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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 2008 TPS Stage Includes:

theater simple

Saturday, August 30 @ 1pm and Monday, September 1 @ 4:45pm

An all-ages spectacular theatrical adventure based on Hans Christian Andersen's THE SNOW QUEEN. Gerda ventures out into the wide, wide world to find her best friend, and discovers herself and the meanings of love in her travels. theater simple has crafted a richly evocative award-winning, breathtakingly beautiful show with a raucous, smart physical sensibility that speaks to all ages. Fairy tales: Not just for kids anymore…"THEATRICAL MAGIC." The Stranger. "AWESOME!" 6th grade boy Touring internationally since 1991, theater simple produces innovative, entertaining and ambitious theatrical experiences. We do theater. Simple. PLAY WITH US.

Unicycle:a solo collective

Saturday, August 30 @ 2:45pm and Monday, September 1 @ 3pm

Seattle’s destination for original solo theater, Unicycle Collective’s Keith Hitchcock, Mary Purdy and Seth Rosenbloom plus guest artists, deliver a captivating buffet of short performances ranging from the silly to serious and poetic to absurd that will ignite Bumbershoot audiences.

CD Forum CREATION PROJECT artist: Rachel Ferguson

Saturday, August 30 @ 4:30pm

Everyone likes a good story, especially if it involves dancing, jukeboxes, and a sledgehammer that smashes Zeus’ head. The The Oh, My God It’s So True Story of (Halle Berry) Halebereis about how happenstance is inspiration and how Halybere, muse of randomness, stays true to who she is. This piece premiered as part of The CREATION Project, the first year-long new works and professional development program created by the CD Forum to support distinctive local African-American artistic voices. The CREATION Project showcase represents the diversity and excellence of local contemporary performing arts. Rachael Ferguson is an actress and playwright hailing from the City of Roses, Pasadena, California. Rachael's writing explores the hyperboles of Black Americana kitsch, folklore and the spectacle of pop caricatures. She received her BFA in Theater; Original Works emphasis from Cornish College of the Arts in 2004.

RK Productions

Saturday, August 30 @ 6pm and Sunday, August 31 @ 6pm

Classic boy-meets-girl, gets-high, steals-from-church, has-an-orgy-with-the-devil, flips-off-Jesus Musical with a truly inspiring finale! Clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence. A highly stylized and satirical political commentary, based on the 1930s propaganda film about the dangers of marijuana."

Suzanne Morrison

Sunday, August 31 @ 4pm and Monday, September 1 @ 1pm

Suzanne Morrison is a writer and performer based in Seattle. Her one-woman show, Yoga Bitch -- about everything that can possibly go wrong on the road to enlightenment-- has taken the stage in New York, Maui and Seattle, and internationally in London and Oxford. It’s a wild 75-minute ride that anyone who has ever found themselves looking for peace, spirituality, or a washboard stomach can relate to. Suzanne is also the author of a novel, Yoga Bitch, (or All the World’s Like This). Upcoming projects include a new solo show about the perils of island living, entitled Your Own Personal Alcatraz, and a collection of short stories, Vegetable Remains.

Memory War Theater Project

Monday, September 1 @ 6:30pm

The Seattle PI says “Tikka Sears’ ‘work created under compulsion’ is a powerful exploration of the struggles” of people forced to create in order to survive. Connection and alienation drive this bold visually stunning theater piece first presented at the 2007 NW New Works Festival. This multimedia theater production features innovative movement, projection and live soundscape. Audience members are encouraged to contribute stories by visiting www.memorywartheaterproject.com

Richard Hugo House Resident Company:Next Stage

Sunday, August 31 @ 1pm

For the Bumbershoot crowd, Next Stage is cooking up a ten-minute play sampler that’s sure to please every palate. Fast and furious theatre, these bite-sized plays are big on ideas and long on flavor. Featuring an assortment of new, never-before-seen work by local playwrights— Scot Auguston, Lenore Bensinger, Joy McCullough-Caranza, Mike Daisey, Ki Gottberg, Elizabeth Heffron, Mayra Sea Kaminiski, Mark Kension, John Longenbaugh, Paul Mullin, S.P. Miskowski, and Stephanie Timm. Next Stage, in residence at Richard Hugo House on Capitol Hill, produces vital, progressive live theatre, and commissions new plays with themes of social, political & cultural relevance. Check out our FIRST WEEK FREE initiative—the opening week of every production is free on a first come, first served basis.

Richard Hugo House Resident Company:SIS Productions

Sunday, August 31 @ 2:30pm

SIS Productions, currently in residence at Richard Hugo House, presents previous and new scenes from their hit show exploring the lives and loves of four contemporary Asian American women. "Imagine Amy Tan's Joy Luck girls with real, hormonally-driven libidos and you have playwright Kathy Hsieh's witty Sex in Seattle series in a nutshell." - Seattle Weekly

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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. Please note that tickets are date-specific, so the Festival schedule should be referenced before a ticket purchase is confirmed.

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