Tag: Seattle Rep

• Mother Russia, No America

  

  Sooo….  The “great transformation” going on in the play — about Russia, and a society being slowly turned into a murderous oligarchic libertarian capitalist one –- should obviously remind us all, right NOW, of … Covid?! 

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Theater

  communism, Lauren Yee, Mother Russia, politics, review, Russia, Seattle Rep, Theater, ukraine

• Jinkxies! — “Get Ready Bitches ‘Cause It’s Monsoon Season!”

  

  “Get Ready ‘Cause It’s Monsoon Season!” is what Jinkx proclaimed as she was crowned the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race in Season 5.  Well, it was a slowly increasing pitter-patter (delayed, in part, by the plague), but Jinkx is now starting to truly feel more like a downpour.  I think Monsoon Season is really here…

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Music, Musical, Performance Art, Piano, Sketch / Improv / Cabaret Comedy, Theater

  2024, Jinkx, review, Seattle, Seattle Rep, Together Again

• Passengers, on Earth

  

  Soon, after the wonderful spinning rope work by Eduardo de Azevedo Grillo, I briefly thought the story might revolve around two lone souls who were becoming lovers, our trapeze artist and our rope artist.  But no, it is another vignette, another brief chance moment in ‘time’ — with no ‘main character,’ no real ‘destination’, no…

  S.E. Barcus

  Contemporary Circus, Dramatic Performing Arts, Theater

  Contemporary Circus, Passengers, Seattle Rep, Shana Carroll, the 7 fingers

• Ghosts — The Play that Returned

  

  Thus, on the topic of religion oppressing women, we need a MUCH more impassioned art, that speaks to all women, not just the Gen X and Boomer Rep audiences.  An art that really captures today, the here-and-now.  While I love the idea of this play, this production just doesn’t do that for me.  It feels…

  S.E. Barcus

  Dramatic Performing Arts, Theater

  Carey Perloff, David Coulter, Ghosts, Ibsen, Mastrantonio, Seattle Rep, Strathairn