It's Not in the P-I: A Living Newspaper About a Dying Newspaper
When: Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through Nov 22.
Price: By donation
Phone: 800-838-3006
"Six Seattle playwrights—including Dawson Nichols, Stranger Genius Paul Mullin, Scot Augustson, Keleen Conway-Blanchard, and others—report on the life and death of the Seattle P-I. The scenes range from the crude cacophony of the newsroom to a reporter interviewing the mothers of victims of the Green River Killer to the sad absurdity of a resume-building workshop after the P-I closed. ('I have no clue how I fulfilled the 'corporate mission,"' one reporter says to the workshop instructor. 'I guess I sort of hope I didn’t.') The play is structured like a daily newspaper, with scenes jumping into one another like stories on a page, and it maintains a tense, journalistic energy: tragedy running hand in hand with absurdity; the struggle to hammer chaos into narrative order; public-interest stories interpolated with intimate, human-interest anecdotes; and a callous, bittersweet humor that helps the medicine go down." (Brendan Kiley)
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North Seattle
9600 College Way N
526-7791
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