Soar the Skies and Ride the Earth with OVER & UNDER at Annex Theatre

Annex Theatre's 30th season heralds the return of established artists with Over & Under, two interweaving one-act plays written by Juliet Waller Pruzan & Bret Fetzer, directed by Rachel Katz Carey.

Soar through the skies and ride underground in Over & Under, two one-act plays that spin off into alternative lives; some mundane, some dramatic, some completely fantastical! Cumulus begins on an airplane, where conversations between strangers reveal the complex lives of its passengers; Turnstile begins on a subway car where a young girl, riding alone for the first time, finds her imagination sparked by overheard conversations. Featuring an unwanted proposal, a haunted hospital, singing rats, and an outer-space booty call, these two plays will take you places you didn't know you wanted to visit.

"These days, there is real temptation to hide in our homes. After all, life is unpredictable and full of peril.? But out in the world, there are better stories, more surprises, and lots of magic. We gather in planes and trains because we have to get somewhere, but there we end up making connections, overhearing things that peak our imaginations. We mind the gap between the stationary platform and the moving train, but we also mind the gap between what we overhear and what we imagine, between reality and fantasy, between strangers and friends. In Over & Under, the gap is where the magic happens." - Director Rachel Katz Carey

Over & Under runs August 1 through 16 - Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. Industry night on Monday, August 14 at 7:30 pm. $10 general / $5 TPS, Senior, Military, Students. Annex Theatre is at the corner of 11th & Pike in Capitol Hill. Tickets at annextheatre.org.

CAST:

Sharif Ali
Mary Murfin Bayley
Daniel Christensen
Stanley Dang
Nic Morden
Caroline Rensel
Merry Senn
Steph Sola

DESIGN/PRODUCTION TEAM:

Playwrights - Bret Fetzer and Juliet Waller Pruzan
Director - Rachel Katz Carey
Lighting Design - Gwyn Skone
Sound Design - Chris Leher
Scenic Design - Ian Johnston & Bret Fetzer

Bret Fetzer has had several plays produced at Annex Theatre, including Passport, Clubfoot (co-written with Stephen McCandless), The Changeling (co-written with Thomas Middleton), Mars is a star who defies observation, The Story of the Bull, Bob Is Dead (co-written with Kevin Haggerty), and a previous collaboration with Juliet Waller Pruzan, Blind Spot. He also has directed many shows (favorites include plays by Scot Augustson and Kelleen Conway Blanchard), produced the late-night variety show Spin the Bottle for 17 years, has been Annex's Artistic Director twice, and married his wife, Tracy Leigh, on this stage at 1 am almost five years ago.

Juliet Waller Pruzan is a playwright, choreographer, and teaching artist. She was a dancer for many years and later, one half of the dance/theater duo, "Juliet and Stephen" with Stephen Hando. She has been collaborating with Bret Fetzer since 1998. Turnstile is the seventh play they have written together, not counting the many 14/48s they have done over the years. This is their third collaboration presented at Annex where she has also choreographed several shows and participated in various Spin the Bottles.

Rachel Katz Carey's award winning work as a director/dramaturg/instructor has been seen across the US and Canada in a 25 year career that spans Molière, Shakespeare, Stoppard, Dostevsky, Hans Christian Andersen and a dreamy musical astronomy show called Starball that has been performed in planetariums from Seattle to New York to Spain and will return to West of Lenin in September. She has been an associate director for theater simple for 20 years and has taught at Lewis & Clark College, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Washington and Taproot Theater in Seattle. Previous Annex shows include Classy Nonsense by Dan Hamann, Passport by Bret Fetzer and Blind Spot by Bret Fetzer and Juliet Waller Pruzan.

Nite Skool
Created by The Libertinis
with Max Kirchner and the ensemble
July 28 - August 19, 2017
Tickets at annextheatre.org

It's time to revisit the finer points of higher learning, hard lessons, and hot lunch in Nite Skool, created by The Libertinis with Max Kirchner and the ensemble! Tag along for this genre-blending, boundary-crushing skool nite full of music, dance, comedy, and so much more as we plumb the depths of our fine education system (including, but not limited to: sex "education," American imperialism, and dreams drowned in a bucket of meatballs). Annex Theatre darlings The Libertinis, wordsmith Max Kirchner, surprise Substitute Teachers, and a full roster of bad kids with good reputations will teach you that we always have more to learn.

Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness, and risk. We produce new plays by living playwrights, radical reinterpretations of classic scripts, and ensemble-generated non-linear spectacles. We've produced hundreds of world and regional premieres, including TPS's Gregory Awards Outstanding New Play recipients and nominees since 2011. 2016 Mayor Arts Legacy Award & TPS's Gregory Awards 2013 Theatre of the Year.

Photo Credit: Ian Johnston

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