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- Northwest Hiphop Rockets to the Top: Major Players Break Down the Scene
- Other Breaking-Talent Hiphop Events of Note
- The Meaning of Clothes: A Thread Runs from Fashion to Art
- Huffing the Spoken Word: Choice Literary Inhalants
- Dance Picks: Moody Movements
- Theater Preview: Super Stagings
- The Original Tripper: Donovan Sets the Tone for Narcotic Sonic
- Look and Listen: Ben Rubin Gives Shape to Sound
- The Impresario: Warren Etheredge Makes a Safe Haven for Film Fanatics
- Shorty McShortersons: The 1 Reel Film Fest Puts On a Show
- Pizzazz!
- Blow Your Mind Wide Open: Expansive Hiphop from the New and Old Schools
- Pharmaceutical Pop: The Dandy Warhols Bring It in Spades
- Boo-Tay-Licious: Bobby Bare Jr.'s Advice on the Birds and the Beeyotches
- All You Need to Know About the Ink Spot: But Were Too Confused to Ask--Plus, What to See and When
- Hot or Snot?: The Deeper Question of Who's Hotter, Writers or Rock Stars?
- Advice for Young People: From Musicians Who Know Better
- Poet vs. Poet: Andrei Codrescu and Sheri-D Wilson square off in Bumbershoot's Heavyweight Poetry Bout
- SELECT SHOWS: For Your Listening Pleasure and Pain
- SELECT ART: For Your Visual Pleasure (no pain)
This year's Bumbershoot offers things that thrilled your parents (Theater Schmeater's solid-but-familiar stagings of classic episodes of The Twilight Zone) and things that thrilled your grandparents (Radio Activity, A Theater Under the Influence's solid-but-familiar "backstage" staging of episodes of Flash Gordon and other radio serials)--so if you're craving the Hawkmen of Mongo, here's your poison.
Fresher material can be found with two new plays by strong local playwrights: Keri Healey's Parrot Fever (Or, Lies I've Told in Chat Rooms) is adult in all senses of the word--the characters engage in some pretty steamy online sex while grappling with crumbling relationships and the loss of a friend. Healey captures lust and grief with the same unflinching eloquence; Brendan Kiley described this production in The Stranger as "simply a solid piece of theater moving, funny, erotic, and repulsive by turns."
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Additionally: Maria Glanz performs See Me Naked. Unexpected Productions presents some long-form improvisation (including instant biographies of audience members and a one-act play made up on the spot), and Wing-It Productions presents Twisted Flicks, in which they take a trashy old film and make up an entirely new soundtrack as the movie unspools. Two relatively new groups, Burnt Studio and Breeders Theater, present Progression and Piglet respectively--the first is "movement theater," an often disastrous idiom that in this case seems promising, and the second somehow combines Hamlet, Peter Pan, and more into a blender, and then names the whole postmodern goulash after a character from Winnie the Pooh. It's short; might be worth the chance.
Unexpected Productions appears at the Biringer Farm Charlotte Martin Theatre on Saturday from 7:45 to 9:15 pm, and Sunday and Monday from 1:30 to 3 pm. All other shows are at the Theatre Puget Sound Stage: Twilight Zones (Sun, 7-7:45 pm, and Mon, 3-3:45 pm), Radio Activity (Sat, 3-4 pm), Parrot Fever (Sun, 5-6:15 pm), See Me Naked (Sat, 7-8 pm, and Mon, 6:15-7:15 pm), Twisted Flicks (Sat, 5-6:30 pm), and Progression and Piglet (Sun, 3-4:15 pm).
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