Community Theatre's LaBute's WRECKS & Other Plays Opens 4/9

"Never say you know the last word about any human heart", Henry James

Neil LaBute's Wrecks and other plays, is a collection of rarely staged plays. In fact Mr. LaBute refers to them as a "group of bastards who have waited to find a home." They are not linked by a distinct theme. Yet seen alone or together they all illuminate the moral complexities of our individual and human condition. Mr. LaBute's characters and their stories, love them or hate them, shine an unapologetic light on the rawness of what it is to be human. These pieces are written with his usual wit, tenderness, and iconoclastic urgency.

Wrecks, is a monologue written "as a further investigation into the Greek theatre and, more specifically, how the themes and plots of those amazing plays might be utilized in a contemporary way." Wrecks poses as its central question: What is the capacity of the human heart to love and accept, even amidst enduring deceit? Wrecks will be performed in conjunction with some of the author's short-works including... Coax, Stand-Up, and Falling in Like.
ABOUT Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute is a critically acclaimed playwright, filmmaker and fiction writer. His controversial works include the plays bash: latter-day plays, The Distance from Here, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig and Autobahn; the films In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty and Possession; the play and film adaptation of The Shape of Things; and the short-story collection Seconds of Pleasure.

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THEATRE

The Community Theatre was formed in 2006. Our vision is to create theatre that is dedicated to the live, unknowable and surprising moments shared between an audience and actors. The Community Theatre will engage in meaningful stories that are pertinent to the times we live in. Our hope is to challenge, nurture, and enrich people's experience of the arts.

Wrecks, and other stories will close our third season. Last fall, we presented Neil LaBute's Autobahn in free and occasionally impromptu performances at close to 40 alternative spaces including, parks, private homes, retirement homes, coffee shops, restaurants, art galleries and hiking trails to name a few. The show culminated in a final run at the Thelma DeWitty theatre at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle.

Balagan Theatre
1117 East Pike Street
Seattle 98122

April 9 - 26
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8pm
Sunday Matinees at 2 pm
Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/

 

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