The Rules of Charity

The Rules of Charity – Live Theatre

Directed by Leah Adcock-Starr

by John Belluso

Aug 2 -Aug 25, 2018 7:30 PM

Center Theatre at the Seattle Center Armory

Friday’s performance Aug 17th at 7:30 pm will have CART captioning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences.

Seattle Premiere of this provocative and subversive play by the late John Belluso, a playwright who championed honest portrayals of people with disabilities. In “The Rules of Charity” The older generation clashes with the younger in this “lacerating critique of altruism” (SF Weekly). Monty, a brilliant, queer 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. (click link for spoiler details)

Sexual Themes
Theatrical depictions of violence and abuse
Homophobic slurs
Ableist language and arguments

New Ticket Pricing

Sound Theatre Company is experimenting with new ticket pricing for this production to help make our work accessible for all. We have four tiers, available at any performance:

$5 – Inclusion Rate

$25 – General Admission Rate

$50 – Patron Rate

$75 – Benefactor Rate

You are welcome to purchase tickets at any price you choose. There is no difference in service or seating among the price levels; the higher rates reflect the true cost of producing our high-quality, award-winning work. Sound Theatre appreciates your commitment to supporting art and artists in your local community.

Please note that no portion of the ticket price, at any level, is tax-deductible. If you are interested in adding a tax-deductible donation to your ticket purchase, there is an opportunity to do so at check-out.

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Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory

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Photo: Yoon-ha Noh – Photography

Download The Rules of Charity Program (pdf)

Cast:

Monty Andrew Litzky

Loretta Sharon Barto

Horace Fune Tautala

LH/ Mr. Millicent Hisam Goueli

Paz Maile Wong

This project was supported, in part, by an award from 4Culture.

And support from our sponsor: Studio Pacifica – Accessible Design and Accessibility Consulting

And Media Sponsorship from KUOW

Director- Leah Adcock-Starr

Leah Adcock-Starr is a theatre director, educator, scholar, who has made her home in the Northwest for the past six years. Previously, Leah taught and directed for companies throughout Twin Cities Metro Area in Minnesota, and served as the Teen Programs Coordinator for the Tony Award winning Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company. In Seattle, Leah spends a lot of time wrestling with, working on, and writing about the plays of William Shakespeare. As as an teaching artist and educator for Foundry10 and Bellevue College, Leah’s work focuses on identity, equity, and social change in Shakespearean contexts and otherwise.

Leah is the founding Artistic Director of Off Road Shakespeare Company, a traveling ensemble of actors, musicians, activists, and clowns that bring brave and beautiful productions of Shakespeare’s plays to public spaces and places not typically home to theatrical performances. Off Road plays for free, for all. In addition to site specific work, Off Road tours to homeless shelters, community centers, and public libraries in and around the Seattle Metro Area.

Leah can sometimes be convinced to make plays in traditional theatre spaces but only if asked very nicely. Favorite adventures in making great plays with good people in rooms with matching chairs, lighting grids, and ticket prices have found Leah directing Caroline Bird’s TROJAN WOMEN (Civic Rep – WA), an all female HAMLET (Theatre Unbound – MN), JULIUS CAESAR (Handwritten Productions – WA), TWELFTH NIGHT (UW School of DRAMA – WA) and Ellen McLaughlin’s HELEN (20% Theatre – MN) as well as co-creating an original exploration of the life and work of JM Barrie for the 2016 Seattle Fringe Festival with her husband and favorite collaborator, Kieran.

When not teaching or making plays, Leah can be found running her dog in circles around the U District, supervising and scooping for The Barking Lounge with dogs that are not her own, reading reading reading, navigating a turbulent relationship with social media, and learning to play the cello.

Leah holds BAs in Theatre Arts and Theology and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington School of Drama.

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.