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3 Days of Raw, Hilarious, Adventurous and Intelligent Theatre

Each year, Theatre Puget Sound works with One Reel to present a diverse showcase of Northwest talent including comedies, performance art, solo work, improvisation, participatory performance and physical theatre.

The Lineup for the TPS Stage Includes:

Balagan Theatre

Saturday, September 1 @ 5pm and Sunday, September 2 @ 4:45pm

In their brief history, Balagan has received Footlight Award from the Seattle Times for an arts company "on the rise," and their productions have received "Critics' Picks" and "Best Bets" from the Seattle Times, and the Seattle P-I, and positive reviews in The Stranger. Their production Space is a science fiction thriller about loneliness and madness. Two women are trapped on a deep-space vessel with one another as hostage and captor. Adrift in the far reaches of the galaxy, a lone pirate armed with a single gun is captured on a mysteriously empty ship. As she and her captor struggle toward freedom, their wits clash and we discover that loneliness is more vast than space itself.

Mark Boeker

Saturday, September 1 @ 6:15pm and Sunday, September 2 @ 3:30pm

A sensitive zombie, friendly ghost, underground survivor of an alien invasion and a corpse awaiting judgment are just half the characters featured in this apocalyptic, existential, death-mask comedy. Hell Songs is Mark Boeker's third original one-man show after Another Jackass Tries a One-Man Show and the critically acclaimed Unhinged and Low Flying. It was featured in last year's Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards and recently at Seattle's 1st Solo Performance Festival at Theatre Off Jackson.

Jerk Alert Productions

Sunday, September 2 @ 2pm and Monday, September 3 @ 2:30pm

Founded in Chicago and now based in Seattle and Chicago, Jerk Alert presents a show for children of all ages with Hogwash, An Improvised Tall Tale. Hogwash is an interactive education theater experience that integrates art, music and drama into an improvised story fueled by the imaginations of our audience. Actors create a spontaneous universe of magical characters, strange animals, and their adventures through daily life embellished by props created on the spot. Kids and adults enjoy taking the plunge into our vivid world of animals, monsters, heroes, and villains!

K. Brian Neel

Sunday, September 2 @ 6pm and Monday, September 3 @ 4pm

Neel's award-winning theater has been performed across North America, Australia, Edinburgh and Singapore. In VAUD RATS, which he'll perform at Bumbershoot, a washed-up Vaudevillian is reduced to singing his life story to the vermin in an abandoned warehouse. It's a tour-de-force Ukulele Operetta that Washington D.C. City Paper calls "Cool, quirky, kinda dark." NPR said, "IT ROCKED!"

Wing-It Productions

Saturday, September 1 @ 3pm and Monday, September 3 @ 6pm

Longtime Seattle Improv masters Wing-It present The Irish Wake, an unscripted comedy show that involves a dead person, friends, and family in a country house in 1950s Ireland. As the mourners mourn, their stories and flashbacks will tell the story of the recently departed. The wake-goers are unapologetic, hard-drinking and complete Irish stereotypes. Songs will be sung. Fights will break out. Bottles will be broken.

About Bumbershoot

The 37th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival is produced and presented by One Reel, in collaboration with Seattle Center and AEG Live. The 3-day event features a progressive mix of live music, comedy, dance, indie crafts, special exhibitions and installations, film theater, kids’ activities, and literary and visual arts. Bumbershoot showcases more than 1,500 artists in 20 venues at the 74-acre Seattle Center.

Tickets are on sale now at bumbershoot.org, Ticketmaster outlets, or by calling 206.628.0888, and beginning August 4 at select Western Washington Starbucks stores. There are no service fees for tickets purchased at Starbucks. Please note that tickets are date-specific, so the Festival schedule should be referenced before a ticket purchase is confirmed.

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