The HUMAN Family: Toward a Radical Inclusion
Sound Theatre presents a ground-breaking season unlike anything seen on Seattle stages.
In 2018, Sound Theatre is proud to mount a season of plays and events to consider the nature of THE HUMAN FAMILY. These offerings include unique productions of classic comedies, a Seattle premiere, Disability Theatre Project play-reading series of plays by disabled playwrights, art exhibitions, accessible performances and other experimental works as part of our Making Waves program.
RULES OF CHARITY
August 4 – 25, 2018
Directed by Leah Adcock-Starr
By John Belluso
Center Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
Seattle Premiere of this provocative and subversive play by the late John Belluso, a playwright who championed honest portrayals of people with disabilities. The older generation clashes with the younger in this “lacerating critique of altruism” (SF Weekly). Monty, a brilliant father who has Cerebral Palsy and uses a wheelchair, spars with his care-taker daughter in the haunting relationship at the heart of this play that examines what it means to be disabled and marginalized in modern American society.
Contains Mature Content.
ILLUMINATE: 6 PLAYS BY DEAF AND DISABLED PLAYWRIGHTS READING SERIES
July 12-28, Center Theatre Black Box, Seattle Center
Sound Theatre Company continues their 2018 season The Human Family: Towards a Radical Inclusion with a groundbreaking play reading series. ILLUMINATE: Six Plays by Deaf and Disabled Playwrightsinvites Seattle area audiences and artists to experience diverse and authentic representation in these six imaginative and unique plays. The readings are free and open to the public, and will be presented July 12 – 22 at the Center Theatre Black Box. Each play will have at least one ASL interpreted performance.
ASL MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
An ASL-Mainstream Production (Spoken and Signed American Sign Language)
Apr. 21- May 12, 2018
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Howie Seago, Co-Directed by Teresa Thuman
12th AVE ARTS Mainstage
We are thrilled to welcome Howie Seago, well known to Seattle and Oregon Shakespeare Festival audiences, who will bring his vision and vast expertise in Deaf Theatre to this version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Seago and STC Artistic Director Teresa Thuman will team up to stage the Bard’s poetic text as both spoken and signed in ASL for Deaf and hearing audiences. Recommended for all audiences. This production is also part of the Spring 2018 city wide Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare Festival.
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
February 24 – March 11, 2018
By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Teresa Thuman, Assisted by Sadiqua Iman
Center Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
Join the Vanderhof family as they live life to the fullest by doing what makes them happy in this idealistic comedy about our human family. Inclusive casting and the “chosen family” will be the centerpiece of this classic 1930’s comedy about a family living “to the beat of a different drum,” Tee Dennard, a founding member of Seattle’s Group Theatre, and Shermona Mitchell lead this cast as Grandpa and his novelist daughter, Penny Sycamore. Appropriate for all audiences.
Announcing our 2018 Season
The HUMAN Family: Toward a Radical Inclusion
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American Theatre Magazine The Human Family: Toward A Radical Inclusion.”
The Human Family: Toward a Radical Inclusion
Sound Theatre presents a ground-breaking season unlike anything seen on Seattle stages.
In 2018, Sound Theatre is proud to mount a season of plays and events to consider the nature of THE HUMAN FAMILY. These offerings include unique productions of classic comedies, a Seattle premiere, Disability Theatre Project play-reading series of plays by disabled playwrights, art exhibitions, accessible performances and other experimental works as part of our Making Waves program.
“There are great innovations happening around the country in these creative, evolving dramatic forms of cultural inclusion; I believe we in Seattle are behind in embracing this exciting theatrical movement,” said producing artistic director Teresa Thuman in a statement. “These days particularly, everybody needs to be invited to laugh, to love, to celebrate family and to dream of a better world. We also look forward to a long overdue conversation about the importance of people with disabilities in our art, our theatre, our storytelling and every aspect of our modern lives.”