Coming off their historic fourth win for Outstanding Theatre of The Year from the Gregory Awards, Sound Theatre Company announces their most compelling and relevant season to date. Producing Artistic Director, Teresa Thuman and Associate Artistic Director, Jay O’Leary, deliver a season of three hard-hitting works which seek to dissect power structures, ownership and envisions the path to a more just future. RETURN THE POWER will feature two world premiere productions and a classic satirical take-down of greed and corruption.
Sound’s 2020 season boasts inclusive casting, community building and Radical Hospitality ticket pricing starting at $5.
REPARATIONS
By Darren Canady | Directed by Jay O’ Leary
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute | Jan 8 – Feb 2, 2020
WORLD PREMIERE | CO-PRODUCTION WITH LANGSTON
Sound Theatre welcomes four-time Gregory Award nominee Jay O’Leary ( CITIZEN: AN
AMERICAN LYRIC ) back to the director’s chair for another season opener. In REPARATIONS , a
new piece of biotechnology gives humans the ability to time-travel via their own bloodlines. Award
winning playwright, Darren Canady, uses this piece to explore intergenerational trauma, family
secrets and the validity of recorded history. Sound Theatre is ecstatic to bring this bold work to
life in this co-production with LANGSTON whose sole mission is “ Cultivating Black Brilliance ”.
CHANGER AND THE STAR PEOPLE: Origin Myths of the Coast Salish and Dakota
Adapted by Fern Renville and Roger Fernandes | Di rected by Fern Renville
Isaac Studio, Taproot Theatre | March 26 – April 13, 2020
WORLD PREMIERE | CO-PRODUCTION WITH SNAG PRODUCTIONS
What if we could imagine a future in which citizens of Native American Tribes reclaim power and
spark a cultural revolution? In this world-premiere adaptation, Fern Renville ( Sisseton Wahpeton
Oyate ) and Roger Fernandes’ ( Lower Elwha Klallam ) share their respective Coast Salish and
Dakota origin stories, by envisioning a Tribally Sovereign future through myth, multi-media,
storytelling, puppetry, music, and dance. A co-production between Sound Theatre and SNAG
Productions (Seattle Native Artists Group), CHANGER and THE STAR PEOPLE stemmed from
an Indigenous play reading series which spotlighted nearly 40 Native artists throughout 2019.
THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT
By Jean Giraudoux | Adapted by Maurice Valency
Directed by Teresa Thuman ** with Monique Holt as Director of Artistic Sign Language
12th Ave Arts Mainstage | August 1-22, 2020
Exactly 75 years after this French play first premiered in Paris, Sound Theatre’s production of
THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT will reveal astonishingly prescient themes: ecological
destruction and capitalism’s ungentle hands funneling wealth into the one percent. Power-hungry
financiers scheme to extract oil from under Paris, but Countess Aurelia and her merry band of
outcasts are having none of it.
ASL BiLingual Production: As with Sound’s ’18 ASL Midsummer , The Madwoman of Chaillot
will be a bi-lingual production staged in spoken English, American Sign Language and captions