5 things to know about tEEth Feb 28, 2012
by Jessica
We're only a few short days away from opening the newest work by tEEth. Get reacquainted with the company with these 5things to note:
Sneak Peek: details of Phone Homer Feb 21, 2012
by Jessica
Michelle Ellsworth is constructing her very own internet as part of the upcoming Phone Homer. This includes meticulously crafting everything from Google to the advertisements that appear throughout various websites.
Seattle Chamber Players present a new Icebreaker Feb 20, 2012
by Jessica
OtB alums the Seattle Chamber Players are back with a new edition of the Icebreaker Festival. Now in its sixth year, the group has turned its visionary eye to the Mediterannean - the entirety of it.
12 Minutes Max and Joe Goode Performance Group Feb 16, 2012
by Jessica
12 Minutes Max will be happening this Sunday and Monday, so here’s an event for your Saturday night:
Kirkland Perfromance Center presents
Joe Goode Performance Group | The Rambler
Sat | Feb 18 | 8pm
Worth Seeing Twice Feb 11, 2012
by David
Mariano Pensotti’s extraordinary production, El pasado es un animal grotesco, offers great rewards for multiple viewings. I was lucky enough to catch the show at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival in New York last month, and then again last night at On the Boards.
Carousel Feb 10, 2012
by Tania
When I was in 6th grade, I was so hyped to go see Les Miz at the Playhouse Theater in Cleveland. Looking back, I'm embarassed by my Broadway phase (as are so many of us) but there is one very clear image that remains with me from that production: Valjean and Javert in the sewer system.
Of Self-allienation and Other Monsters Feb 10, 2012
by Carla
The line between fiction and life becomes blurred as creation, re-creation, and the metamorphosis of oneself continues throughout the years. Argentine author and theater director Mariano Pensotti has created more than fifteen performances in the past ten years, among them El pasado es un animal grotesco ‘The Past is a Grotesque Animal’.
As the World Turns Feb 10, 2012
by Adam
As The World Turns
February 9, 2012 7:15PM
Shannon is driving a gold colored 1990 Honda Civic (they like to call Goldie) down Denny avenue in bumper to bumper traffic. She and Adam have just come from Catherine Cabeen's introduction to the Bill T Jones documentary A Good Man at Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill.
Revolution Feb 10, 2012
by Lyall
Pablo receives a large shoebox in the mail that contains a severed hand. He puts it in the freezer, and for ten years mulls over its various possible meanings (and periodically freaks out). Vicky sorts old photographs and discovers that her father has a secret, second family. She begins to spy on him and, as time passes, enters a kind of secret life of her own.
Split focus Feb 10, 2012
by Bret
El pasado es un animal grotesco is one of the rare On the Boards presentations that succumbs to linear language, perhaps because it’s so text-based itself.
Choose Your Seat Wisely Feb 10, 2012
by Josh W
Why am I compelled to write a justification for choosing your seat wisely? The answer is twofold. First, The Past Is A Grotesque Animal is a brilliant piece of theater and demands your attention. And second, where you sit will greatly affect your experience of the performance.
The Past is a Grotesque Animal Feb 10, 2012
by Eric P
The analogy of a grotesque animal standing in as spokes model for the past can be appropriate. The wild metamorphosis that occurs as you look back on your life...at the space between who you are now and what was can be like a living thing.
Five things to know about Mariano Pensotti Feb 8, 2012
by Jessica
This weekend the El pasado es un animal grotesco, the epic megafiction of Mariano Pensotti, is opening up in Seattle. Here are a few things to note about Mariano before heading to the theater:
How do you create a turntable set? Feb 7, 2012
by Jessica
The massive truck containing the many pieces for El pasado es un animal grotesco has arrived and the great set construction has begun. In the next day something like this will be happening:
Seattle magazines are picking Mariano Pensotti! Feb 2, 2012
by Jessica
The magazines have been picking Mariano as one to not miss next week.
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