Annex Theatre Presents WOMEN IN PERIL, 4/29-5/20

 

Annex Theatre serves up a saucey satire of the Lifetime television genre in a new late night show WOMEN IN PERIL written by Joel Steinpreis & Craig Trolli and directed by Jason Sharp. Bad Actor Productions bring their campy nonsense and anarchic deviance to bear on the trashy world of 1990's Lifetime movies - the kind of trashy psychotic plot-defying guilty pleasure we secretly binged on with our moms! WOMEN IN PERIL runs Fri & Sat April 29th - May 20th @ 11p at Annex Theatre, 11th & E. Pike St. on Capitol Hill. Pay-What-You-Can shows Sat May 7th @ 11p and Industry Night Mon May 16th @ 8p. No show Fri May 6th. Tickets are $10 General and $5 TPS/Student/Senior and can be purchased on www.brownpapertickets.com  or at the door. Full Bar!

Starring Joel Steinpreis, Craig Trolli, Em'ma Gawd, Todd Hull, Jayson Potter & Peter Benjamin Farrar

WOMEN IN PERIL feeds the movies of Judith Light, Tori Spelling, and Meredith Baxter-Birney into a gender-bending blender and whips up a delicious satirical souffle of the infamously exploitative television-for-women genre. Will the heroines overcome their [tragic loss/eating disorder/drug addiction/homicidal urges] in time to save their [tweaked out learning impaired teenage daughter/obsessed gender-confused lover/sociopathic next door neighbor] from [impending obscurity/complete psychological breakdown/unspeakable violence/drag overdose/hallucinatory musical numbers]? Find out in this new late night comedy based on a true television network!

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Jason Sharp is a local Seattle actor/writer/director and a company member of Annex Theatre. Much like a battered husband has a long history of "stumbling" into doorknobs, Jason has a sordid past with Bad Actor Productions dating all the way back to 2005 when he first appeared in their seminal production of The Exorcist: The Musical! in the same space now home to Annex. Other Bad Actor credits include Desperate Liaisons, Capitol Hill High and numerous OCTVs. While fairly new to directing, Jason is no stranger to Annex Theatre having appeared in The Secret Lives Of My Coworkers, a handful of Spin the Bottles and as the mustachioed Cap'n in Alecto Issue #1. He is also a veteran actor of 14/48 The World's Quickest Theater Festival and Ian Bell's Brown Derby Series, and he's had the pleasure of working with Live Girls!, EXITheatre, Open Circle and Our American Theater Co.

ABOUT BAD ACTOR PRODUCTIONS:

Bad Actor Productions (BAPs) has been creating parodies and original work since 2003. They are the group behind Exorcist: the Musical! Desperate Liaisons, Super Females, Billie Jean: The  Legend, Working Gurl and numerous OCTV's such as Sex & The City and Roseanne. Bad Actors also appears at monthly cabaret/variety shows such as Bacon Strip at Re-Bar performing original sketches such as Notes on a Scandal the Musical and Golden Girls Burlesque! 

ABOUT ANNEX:

Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness, and risk. 

In addition to new plays by living playwrights, Annex produces radical reinterpretations of classic scripts, ensemble-generated non-linear spectacles, and dynamic solo performances, as well as our monthly late-night variety show Spin the Bottle, now in its 14th year. All productions are chosen by the Annex company as a whole, through a process of proposals, interviews, readings, frenzied argument, and final consensus. 

Annex incorporated on Bainbridge Island in 1986, and took residence in 1988 in a former dance studio on 4th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Since then the theater has produced hundreds of world and Northwest premieres, including new plays by Stranger Genius Award winners Chris Jeffries and Paul Mullin; dozens of other local playwrights, including Elizabeth Heffron, Jeff Resta, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Scotto Moore, Keri Healey, Scot Augustson, John Kaufmann, and Heidi Heimarck; and nationally recognized playwrights such as Erik Ehn, Naomi Iizuka, Glen Berger, Anne Washburn, Jeffrey Jones, and Nicky Silver.

Former Annex company members ("alumni") can be found throughout the Seattle arts scene (including former Artistic Director of the Empty Space Allison Narver, Executive Director of Town Hall Weir Harman, Development Director for A Contemporary Theatre Josef Krebs, and Education Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre Andrea Allen) and in local and national film (directors SJ Chiro, Garrett Bennett, and Mike Shapiro; actors Jillian Armenante and Paul Giamatti).

Former Annex company members can be found throughout the Seattle arts community, including Allison Narver, former Artistic Director of the Empty Space; Weir Harman, Executive Director of Town Hall; Josef Krebs, Development Director for ACT Theatre; Andrea Allen, Education Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre; and Gillian Jorgensen, Seattle Children's Theatre Teaching Artist-as well as in the local and national film industry, such as directors SJ Chiro, Garrett Bennett, and Mike Shapiro, and actors Jillian Armenante and Paul Giamatti. We believe that Annex?s distinctive collective working model (which cultivates a combination of initiative, diligence, and the ability to play well with others) is responsible for this remarkable track record of producing leaders in the arts.

Annex?s new Artistic Director is Pamala Mijatov, who rose to power in September of 2010.

 

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