhukin’s performances generously underwritten by Dana and Ned Laird. Mark Morris Dance Group – FEBRUARY 12 & 14 UW World Series at Meany Mar. 5–7 The Seattle-bred choreographer known for his BERLIOZ’S ROMÉO ET JULIETTE ingenuity, humor and commitment to live music, Ludovic Morlot, conductor / Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, mezzo-soprano returns to his hometown with his world class Kenneth Tarver, tenor / Patrick Bolleire, baritone Brooklyn-based dance group. The program will Seattle Symphony Chorale / Seattle Symphony include Pacific and the Seattle premieres of Jenn Ludovic Morlot leads the orchestra in Berlioz’s rarely performed masterwork and Spencer, Crosswalk, and Words.