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NPA MONTHLY READING SERIES PRESENTS
"Rush at Everlasting"
by Arlitia Jones.
Tuesday May 8th, 2012 7pm at Seattle Rep.
Against the backdrop of the 1930s, two women fallen on hard times make plans to rob a bank. While newsreels of the time tell of economic disaster and larger than life outlaws, the two women dream about what money will buy and what stories they will tell. One of the women, the 60 year old Woman Known as Ruby Gold, is already telling her stories as she relates her past filled with bank robberies by the Wild Bunch Gang and the gold rush in the Yukon where she once met a man who was trying to go straight after a lifetime of being on the run from the law. Real names and real lives are left behind as each character makes a run at becoming legend.
Arlitia Jones is the author of numerous plays. Her short plays have been staged in Anchorage’s Overnighter Theatre, at the 2006, 2007, 2008 Last Frontier Theatre Conference, in the Pacific Northwest, and most recently as a finalist in the 2011 36th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Summer Play Festival in New York City. Her first full length play Sway Me Moon was produced by Three Wise Moose at Out North Theatre in February of 2008 in Anchorage and again at the 2008 Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Along with Cyrano’s Theatre Company, Jones has also been the recipient of a grant from the Alaska State Humanities Forum to write Make Good the Fires in celebration of 50 years of Alaska Statehood. Make Good the Fires was produced by CTC in March 2009 at Cyrano’s Theatre in Anchorage. Her 10 minute play Grand Central and 42nd was chosen for finals at the 2007 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Summer Play Festival in New York City and her ten minute play Shoe Story was produced in Great Britain as part of the Northwest Playwrights’ Alliance British Tour. She is currently at work on a new full length, Come to Me, Leopards, about a women's running team. She is a member of the Playwright’s Center, the International Center for Women Playwrights and the Dramatist’s Guild of America.
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NPA MONTHLY READING SERIES PRESENTS
"It's Not Stealing" by Al Frank
Two panhandling vagabonds in the Seattle bus station, far from their birthplaces east of the Mississippi, have enough money to return home. Can the immigrant station custodian help them resolve to spend it on bus fare?
FEBRUARY 14, 2012, 7pm @ Seattle Rep.
About the Author
After seven years in the West African country of Togo and a run as a Capitol Hill bookstore owner, Al Frank began working on a play cycle featuring characters struggling to escape homelessness. He completed a two-act play, Ain't No Place Like Home in 2007, and the long one-act play It's Not Stealing in 2010. He is currently at work on the third play in the cycle. This fall he began a two year playwrights residency in The Seattle Repertory Theatre's inaugural Writers Group, which is a part of the Rep's New Play Program.
ALSO FEATURING
A brief and curiously romantic song by
Kyle Henick & Amalia Larson, ”Six More Beers”
"Re-Kiss," flash fiction by Seattle Rep's new Literary Associate, Christine J. Schmidt
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January 2012
NPA and WWU Anual Theater Ambassadors Tour
This year's theme: Tatemae - "The Public Face"
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
at 7:00 p.m.
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
in the Poncho Forum
155 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109
(FREE ADMISSION. DONATIONS ACCEPTED.)
ABOUT THE TOUR
Dr. Deb Currier & Professor Charlotte Guyette direct a stellar cast of WWU theatre students who will be performing short plays beginning with this reading at Seattle Repertory Theater. The tour continues during winter term 2012 with productions at numerous high schools, colleges and theaters along the I-5 corridor from Portland to Bellingham.
The tour culminates with performances in New York City and England. This will be the program's fifth year.
Featuring short plays by:
Arlene Hutton, Amy Tofte, Bryan Harthorne, Sheri Wilner, Doborah Yarchen and Bryan Willis
(Photo by Cassi Gallagher: http://www.cassicgallagher.com/)
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