PACIFIC PLAY COMPANY

AN EVENING AT MIDSUMMER MEADOWS

Join Pacific Play Company for a staged reading of a new play we are developing for the 2020 Season!

The play is a dystopian twist on A Midsummer Night's Dream. When 80-year old Grace elopes into the woods with her tango partner, Diego, all hell breaks loose at Midsummer Meadows Retirement Home. Grace is desperately trying to find her son, Jon, and remember what happened to him. An outrageous romp in the forest unfolds as Grace learns that the rules of the forest (full of drag queens competing for the “Queen de Luxe” competition and a fierce transgendered motorcycle gang) are very different from the rules of her retirement home and soon Grace remembers what she so desperately tried to forget.

DIRECTED by BUDDY TODD

Featuring
RUTH MCREE, TOM FRASER
TIM GAGNE, LINDSEY T H JACKSON
DAVID S. KLEIN, SHERRY NARENS
JOSH PADILLA & TOM STEWART

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8TH
7:00pm

TPS THEATRE 4
Armory Fourth Floor
305 Harrison (Seattle Center)

PLAY WILL BE PRESENTED MAY 7-17 | DOWNTOWN SEATTLE
STAY POSTED!

PLAYS BY:
Kelleen Conway Blanchard
Marcus Gorman
Kathryn Keller
Sherry Narens
Scott Stolnack

Pacific Play is adventuring with five local playwrights to create an evening of new plays based on the life of Lulu Vemelda. The collaboration is a writing relay: one writer starts the story, the next writer takes the story 10 years into the future, and then the next takes Lulu a decade further, and so on. We see the span of Lulu's entire extraordinary life, in 10-minute slices, in the space of a 90-minute show!

Lulu was born Lady Lucinda Bravera Mortaldo Blench. Her mother was a distant fragile woman who died of miasma when Lulu was only five. Her father the forbidding Duke of Blench never loved again. He spent his life cross breeding long haired rabbits and ferrets with little success and occasional bloodshed. Lulu’s upbringing was left to a progression of stern Nannies and sympathetic footmen. She was a lonely child who often wandered into the woods near her family’s vast estate. When she was 16- she found a glowing orb in a tree trunk. When she held the gleaming pulsating ball it catapulted her to another world. A word of monstrous gray buildings and screaming flying machines. In short- Lulu found herself able to walk through time. Using her orb she could bend time to jump into the world of now 2019 Seattle and float back to her origin in 1862- the height of Victorian England- the peak of the American Civil War. How did Lulu navigate her worlds? Where does she truly belong? (KELLEEN CONWAY BLANCHARD)

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
– Maya Angelou

Next Wave Playwrights Project!

Pacific Play is comitted to building a support structure that fosters new work. We are forming the Next Wave Playwrights Project a writing group for local playwrights. The writers meet twice a month and share new work, receive and give feedback, and generally help to support and encourage each other. The group will work on individual projects but also will work on presenting a team written showcase to be presented in the spring of 2020! Look here to be updated on meetings, readings and events.

ACTORS
We need readers for our Sunday afternoon meetings. You will read selections of work from writers in the group. Each meeting is 2 hours. A good opportunity to meet local playwrights & directors in Seattle. We are looking for all ages and types. $30 stipend per meeting!

If interested please forward headshot and resume to morganludlow@hotmail.com

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