Sound Theatre Company’s Making Waves presents:
Fall Fest 2024
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Making Waves Fall Festival: Defiance, Resistance, Resilience—Together!
A three-month collection of new artistic works. Each month will feature new plays or films, each at different point in its development process—from completed projects to those hot-off-the-printer.
In the spirit of Sound Theatre Company’s 2024 season theme “An Invitation to the Table,” each month’s offerings will provide a “place setting” for audiences to explore the nuances and complexities of culture, language, and identity.
All the new works presented share thematic elements of confronting and navigating the call to create change—against social norms, cultural erasure, or the inevitability of illness—and locating the courage required to overcome unexpected challenges.
Sound Theatre welcomes everyone to these events, regardless of background and experience, so that we may exercise the muscle of being in community together!
The readings of The House Devours and A Scythe and a Sandglass the Skeleton Bore will be made possible by the generous support of House of One Eyed Cats.
Get Your Tickets Below!
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The House Devours
by Riley Gene
October 11 at 7pm
Black Box Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
“All the hers of the house are cursed” in the O’Halloran family. The Irish brood is staring down another bleak, hungry winter in 13th Century Connacht, Ireland when the wayward Aimiliona stumbles back home–but something has followed her. As dark secrets buried within the House resurface, the O’Halloran women must choose between satiating the House’s desires or defying their family’s fate.
The House Devours is made possible by the generous support of House Of One Eyed Cats.
A Scythe and a Sandglass The Skeleton Bore
by Mariah Lee Squires & S.W. Jones
October 12 at 7pm
Black Box Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
The year is 1938. Dr. Lawrence Walton, the direct descendent of Capt. Robert Walton, has acquired his ancestor’s collected writings. The very letters and journal entries which inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus, detailing the plight of Victor Frankenstein and his uncontrollable, murderous Creature. Dr. Walton is determined to rectify the calamitous failures of Frankenstein’s original experiment using modern science and a simple concept: he will tame his Creature by re-animating a female corpse.
A Scythe and a Sanglass the Skeleton Bore is made possible by the generous support of House Of One Eyed Cats.
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Changer: A Hand Telling
Public Film Showings
November 11th & 12th at 7pm
Black Box Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
A story told for families across generations
The beloved Coast Salish tale of Changer takes new form yet again – this time, as an innovative film presented in Native Sign Language.
Deaf director Howie Seago worked with playwrights Fern Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) and Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha S’Klallam, Makah), to create this first-of-its-kind, sign language-based film featuring two Deaf Native storytellers. Using original audio from CHANGER: RADIO PLAY, this film augments it with landscapes from the gorgeous Lower Elwha S’Klallam. Central to this project is Dr. Melanie McKay-Cody, serving as Director of Artistic Sign Language and Native Cultural Consultant.
Three years after Sound Theatre launched its first film amid the pandemic, CHANGER: A HAND TELLING will finally launch its first series of public screenings. The award-winning, Deaf-centric 65-minute film is an artistic form of cultural reclamation, centering modern versions of Coast Salish myths and the retention of Native and Indigenous sign languages.
Audiences have the option to attend one (or all three) screenings. In addition to the film screening, programming may include:
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- Live panels with original Deaf cast and creative team
- Discussion about landback and dam removal
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Confirmed programming and access details coming soon
Recover
by Helen T. Mariam
DECEMBER 9 at 7pm
Black Box Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
An inexperienced psychotherapist reluctantly takes on a new client: a rising Division 1 defensive back who is on suspension. It only takes four sessions for both characters to upend each other’s lives. Playwright Helen Mariam (known, most recently in Seattle, for Hedda Gabler) has crafted a contemporary tragedy where Black nihilism, modern gender relations, and false promise of American hustle culture take center stage.
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Eulogy
by Brendan Healy
December 10 at 7pm
Black Box Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory
You are invited to the memorial service of Brendan Healy. There will be remembrances of his life, his family, his navigation of illness and the American healthcare system, and his journey in the 80’s and 90’s to find Gluten Free products that don’t totally suck. The eulogy will be delivered by…Brendan Healy. In a new one-person show, this Seattle playwright chronicles his search over the decades for his perfect funeral while living with a terminal illness–and confronts the unexpected question of why he just won’t die already. In lieu of flowers, you’re encouraged to sing a song you love, bake your sister her favorite cake, or come to this reading of a new work in progress.