Seattle's Artattack Theatre Ensemble Performs SHORTS: DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE, Opens 10/16

SHORTS: David Lindsay-Abaire will play the VoxBox Theatre beginning tonight through November 7th. The play combines three one act plays by writer David Lindsay-Abaire, best known for the Pullitzer Prize winning Rabbit Hole and as the book writer for SHREK: THE MUSICAL.

SHORTS will feature the three plays: Crazy Eights, Baby Food, and That Other Person, three one-acts written by Abaire. Crazy Eights surrounds Connie, who comes home late one night and finds her parole officer waiting in her apartment with a torte and a long list of questions. The interrogation/courting dance that follows is complicated by the after-hours arrival of Connie's charming card-playing buddy. Baby Food is a contemporary comedy about an off-kilter couple desperately searching for godparents for their newborn infant. Little do they know that the friends they've chosen are less than adventurous diners and on the verge of a divorce. Finally, That Other Person features Ginge and Kevin as they go to tell their respective spouses the marriage-shattering secret they've been keeping from everyone. Their bomb-shell gets put on the back-burner when a gorgeous peeping-tom, with secrets of her own, falls in the pool and nearly drowns.

Lindsay-Abaire has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Jerome Foundation, as well as awards from the Berilla Kerr Foundation, the Lincoln Center LeComte du Nuoy Fund, Mixed Blood Theater, Primary Stages, the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival, and the South Carolina Playwrights Festival.

He returned to the scene of his Fuddy Meers success, the Manhattan Theatre Club, with Wonder of the World, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, about a wife who suddenly leaves her husband and hops a bus to Niagara Falls in search of freedom, enlightenment, and the meaning of life. Other plays include Rabbit Hole, produced in 2006 with Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, and John Slattery, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, Kimberly Akimbo (2000), Wonder of the World (2000), Dotting and Dashing (1999), Snow Angel (1999), The L'il Plays (1997), and A Devil Inside (1997).

Tickets for SHORTS are available online through Brown Paper Tickets, here. Tickets range in price from $5 to $25. Performances take place Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm through November 7, with a special Sunday performance on November 1 at 2pm.

For more information, visit Artattack's website at www.artattacktheatre.com.

 

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