Don't Miss THUGS! by DG member Dave Tucker

Support your local playwright!

1/25-2/10.

The Knutzen Family Theatre of Federal Way presents THUGS: A Musical Mafiasco, music by Kim Douglass and Dave Tucker, lyrics and book by Dave Tucker (NW member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc).

It’s 1929, and two thugs banished from Chicago 's gangland community find work in the lazy town of Shady Groves as bodyguards for a man and a woman, both disguised as the late Anthony Sartori. Added to this are two feuding crime lords, their lovesick children, and an effeminate hit man, resulting in a whirlwind of mistaken identity. This farcical look at organized crime is laughter you cannot refuse!

3200 SW Dash Point Road, Federal Way, WA 98003. $16.

www.kftevents.com

Next Meeting Feb. 2nd @ 1:00 pm

Just a reminder that our next Regional Meeting is scheduled for February 2nd at 1 pm at the Seattle Center House, 4th floor, Room B.

(Please note we are on the 4th floor of the Center House. Allow for some extra time for parking and a very slow elevator...)

We'll talk about a few upcoming things like the Playwriting Forum in May, Friday Night Footlights, and other issues.

Hope to see you there!

Reading of Winter Bird

If you can make it to Bremerton...

Reading of Port Townsend playwright (and Dramatists Guild member) Stephen Delos Treacy's WINTER BIRD this Saturday, January 19th at 7 pm.

The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest
5889 State Highway #303 NE,
just north of the Outback Steak House, behind the Oroweat Bakery in East Bremerton.
www.changingscenenorthwest.org

Opening this weekend! VESTA

~VESTA~
by Bryan Harnetiaux

Megan Cole, who created the role of 'Dr. Vivian Bearing'
in the very first production of WIT, portrays the central character,
the smart and strong-willed Vesta.

[Run time: 80 mins.]

Please consider coming down and supporting us.
(We rely on donations to get our investment back on this worthy project.)

Reservations: 206.261.5064

ALSO FEATURING:

Cynthia Whalen
Terry Edward Moore
Anders Bolang
Brian Ibsen
Bob De Dea
Brittni Reinertsen

14/48 Festival January 4,5 & 11, 12th

What is 14/48: The Worlds Quickest Theater Festival?

January 4, 5 & January 11, 12-Friday and Saturday nights. Two shows nightly: 8:00pm and 10:30pm. See you all there!!

14/48: The Worlds Quickest Theater Festival is fourteen plays conceived, written, designed, scored, rehearsed, and performed in forty-eight hours.

14/48 debuted November 1997 in Seattle to praise from audiences, performers, and critics. The combination of deadline, talent, speed, nerves, and genius inspiration served to strip away the creative inhibitions from more traditional theater, proving that, contrary to popular opinion, sometimes the first idea is the best.

14/48 takes 7 writers, 7 directors and about 28 actors on Thursday, July 12. They all have pencil, paper and an instruction to complete this sentence: "Theatre would be a lot better if there were 7 plays about ________."

The scraps of paper are put into a hat and a theme is chosen at random. The 7 writers get character parameters (2 men and 1 woman, or 2 women and 1 man); they are sent home to each write a 10 minute play about the theme. Everybody else drinks beer.

Friday, January 4 at 8:30am: Writers show up with scripts in envelopes numbered 1 through 7. Directors pick envelopes at random and read the scripts they have blindly chosen. Everybody drinks coffee.

9:00am: Actors show up or wake up. Actors' and actresses' names are in two separate hats. Directors blindly select actors depending on the script's character parameters. Casts are sent to rehearsal rooms.

10:30am: Writers go home and catch up on sleep. The band shows up. They create a theme song for the evening and create sound designs as needed for each script. Everyone keeps rehearsing.

Throughout the day are lunch, band rehearsal, costume and prop runs. That's right. A band. The 14/48 band. The greatest band of all time. Bow before them.

3:30 - 6:00pm: Tech rehearsal. Each play gets 20 minutes of tech rehearsal. A run thru? Those are for wimps and perfectionists.

8:00pm: The shows are performed in front of a live and paying audience. The audience receives pencil, paper and an instruction to complete this sentence: "Theatre would be a lot better if there were 7 plays about ________."

At the end of the show, the new themes are in the hat and one is randomly chosen. The seven writers go home and each writes a new 10-minute play with new character parameters. Everybody else gets ready for the 10:30pm show and wishes for a beer.

12:00am Saturday morning: Everybody has a beer and then goes home to do it all over again in 9 hours.

9:00am Saturday, January 5: The process restarts with the same talented bunch of folks and 7 brand new plays.

12:00am Sunday morning, January 6: Everybody drinks a lot of beer. Trash talking begins between the first and second week groups.

Go to www.1448fest.com and get your tickets for January 4, 5, 11 & 12 because this mother sells out every night.