Performer and writer Christopher Vened brings his one-man show Human Identity to the Annex Theatre in Seattle this weekend, March 13-14, 8pm.
This inventive, funny and eye-opening piece of theatre is nothing less than a quest to discover the meaning of human identity. What does it mean to be human? Who am I? Christopher Vened explores the essential predicament of being alive without the sure knowledge of who we are and how we were created. His relentless pursuit for answers often turns to the absurd, for there are things humans are supposed to be unaware of and thus ignorance is our savior. What cannot be explained in words, is illustrated in mime. In Human Identity, Vened combines words and physical action in a unique theatrical formula that finds new means of expression and insight. The show runs 90 minutes; there is an intermission.
FOR INFORMATION AND TICKETS GO TO: http://www.annextheatre.org.
Vened premiered Human Identity at The Lounge Theatres in Hollywood on January 5, 2014 as a work in progress. However, the show was already in good enough shape to present to a paying audience and invite reviewers. Attracted by the subject matter they came-and the show created a great stir. Vened received enthusiastic responses from his audiences and some quite good reviews. It encouraged him to go on with it. So he polished up both his script and performance, and now he takes Human Identity on tour. So far he performed in Portland, Los Angeles, and New York. He participated in The 5th United Solo International Theatre Festival in New York in September, and in Solofest 2015 at the Whitefire Theatre in Los Angeles in February. He is thrilled to perform at the Annex Theatre in Seattle.
Christopher Vened embraces the formula of monodrama theatre because it invites freedom of individual expression with no limits. To stand alone on front of the audience and express oneself is something liberating, there is no other authority but "I." Well, it is, of course, easy to make a fool of one-self. So, one better have a good script, staging, and rehearsed it well to deserve to be there, on the stage. The audience is hungry for revelations, or at least entertainment. The performer has to deliver it. And that requires skills, talent, and to have something to say and/or show, a message they are awaiting for. Christopher Vened is aware of this responsibility. In his one-man show Human Identity he hopes to stir people's minds, he wants the audience to get excited by the ideas in the show, to take those ideas home with them and discuss them, talk about them for many days to come, so to speak, to go on their own quest for human identity.
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