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January 9-11 17-18 @ 7:00

The Wolves

By Sarah DeLappe

Ingraham High School - Little Theater 

1819 N 135th St, Seattle, WA 98133

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The Wolves

The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe, first debuted at The Duke Theater in 2016. This Pulitzer-nominated drama centers on the daily experiences of a group of high-school girls. Played out over a series of pre-game warmups for the girls’ indoor soccer team, the play deals with themes of isolation, anxiety, and community. A remarkably modern play, The Wolves handles current events like the Family Separation Crisis through the eyes of bystanders, using the agonizing disenfranchisement of these girls as an artistic cudgel. Another interesting outgrowth of The Wolves’ modernity is its unique style of dialogue. With multiple lines of dialogue layering over one another in a frenetic back-and-forth, the play stretches theatre’s conventions over a new and interesting form.

    The play’s characters are without names, instead being known by their team numbers, but the unique and vibrant personality of each is more identifiable than any “Tom,” “Dick,” or “Harry.” (Or “Tina,” “Donna,” or “Rudy,” as the case may be.) Lauded by the New York Times and The Economist, this contemporary work is only getting started when it comes to the impact it will surely have.

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Directed by Heidi Oveson

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Used and performed by permission from Samuel French Inc. 

January 16-18, 24-25 at 7:00 PM

Silent Sky

by Lauren Gunderson

Ingraham High School - Little Theater 

1819 N 135th St, Seattle, WA 98133

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Silent Sky

Silent Sky, by Lauren Gunderson, was first published in 2015, and debuted by the First Folio Theater in Chicago two years later. The show responds to themes of justice, obligation, and feminism with historical nuance and the backbone of a true story. Based on the life of the underappreciated astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the play ties imaginative technical aspects to a small cast of devoted actors.

    Henrietta Leavitt, Silent Sky’s talented and devoted heroine, was an astronomer at the Harvard College Observatory for the first decades of the 20th century. Leavitt’s discoveries in that period were numerous, but chief among them was her work relating to the luminosity of Cepheid Stars, from which she derived a method of measuring the Earth’s distance from other galaxies. This breakthrough changed the course of global astrology and made possible the work of later men like Edwin Hubble, yet the majority of her awards and honors were awarded posthumously. The nation was not kind to ambitious women, and her career was truncated by her death by cancer in 1924. The world is cruel in its vastness, but thanks to Henrietta Leavitt it is a little more knowable.

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Directed by Heidi Oveson, Assistant Direction by Will Domke

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Used and performed by permission from Dramatists Play Service

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Spring

BIG FISH

Ingraham High School - Auditorium 

1819 N 135th St, Seattle, WA 98133

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BIG FISH

Big Fish, by Andrew Lippa and John August, debuted on Broadway in 2013. Based on Daniel Wallace’s book “Big Fish: A Novel of Written Proportions” and Tim Burton’s 2003 movie adaptation, this musical plays out in several eras at once. In the present day, Will is preparing for the birth of his child, and to that end he returns home and attempts to reconnect with his own father, Edward. This storyline is interspersed with the story of Edward in the days of his youth, as told by the severely unreliable narrator of himself some 40 years later. As we see Edward encounter fantastical creatures of all sorts, Will’s search for truth strains his relationship with his father to the limit.

    Will and Edward are joined by a vibrant cast of characters, including giants, werewolves, circus managers, and more. It handles themes of fatherhood, family, patriotism, and truth. Through a dynamic combination of text and music, the audience is led through a hectic and, at times, contradictory web of fables. Classic country music infuses the score with a nostalgic sense of times long gone, and did we mention there’s a huge fish? What’s not to love?

Directed by Heidi Oveson, Assistant Direction by Izzie Cooper and Tommy Palmer, Music Direction by Katie Wood and Anna Gorham

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Used and Performed by permission of Samuel French Inc.

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