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josh aaseng june 9 - july 3, 2015
PICTURED: Robert Bergin, Todd Jefferson Moore, and Erik Gratton. PHOTO: John Ulman DESIGN: Shannon Loys JUNE 2015 JUNE 9 - JULY 3, 2015 ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY JOSH AASENG I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE D O G OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE GET WITH IT Visit EncoreArtsSeattle for an inside look at Seattle’s performing arts. 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Henry Art Gallery, gift of Yuri and Zoe Gurevich, 2012.109. © Estate of Ilse Bing Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Vice President Erin Johnston Communications Manager Genay Genereux Accounting HENRY ART GALLERY HENRY A R T.O R G encore art sseattle.com 3 CONTENTS JUNE 2015 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Adapted and Directed by Josh Aaseng Robert Bergin, Todd Jefferson Moore, and Erik Gratton. PHOTO: John Ulman DESIGN: Shannon Loys PICTURED: A1 JUNE 9 - JULY 3, 2015 A-1 Welcome A-3 Slaughterhouse-Five Credits A-8 Meet the Cast and Crew A-13 Thank You to Our Contributors A-16 Company Information ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY JOSH AASENG I AM OF IRELAND | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | THE D O G OF THE SOUTH | LITTLE BEE | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE ES065 covers.indd 1 4/29/15 1:31 PM ENCORE ARTS NEWS Visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com Q & A with playwright Wayne Rawley BY BRETT HAMIL Wayne Rawley is a playwright, director, actor and Cornish grad. He’s a regular contributor to the 14/48 Festival and Sandbox Radio Live as well as a teaching artist with ACT’s Young Playwright’s Program. You might’ve seen some of his work produced last year in the form of Theater Schmeater’s Attack of the Killer Murder…of Death! and Seattle Public Theatre’s Christmastown: A Holiday Noir. Rawley just completed a run directing his play Live! From the Last Night of my Life, winner of the 2012 Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play. The production reunited the cast and crew of the acclaimed 2011 show. Continuing this month’s run of notable Seattle playwrights, Rawley joined me for a handful of questions. See more interviews with Seattle theatre artists every Friday over at EncoreArtsSeattle.com. What’s the best performance you’ve seen lately? This is a trick question because I just opened a show. If I say, “The best performances? Why the performances are in MY show of course!” I sound a little disingenuous. And if I say some other performances then my cast chases me around the room with knives. But here is the truth. One truly great performance for me this past weekend was turned in by Jessamyn Bateman-Lino. She is the assistant stage manager for Live! From The Last Night of My Life. She runs our backstage before during and after every performance. She is a tireless, 4 ENCORE STAGES rock solid support to the show. She was at every single rehearsal, she helps keep the hundreds of moving parts backstage greased and spinning, the entrances happening, the play moving forward. She sets up before the show and leads the clean up after. We could not do Live! From The Last Night of My Life without her and she does it night after night, flawlessly. The best performance this weekend you didn’t see. Even if you did. Crazy, right? So you are going to have to trust me. It truly is a sight to not behold. ENCORE ARTS NEWS What’s the best meal in Seattle? One Word. Med Kitch. Two words actually, but each cut in half to equal one word. It’s the insider way to say The Mediterranean Kitchen (I made that up). On Boren just north of Madison. My favorite food in the city that is not a Dick’s Burger. That scream you heard back in 2005 and you didn’t know what it was but it sounded close? That was me living in Los Angeles learning that their original Queen Anne location had closed. But they have been back for a while now and if you love garlic, you should stop whatever you are doing and go get some shwarma. Or the Farmers Plate, which is chicken wings covered in a sauce so good we must not speak of it. If you don’t love garlic, well then, you’ve got bigger problems than I can help you with. What music gets you pumped up? What do you listen to when you’re sad? The first thing I do when I think I have something I want to work on is make a playlist. I have lots of playlists. I’ve been listening to a lot of disco lately. I like disco because it is the music of people who feel very strongly that they are sexy and yet may or may not actually be sexy. For the last year I’ve had this idea for a play in my head and I don’t have a clue about what it is except for a vision of the poster that says the play’s title (I don’t know) and right under the title it says “Now with 75% more DISCO!” I can’t wait until it’s written so I can stop listening to so much disco. When I’m sad I listen to The Wailin’ Jennys’ cover of Neil Young’s “Old Man.” Female voices singing in harmony take my eyes to the sky. What’s the ideal setting for writing a play? Right before it is due is always the most ideal setting for writing a play. Beyond that, there is not any such thing. Not anymore. If I’m going to write, it’s got to be whenever I can, wherever I am. 4 a.m. On the train. Any coffee shop with an empty outlet and some type of sausage breakfast sandwich. I do a lot of writing on my bike commute. I wrote this paragraph on my bike. I forgot the rest of it, but it was very insightful. What’s the most useful thing anyone’s ever taught you about working in theatre? A dear friend and teacher, Judith Weston, taught me, “There is no Passive Income.” That means that in the theater, if you want it to work, you have to be there. And be there. And be there. You can’t write it and walk away. Oh, and “Play Your Pain.” August Wilson taught me that. (Pause. Removes hat.) For more previews, stories, video and a look behind the scenes, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com PROGRAM LIBRARY CALENDAR PREVIEWS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT encore artsseattle.com 5 ENCORE ARTS PREVIEWS SoUNd theatre company 2014 GreGory AwArd TheATre of The yeAr Summer 2015 SeaSon REvOluTiON and REvElATiON SeaTTLe PremIere! by MARCUS GARDLEY A co-production with BROWNBOX THEATRE directed by Tyrone Brown TIckeTS - brownpapertickets.com www.SoundTheatreCompany.org JULY 16 - AUGUST 2 CENTER THEATRE Seattle Center Armory Summertime provides the perfect backdrop for big, bright musicals and Shakespeare in the park! Here are some performances to look forward to this summer: Wicked July 8—August 9 This Tony Award-winning musical takes place long before a tornado carried Dorothy to the Land of Oz. Elphaba is a sweet but misunderstood green-skinned girl and Glinda is ambitious, popular and spoiled. The story of friendship, trust and betrayal reveals the hidden history of Oz and the women who would become its most famous—and infamous—inhabitants. Godspell July 10—August 15 This song-and-dance takeoff on the Gospels has travelled around the world to Broadway and back again. Featuring tuneful parables in the form of memorable songs like “Day By Day” and “Learn Your Lessons Well,” Taproot presents the musical as an appropriately sunny and hopeful summertime treat. Taproot Theatre Grease July 9—August 2 The students of Rydell High School capture the innocence and raunch of adolescence on the verge of adulthood with musical backing by rockin’ Seattle mainstays The Dusty 45’s. Thrill to the songs you know by heart (“Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” “Beauty School Dropout,” “You’re the One That I want”) with Danny, Sandy, Rizzo, the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds. 5th Avenue Theatre 50 years ago, some parents had just two choices: institution or revolution. So they started Northwest Center — and a revolution to include people of all abilities at school, at work and in the community. Join the Revolution. nwcenter.org/revolution Celebrating 50 Years As You Like It Henry IV July 9—August 9 Experience the works of the Bard in the open air with Wooden O’s summertime park productions. Surrounded by soft breezes and warm sunlight, join Rosalind and Celia in the Forest of Arden for the romantic comedy As You Like It, or cavort and intrigue with Prince Hal and Sir John Falstaff with Part I of the thrilling royal epic Henry IV. Wooden O, various Seattle area parks For more previews, stories, video and a look behind the scenes, visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com 50th Anniversary Title Sponsor Media Sponsors PROGRAM LIBRARY 6 ENCORE STAGES CALENDAR PREVIEWS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com The Rising Star Project at 5th Avenue Theatre Robert Bergin; photo by John Ulman ENCORE ARTS NEWS BY BRETT HAMIL ONSTAGE June 9 - July 3 SLAUGHTER HOUSE-FIVE EMMA HASSELBACH KURT VONNEGUT The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Rising Star Project puts kids in charge of a mainstage production with training and support from in-house professionals. Everything, even administrative work like fundraising and marketing, is run by the kids. It’s a big institutional undertaking that will reap long dividends in talent development, giving youngsters unprecedented access to the inner workings of a large theatre house. MATHEW WRIGHT has directed each of the Rising Star shows since the program’s inception in 2012. “Every year I learn as much from them as I hope they do from us,” says Wright, “It’s hugely instructive. It’s a great playground as a director, too, to try out different ways of explaining things to different levels of actors and to work those chops.” I spoke to some of the Rising Star students about their experiences and what they’ve learned so far. Kleo Chrisafis, props and set, stage left How did you get involved in the Rising Star Project? I used to be involved in the drama program at the first high school I went to but now I go to a smaller high school that doesn’t have one, so I was looking for an opportunity to do theatre. What are the most valuable things you’ve learned? Being pushed to always be here five minutes early and get my things done. Being accountable and taking on responsibility and then following through with what I need to do, because if not the show won’t run as smoothly. We treat the whole you. Attentive care that considers every aspect of your health. Naturopathic Medicine • Counseling Acupuncture • Ayurveda • Nutrition Healthy.BastyrCenter.net | 206.834.4100 encore artsseattle.com 7 TICKETS FROM 26 $ Visit EncoreArtsSeattle.com ENCORE ARTS NEWS CND Rising Star Project, continued Howard Family Stage Rachel Andres, development team Under the Tents • Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada June 4 – Sept 26 1-877-739-0559 • bardonthebeach.org 8 ENCORE STAGES What have you learned? One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that things don’t always go as you’re expecting them to go. We were working on a lobby campaign where we were going to do a curtain speech asking audience members to donate money as they left the theatre. We tried it one night, but it was decided that the curtain speech didn’t go with the artistic vision of the show. We had to adjust our plan to how we were going to still try to raise money while being conscious of the show. Adrian Lockhart, actor, Starkeeper and Strong Man say. My director, Mat [Wright], gave us some notes and he said when he was doing acting, he’d always feel like he owed something to that character. What was the character trying to pursue? What’s his main objective? What have you learned so far? Professionalism and trying to live in the moment. For a lot of actors it’s hard to still be that character and believe what you’re acting, but it shouldn’t be about acting, it should be that you’re trying to make it into a reality. What are you going to do with this knowledge? After I’ve learned everything I can—because there’s always new stuff to learn—I hope to take my talent to Los Angeles and pursue my career in acting and movies. How do you stay in the moment? By not losing focus, not losing sight of things that are in the outside world, staying in character and honestly believing what you Rehearsal photos courtesy Rising Star development team member Emma Hasselbach. imagined truth “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” OSCAR WILDE, THE IMPORTANT OF BEING EARNEST A New Season of Children’s Stories Turn to page A-12 to see which titles we’re adapting in our 2015-16 Touring Season! As an actress, director, musician, and arts educator, I have made my living traveling between two truths—the imaginary and the real. And I will continue to traverse that connection of imaginary and real truth as Book-It’s director of education. You might think the idea that truth has two meanings is incomprehensible. But look at Kurt Vonnegut’s worlds in SlaughterhouseFive—the real, World War II world and the other-worldly Trafalmadore—the story straddles both worlds giving it its own life. As an artist and arts educator, the notion of two worlds built of opposite, interdependent truths best describes what we do both on stage and in the classroom. As an artist, the world of imaginary truth is where I first adventured with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nancy Drew before my interest shifted to Pecola, Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In this world I created art as Frida Kahlo Rivera, analyzed poetry while in the skin of Dorothy Wordsworth, and inhabited the Bard’s comedic and tragic kingdoms. I have introduced this world to my son who, at age eleven, enjoys exploring the planet Tatooine with Luke Skywalker, adventuring the seas with Poseidon, and finding the magic at Hogwarts. As an arts educator, it’s in the world of real truth that real work happens and real lives are changed. Real truths have proven the arts foster analytical, practical and creative thinking skills in students while better preparing them for the 21st century workforce. It’s real truth that the arts opportunity gap is widest for children in high poverty schools and that the persistent lack of access to arts education is detrimental to our future. It’s in this world that I work to provide opportunities and programming that celebrates an interactive relationship between youth and literature that encourages the joy of reading, enhances student and teacher learning—and celebrates imaginary truth. With deep respect for Oscar Wilde, I argue that truth is pure and often simple, as long as you fully embrace which truth you are experiencing at the time. For me, I will continue to travel between the two as often as I can. Enjoy the show, Annie DiMartino Director of Education Meet Annie DiMartino, Our New Director of Education Annie joins us following her tenure at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where she was in charge of all educational programming and oversaw their Next Stage Resident/Intern Program. We are thrilled to have her on the Book-It team. encore artsseattle.com A-1 2015-16 MAINSTAGE SEASON DECEMBER 2 - JANUARY 3, 2015 SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 18, 2015 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by RAYMOND CARVER Emma by JANE AUSTEN Book-It revisits Jane Austen’s match-making classic in honor of the 200th anniversary of its publication. An evening of stories adapted from the 1981 collection by Northwest native Raymond Carver. MAY 3 - JUNE 26, 2016 The Brothers K by DAVID JAMES DUNCAN Part One: Joy to the Wordl! // Part Two: The Left Stuff From the celebrated author of The River Why—an uplifting novel spanning decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Presented in two full-length parts. IPTIONS R C S B U S T ONLY START A $100 S U B S C R I B E TO DAY B O O K - I T. O R G JANE JONES & MYRA PLATT, FOUNDING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS | DANIEL Y. MAYER, MANAGING DIRECTOR SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Adapted and directed by Josh Aaseng cast Robert Bergin Rory Eaden† Jim Gall* Erik Gratton* Martyn G. Krouse Jocelyn Maher Cobey Mandarino* Benjamin McFadden Todd Jefferson Moore* Eleanor Moseley Joshua Ryder Riley Billy Pilgrim Ensemble Vonnegut / Ensemble Billy Pilgrim Bernard O’Hare / Ensemble Valencia / Barbara / Ensemble Derby / Ensemble Lazzaro / Ensemble Billy Pilgrim Mary O’Hare / Ensemble Weary / Ensemble Shanahan† Ensemble Slown† Ensemble Jason Sydney Tucker Montana Wildhack / Ensemble Artistic Team Catherine Cornell Scenic Designer Ben Burris & Zane Exactly Puppet Designers & Consultants Kent Cubbage Lighting Designer Pete Rush Costume Designer Myra Platt Music Director Louise Butler* Stage Manager Matt Starritt Sound Designer Gin Hammond Dialect Coach Lindsay Carpenter Dramaturg / Assistant Director Emily Penick Choreographer Tom Dewey Fight Choreographer Victoria Thompson* Assistant Stage Manager * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States † Book-It Acting Intern season support Lucky Seven Foundation media sponsorS Additional generous support is provided by individuals and by The Ex Anima Fund, The Williams Miller Family Foundation, and Spark Charitable Foundation. Many thanks to all our supporters! encore artsseattle.com A-3 God Bless You, Mr. VOnnegut notes director from the When I first picked up a copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, I was in my early twenties and we had just shocked and awed the nation of Iraq with our superior military science. In fact, I watched the bombing of Baghdad on live television during spring break. My generation’s wars are broadcast live, and we get to watch as cities are destroyed in real-time. I wonder what the destruction of Dresden would have looked like on CNN. Like many young idealists who first encounter Slaughterhouse-Five, I was immediately taken with its biting humor and anti-war sentiment. But, as I have perennially reread the book and now as I work with a tremendous group of artists on this production, I have come to admire it for all the questions it asks, and for the few answers it provides. How do we make sense of the tens of thousands of innocent civilian deaths in Dresden in the midst of a necessary and justifiable war? If wars and human massacres are inevitable, then what are we to do? Shrug and say, “So it goes”? Ignore the awful times and focus merely on the good? Perhaps most compelling to me is Kurt Vonnegut’s (often hilarious and irreverent) exploration of what war does to the individual and how one returns home after experiencing its atrocities. In 2015, we are still discussing these issues, and “PTSD” is common parlance in our society. We’re aware of the internal wounds the men and women bear home from the battlefield, and at least have a vocabulary to approach a healing process. But what was it like for the young men returning home 70 years ago? These things were less understood and even less publicly discussed. Like the character Billy Pilgrim (and his real-life author), many World War II veterans struggled years later to find real peace on the home front. With very few resources compared to today’s returning veterans, those men were left to construct their own methods of coping with what they experienced overseas. Some of those methods were constructive, some destructive, and some altogether unique—like this tale of Billy Pilgrim. Josh Aaseng Adapter & Director PHOTOS FROM THE REHEARSAL ROOM For more behind-the-scenes stories and photos, visit our blog book-it.org/blog A-4 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A soldier at age 20, Vonnegut became a Prisoner of War during the Battle of the Bulge and survived the Dresden Bombing while in a slaughterhouse 60 feet underground. After returning from the war, he married and had three children. His first novel was published in 1952. In 1957, Vonnegut’s life was altered drastically when his sister died from cancer and her husband died in a train crash two days later. Vonnegut and his wife took in three of their children to raise with their own. Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969, transformed Vonnegut from a writer with a small cult following into a popular literary icon. He became increasingly outspoken about his political beliefs. He was especially critical of George W. Bush’s presidency and the increases in American militarization following September 11, 2001. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, though his legacy lives on. THE VONNEGUT BIBLIOGRAPHY NOVELS COLLECTIONS Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat’s Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions(1973) Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976) Jailbird (1979) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galápagos: A Novel (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus Pocus (1990) Timequake (1997) Canary in a Cathouse (1961) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Nothing Is Lost Save Honor (1984) Fates Worse than Death (1991) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) A Man Without a Country (2005) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Look at the Birdie (2009) While Mortals Sleep (2011) Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941-1943 (2012)* We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012)* Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012)* Sucker’s Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing (2013)* If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Advice for the Young (2013)* PLAYS Penelope (1960) Fortitude (1968) Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy (1972) Make Up Your Mind (1993) Miss Temptation (1993) L’Histoire du Soldat, adaptation (1993) DID YOU KNOW? The full title of Slaughterhouse-Five is: Slaughterhouse-Five or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, A Fourth-Generation GermanAmerican Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too Much], Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire Bombing of Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe,’ a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From. Peace. *published after Kurt Vonnegut’s death encore artsseattle.com A-5 BOMBING DRESDEN 70 YEARS LATER, THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUES DRAMATURGY BY LINDSAY CARPENTER BEFORE AFTER BEFORE Before the firebombing, Dresden in Germany was known as a historic city, reputed for its art, architecture, and culture and nicknamed the Elbflorenz or “Florence of the Elbe.” The bombing of Dresden on February 13-15, 1945 remains deeply controversial. Disputes continue over why the city was bombed, its innocence, and even the number of people killed. On February 13, 1945, Dresden experienced a combined attack by the American USAAF and Britain’s RAF that lasted until February 15. Over a thousand tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city. The attack destroyed eighty percent of the main city center and fifty percent of the remaining area. Dresden was in ruins. Dresden’s bombing is often described as a senseless crime. At the time of the bombing, the city was filled with thousands of refugees from all over Europe and lacked enough air raid shelters to protect and hold the number of people staying in the city. The city was seen as innocent of war, lacking sufficient air defenses to defend itself, and given how close the Allies already were to the end of the war, the city’s destruction is often explained as an Allied revenge, meant only to terrorize Germans. Yet Dresden’s image as an innocent city is partly myth. Claims that it was an open city—“a city declared to be unfortified and undefended and so, by international law, exempt from enemy attack” (Oxford Dictionary)—are false. It was not officially, under law, an open city. That said, many in World War II perceived it as such. Furthermore, it was not removed from the war as many critics claim. Dresden did have war-related industries and was a railway hub for German soldiers on their way to the Russian front. Though it had suffered little damage by 1945, it had experienced previous air raids during the war. Nonetheless, the attack was unexpected and flew in the face of the prevailing belief that the Allies had chosen Dresden to be their postwar administrative capital and planned to spare the city. Plus, with the Eastern Front drawing nearer, Dresdeners were more afraid of an attack from the east than from the air. Among the controversies over Dresden’s bombing is the question of how many people were killed. It’s impossible to say for sure, especially since it’s unknown how many refugees had entered Dresden by that point. Estimates range from 8,000 deaths to 500,000, though more recent assessments typically fall between 35,000 and 135,000 with 35,000 as the generally accepted amount. Kurt Vonnegut cites 135,000 deaths in Slaughterhouse-Five. Though general awareness of the Dresden bombing on February 13-15, 1945 has increased exponentially, in great part due to Slaughterhouse-Five, the event remains controversial. Were the Allies justified in destroying the city? Did it serve any strategic purpose? Was it an acceptable target or an innocent city massacred out of revenge? And how many civilians were actually killed so close to the end of the war? AFTER BEFORE AFTER “From ‘Irritable Heart’ to ‘Shellshock’” 2012. <http://io9.com/5898560/from-irritable-heart-to-shellshock-how-post-traumatic-stress-became-a-disease>; “New Name Could Mean Less Stigma.” 2012. Washington Post. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-name-for-ptsd-could-mean-less-stigma/2012/05/05/gIQAlV8M4T_story.html>; National Institute of Mental Health. “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).” <http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml>; Bowe, Meghan Kathleen. “Framing Memory: The Bombings of Dresden, Germany in Narrative, Discourse and Commemoration after 1945. 2009. <http://bit.ly/1DOc3Rz>; History.com. “Bombing of Dresden.” <http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-dresden>; Taylor, Alan. “Remembering DresA-6 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE NAMING TRAUMA While the term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is relatively new (introduced in 1980), the condition is not. During World War II, it became increasingly accepted that all men were vulnerable to the symptoms, though many doctors and generals had little patience or sympathy for those who experienced it. The condition has been called by more than 80 names over the centuries. As the term changed, so too has the stigma and treatment surrounding the condition. Nostalgia Diagnosis for Swiss soldiers in 1678 Homesickness or “Heimweh” Term given by German soldiers in 1600-1700s Maladie du pays French name, 1600s-1700s. Translates “Disease of the country” Estar roto Spanish name, 1600s-1700s. Translates “To be broken” Soldier’s Heart, Irritable Heart, or Da Costa Syndrome Jacob Mendez da Costa’s diagnosis, based on chest-thumping, anxiety, and other symptoms in U.S. Civil War veterans Otis Archive/Flickr or Neurasthenia Hysteria Victorian term for those with excessive neurosis or nervousness Shell Shock Common term from WWI Combat Exhaustion or Combat Fatigue Popular term during WWII and the Korean War PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTS or PTSI Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Alistair Hobbs/Flick r PTS SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Symptoms of PTS can disrupt a person’s daily routine and make it difficult to sleep, eat, and concentrate. Reminders of the traumatic moment or event can trigger these symptoms. Re-experiencing symptoms • • • Nightmares Scary thoughts Avoidance symptoms Introduced in 1980 when it was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Within the last decade, specialists have begun dropping the “Disorder” part of PTSD. The change is due to the stigma surrounding the word disorder. Another alternative substitutes “Injury” for “Disorder.” Flashbacks • • • • • Avoiding places, events, or objects that remind the person of the experience Feeling emotionally numb Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry Losing interest in activities that were previously enjoyable Having trouble remembering the traumatic event Hyperarousal symptoms: • • • • Easily startled Feeling tense or on edge Difficulty sleeping Angry outbursts den: 70 Years After the Firebombing.” The Atlantic; 2015.; Kennedy, David M. “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.” 1999.; “Dresden WWII bombing pre-and after pictures (English).” <http://www.alien8.de/dd/page-1.html>; Ellmers, Frank. “Dresden Survives as Potent World War II Symbol.” 2005. Los Angeles Times. <http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/13/news/adfg-dresden13>; “The WWII Dresden Holocaust – ‘A Single Column of Fame’.” Rense.com. <http://www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm>; Fowler, George. “Holocaust on Dresden.” 1995. The Barnes Review. <http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/dresden-e.html> encore artsseattle.com A-7 meet the Cast ROBERT BERGIN Billy Pilgrim Robert is thrilled to make his Book-It debut with SlaughterhouseFive. He recently appeared as Steve Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire at Civic Rep, and also as Bertrand and the Director in 5 by Beckett with Sound Theatre Company. Other credits include Harrison in Terre Haute with Bridges Stage Company, Middle Scrooge in A Christmas Carol with ACT Theatre, and Patrick Rowen in The Kentucky Cycle with Bainbridge Performing Arts. Robert also performed in the award-winning web series Wrecked, from Honey Toad Studios. He is a company member of Washington Ensemble Theatre, and holds an MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program. RORY EADEN† Ensemble Rory is a Seattle-based actor, singer, and guitar player making his Book-It debut with SlaughterhouseFive. He is a proud recent graduate of Cornish College of the Arts where he received his BFA in musical theater. Recent credits include Singin’ in the Rain with Showtunes Theatre Company, The Messiah and All Things Irish with The Inverse Opera, the regional premiere of Bonnie and Clyde the musical with Cornish College of the Arts, The Secret Garden and Grand Hotel at Cornish Playhouse, and a number of vocal performances and cabarets around town including the Columbia Tower Club and the Paramount Theatre. So it goes. JIM GALL* Vonnegut / Ensemble Some of Jim’s favorite Book-It credits include The Dog of the South, If I Die in a Combat Zone…, Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Border Songs. His most recent credits include a national tour of The Miracle Worker with Montana Rep as Captain Keller, The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O Theatre, and The Bunner Sisters with Athena Productions at Theatre Off Jackson. Other favorite roles include Atticus Finch in To Kill * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Acting Intern A-8 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE a Mockingbird and Mountain McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight. Locally Jim has worked at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Village Theatre, and ACT Theatre, to name a few. Jim has been named best actor by the Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards three times. He is proud to be married to the talented and beautiful Kelly Kitchens. ERIK GRATTON* Billy Pilgrim Erik is ecstatic to perform with Book-It and to help tell this story in particular. He moved to Seattle in 2012 and has worked at Village Theatre in Mary Poppins and played the title roles in their productions of The Foreigner and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes. Other favorite projects across the country include the one-actor show Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol and playing some of Shakespeare’s best characters including Hamlet, Rosalind, and Jacques. He also played a beaver on “Grimm” and is the cohost of The Lazy Muses Podcast. Up next is Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play at ACT Theatre this fall. MARTYN G. KROUSE Bernard O’Hare / Ensemble Martyn is pleased to make his Book-It debut in Slaughterhouse-Five. A Seattle-based actor and voiceover artist, Martyn has been seen in acclaimed productions at several Seattle theatres including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Sound Theatre Company, and Annex Theatre, among many others. He has also appeared in a number of feature films, including A Bit of Bad Luck, and on the network television show “Grimm.” He lives in South Seattle with his partner, Amy-Ellen, his daughters, Mary Rose and Amelia, and their leopard gecko, Sam. www.martyngkrouse.com JOCELYN MAHER Valencia / Barbara / Ensemble Jocelyn is very thankful to be returning to Book-It with Slaughterhouse-Five. She was last seen on the Book-It stage portraying Dolores Price in She’s Come Undone, for which she earned a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding Actress. She has worked with various companies around the Puget Sound area including Seattle Public Theater, The Horse In Motion, Macha Monkey, 14/48, and ACT Theatre. Jocelyn holds a BA in drama performance from the University of Washington. COBEY MANDARINO* Derby / Ensemble Cobey will be originating the role of Mike in Jenny Connell Davis’ new play, Goddess of Mercy, at the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival this summer. His latest film, Refraction, is premiering at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Cobey’s Seattle theatre credits include Dick Whittington and His Cat with Seattle Children’s Theatre and She’s Come Undone and The Financial Lives of the Poets with Book-It. His New York theatre credits include productions at Roundabout Theatre, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, and American Theatre of Actors. He and his fellow castmates earned The New York Times’ Ensemble of the Year honors for Roundabout Theatre’s revival of David Rabe’s Streamers. His television credits include “Grimm” and “Law & Order” on NBC and “Six Degrees” on ABC. BENJAMIN MCFADDEN Lazzaro / Ensemble Ben is absolutely thrilled to be returning to the Book-It stage for his sixth production. Previous Book-It credits include The Financial Lives of the Poets, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, The Cider House Rules, Parts I & II, and The Highest Tide. A Northwest native and a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, Ben has worked with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Sandbox Radio Live, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, 14/48 Projects, Balagan Theatre, ArtsWest, Theater Schmeater, Greenstage, and many others. On top of acting, Ben also loves working with young people as a teaching artist. You can catch Ben next in Vincent Delaney’s The Art of Bad Men with MAP Theatre, directed by Kelly Kitchens. TODD JEFFERSON MOORE* Billy Pilgrim Todd happily returns to Book-It where he appeared in The Financial Lives of the Poets and A Tale of Two Cities. Other recent local appearances include The Ramayana at ACT Theatre; Crash, The ELEANOR MOSELEY Mary O’Hare / Ensemble Eleanor is delighted to be back at Book-It, last appearing here in The Art of Racing in the Rain. Recently seen in The Long Road with Arouet, in August she’ll play Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter at SecondStory Repertory. Other favorite local credits include Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, The Torchbearers, The Ladies of the Corridor, The Familiar, The Way of All Fish, and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Recent film work includes Regulate, You’re So Vain, Children of Light, and The Dark Horse. An aspiring playwright, her scripts have been staged at Seattle Fringe Fest (2014), The Northwest Playwrights’ Alliance, and will be part of the upcoming Seattle Play Series. JOSHUA RYDER Weary / Ensemble Josh is honored to be making his Book-It mainstage debut with Slaughterhouse-Five. Last season he toured The Phantom Tollbooth with Book-It’s Arts and Education Program. Josh is a proud graduate of the University of Washington’s drama department, and since then has worked at Village Theatre, Theater Schmeater, Seattle Musical Theatre, and frequents Studio East’s Storybook Theater. He’s an avid believer in “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt” and thanks you for coming. RILEY SHANAHAN† Ensemble Riley is a Sacramento native, graduate from Cornish College of the Arts, and is thrilled to be working with Book-It. Most recently, he appeared (and disappeared) in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Tartuffe featuring R. Hamilton Wright. Up next, you can see Riley perform at the 2015 Intiman Theatre Festival. Some favorite school credits include Wait— Is This Graded?! and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Cornish and The Crucible with University of Oregon. He is also a voice-over artist, teacher, and film actor. He dedicates his performance to his late grandpa, Bob “Timer,” who served as a naval captain on the USS Mugford in WWII and to all those suffering from PTSD—may they find peace. † JASON SLOWN Ensemble Jason is thrilled to make his Book-It debut in Slaughterhouse-Five. He is a recent graduate of Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in acting and he spent a summer training in St. Petersburg, Russia where he received a certificate of achievement in the Stanislavsky system. School credits include Professor/Jerry/Brian in Jim Cartwright’s Road, Egeus/Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Andrei in Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, and Robert in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. He lives in Seattle. SYDNEY TUCKER Montana Wildhack / Ensemble This is Sydney’s first show with Book-It. Past credits include Late Night Bites with Ghost Light Theatricals, The Adventures of Owl and Pussycat with theater simple, At Capacity with soikowski research | performance, and Quickies 14 with LiveGirls! Theater. You may have also seen her on stage at 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival or performing around town as her burlesque alter ego, Daisy O’Day. Sydney is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. www.sydneytuckerperformer.com meet the Edge of Peace, and The Wizard of Oz at Seattle Children’s Theatre; Crime and Punishment, Uncle Vanya, and The Grapes of Wrath at Intiman; Waiting for Godot, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Electra, and The Miser at Seattle Shakespeare Company; and Dancing at Lughnasa, OPUS, and Thom Pain (based on nothing) at Seattle Rep. Artistic staff JOSH AASENG Adapter / Director Josh is an actor and director based in Seattle. Directing credits include Jesus’ Son, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Passion, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (assoc. dir.) and The Seagull (asst. dir.). He is a consulting director on Frank Boyd’s The Holler Sessions, which premiered at On the Boards in January, and which will be presented at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in the Netherlands this August. Josh is the literary manager for Book-It Repertory Theatre, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. CATHERINE CORNELL Scenic Designer Catherine is happy to work with Book-It yet again after designing Truth Like the Sun, Jesus’ Son, and several touring shows in their Arts and Education Program. Other scenic design credits include Master Harold… and the Boys with West of Lenin; Henry IV with Freehold Theatre; Red Light Winter and 25 Saints with Azeotrope; Undo, Zapoi!, and Precious Little with Annex Theatre; Into the Woods with STAGEright; and Cloud Nine with University of Michigan. Catherine is also a skilled prop artisan (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored; The Financial Lives of the Poets; and She’s Come Undone with Book-It Repertory Theatre) and scenic artist (Oz: The Great and Powerful by Walt Disney Pictures). www.catcornell.com KENT CUBBAGE Lighting Designer This is Kent’s fourth show with Book-It, following Geek-Out, Jesus’ Son (Gregory Award-nominated for lighting), and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Recent theatre and dance designs include Moisture Fest, Sam Boshnack Quintet/Karin Stevens, and Converge at Velocity; Twelfth Night with Seattle Shakespeare Company; and The Explorers Club and Appalachian Christmas Homecoming with Taproot. He also recently assistant designed An Evening of One Acts with ACT Theatre and A Room With a View and A Chorus Line with The 5th Avenue Theatre. Other recent endeavors include designing lights for Emerald City Comic-Con, The Dismemberment Plan, and Josh Rouse and showing his large-scale interactive lighting art at Sea Compression. He is a resident designer at the Triple Door, the Neptune, the Crocodile, and Theater Off Jackson, and teaches and designs at Seattle University. PETE RUSH Costume Designer Pete previously designed costumes for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Truth Like the Sun, The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Night Flight for Book-It, along with scenery for Sense and Sensibility. Seattle designs include Hamlet, Electra, Antony & Cleopatra, A Doll’s House, The Merchant of Venice, and Cymbeline for Seattle Shakespeare Company; Rapture, Blister, Burn, and Little Shop of Horrors for ACT Theatre; Jasper in Deadland and RENT for The 5th Avenue Theatre; The Adding Machine for New Century Theatre Company; Sprawl, BedSnake, Sextet, and encore artsseattle.com A-9 meet the Artistic staff Tall Skinny Cruel Boys for Washington Ensemble Theatre; as well as productions at ArtsWest and Seattle Public Theater. Regional credits include Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. MATT STARRITT Sound Designer Matt is a freelance sound designer for both theatre and dance and a writer from Seattle. He is currently the sound design associate at Seattle Repertory Theatre, and is a parttime lecturer for the UW’s School of Drama. In Seattle he has designed for Book-It, The Cherdonna and Lou Show, Intiman and the Intiman Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Waxie Moon, and was a founding member of the Washington Ensemble Theatre. Nationally, he has designed for the Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, Illusion Theatre, and South Coast Repertory. LOUISE BUTLER* Stage Manager Louise is glad to return to Book-It having previously worked as assistant stage manager for The Art of Racing in the Rain and Border Songs. Louise has been a part of stage management teams for Village Theatre (Around the World In 80 Days, Mary Poppins, In The Heights, The Foreigner, Trails, Big River), Seattle Shakespeare Company (King Lear, A Doll’s House, As You Like It, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, Wittenberg; Wooden O’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and Macbeth; and the educational touring productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth), Balagan Theatre (Carrie, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Full Monty, Closer, Othello), Showtunes Theatre Company (Miracle on 34th Street), Theater Schmeater (Twilight Zones), the Northwest Folklife Festival, Giant Magnet, and 14/48. VICTORIA THOMPSON* Assistant Stage Manager Victoria is a freelance stage manager. She was the production stage manager at Book-It for three and a half seasons where she worked on several productions including Pride and Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Jesus’ Son, and She’s Come Undone. Other credits include The Holler Sessions with Frank Boyd presented by On the Boards, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with ACT Theatre, Waiting for Godot and Richard II with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Tails of Wasps with New Century Theatre Company. LINDSAY CARPENTER Dramaturg / Assistant Director Lindsay is excited to be working on Slaughterhouse-Five. Previously with Book-It she worked as the assistant director for The Dog of the South and as dramaturg for I Am of Ireland. She is also their year-long literary artistic intern. Lindsay’s primary focus is as a playwright and director, and she has had her plays produced and workshopped in Seattle (Theatre Battery, Eclectic Theatre), Boston (Boston Shotz, Bare Bodkin), and California (Barnyard Theatre, ACME Theatre). In April, she received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Undergraduate Playwriting Award for her play Borders. BEN BURRIS Puppet Designer & Consultant Ben is excited to be making his designer debut with Book-It! A Seattle actor and part of the absurdist comedy group Le Frenchword, Ben is also a puppeteer with Thistle Theatre, a local children’s puppet theatre. You may have seen him recently in Zapoi! at Annex Theatre, SnowGlobed with Playing in Progress, and The Boy at the Edge of Everything at Seattle Children’s Theatre. www.BenBurris.com ZANE EXACTLY Puppet Designer & Consultant Zane is a visual artist turned theatre artist and has a BFA in sculpture. He works for Thistle Theatre as a puppeteer and in repair/tech. He is also part of the clown/puppet duo Good Evening, Mr. Homunculus, who have their own show at Annex Theatre this fall: Mad Scientist Cabaret. He is a fanatical horror fan, a ravenous reader, a producer of puppets, and an admirer of alliteration. GIN HAMMOND Dialect Coach Gin is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre grad, a certified voice geek, and is very happy to be collaborating with this army of talents. She teaches voice, voice-over, public speaking, and dialect coaching at the Seattle Voice Institute, and can be heard on commercials, audiobooks, and a variety of video games including Undead Labs: State of Decay, DotA 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. EMILY PENICK Choreographer Emily is the artistic associate at ACT Theatre. Recent movement credits include fight choreography for Othello with Seattle Shakespeare Company, movement direction for Mary’s Wedding with New Century Theatre Company, choreography for Don Nordo Del Midwest with Café Nordo, and choreography/ direction of Distance, a dance and poetry piece. Recent directing credits include The Other Woman, Wandering, and the world premiere of the devised short play Pot of Gold at The Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Favorite associate directing credits include Bethany with ACT Theatre, The Seagull with American Players Theatre, and War is F**king Awesome with Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company. Emily, who was born in California, raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and who earned her MFA in directing from Ohio University, is grateful to call Seattle’s thriving theatre community home. emilypenick.com TOM DEWEY Fight Choreographer Tom is honored to join the team of Slaughterhouse-Five. As an actor and fight choreographer, his work has been seen around the Puget Sound Region. For BookIt, he has choreographed the fights for Great Expectations, The Financial Lives of the Poets, She’s Come Undone, and Little Bee. He also played the role of Fisher in Border Songs. Other credits include Brad in Gloucester Blue at Harlequin Productions, Titus Lartius in Coriolanus with Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew with GreenStage. Tom is an actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and a proud graduate of the theatre arts and history programs at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. MYRA PLATT Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she adapted and directed Little Bee and directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Cowboys Are My Weakness, among others. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Acting Intern A-10 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE production staff A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). She has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary grant, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. JANE JONES Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Cyrano, Pride and Prejudice, and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage which won the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the American Union for Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award. BRYAN BURCH DANIEL Y. MAYER ELIZABETH STASIO† Managing Director This past November, Daniel joined the staff of Book-It as its managing director. Most recently, he spent eight years at the Kirkland Performance Center. Prior to that, Mayer worked in a variety of arts nonprofits in the Seattle area including Photographic Center Northwest, Spectrum Dance Theater, On the Boards, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Sand Point Arts & Cultural Exchange, The Empty Space, and the Bellevue Philharmonic. Dan returned to his hometown of Seattle 16 years ago from New York where he worked as a consultant to POZ Publishing and Condé Nast Publications and as executive director at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for five years. Earlier, Mayer lived in Washington, D.C. where he was the executive director of artsave, an artist rights project founded by People for the American Way, a civil liberties organization founded by Norman Lear. Mayer began his legal career in Chicago as executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a pro bono legal assistance organization for artists of all genres. During this time he was also a fellow at the Office of Policy, Planning and Research at the National Endowment for the Arts. Mayer is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Claremont McKenna College, and also studied at the London School of Economics. He has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University School of Law; in Seattle he has been a lecturer at Cornish College of the Arts, and the EDGE Artist Professional Development Program at Artist Trust. Mayer is the co-chair of the Arts Advisory Council of 4Culture and on the board of directors of Khambatta Dance Company and Coyote Central. Interim Production Manager KARLA DAVENPORT Properties Manager Stage Management Intern CHARLOTTE COOK† Directing Intern DAN SCHUY Interim Technical Director ANDERS BOLANG Master Carpenter SUZI TUCKER Carpenter CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Scenic Charge Artist TREVOR CUSHMAN Master Electrician / Light Board Operator JESSICA JONES Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator ANNA BOWEN Wardrobe Supervisor Puppets built at Thistle Theatre studios by Ben Burris and Zane Exactly. affiliations special thanks to The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT Theatre, ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, Macall Gordon, Kirk Honda, PsyD., R90 Lighting, The Red Badge Project, Roosevelt High School, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Scenic Studio / Craig Wollam, Thistle Theatre, Village Theatre encore artsseattle.com A-11 BOO K-IT’S A RTS & EDUCAT ION PROGRAM Bring Book-It to your school, library, or community venue... Actors and arts educators perform original adaptations of children’s stories in the unique Book-It Style.® A touring package includes performance, workshop, book, and study guide. ...or make it a family affair! Bring the kids to a Family Fun Day—a morning of book-themed crafts, performance, and a drama workshop. Children 12 and under: $10; Adults $12. For dates, visit book-it.org/family-fun-series. For more information or to book a tour: 206.428.6266 | BOO K-IT.O RG Thank You Merci Gracias Tack Thank you for answering your phone during our Spring Fund Drive and for making a gift to Book-It during GiveBig! There’s Still Time... to help us meet our $55,000 goal by June 30! Visit book-it.org/support or call 206.428.6202. A-12 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE Grazie honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support! Literary Legends’ Circle $75,000+ Nobel Prize Circle $1,000+ Nobel Prize Circle, cont. ArtsFund N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier Anonymous (6) Connie Anderson Emily Anthony & David Maymudes Salli & Stephen Bauer Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Patricia Britton Sally Brunette Karen Bystrom Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff Amy & Matthew Cockburn Carol & Bill Collins Nora & Allan Davis Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal The Ex Anima Fund Polly Feigl Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Mark Hamburg Liz Harris Phyllis Hatfield Signy & James Hayden Mary Frances & Harold Hill Judith Jesiolowski & David Thompson Thomas Jones Jamie & Jeremy Joseph Debbie Killinger Jacqueline Kiser Lea Knight Joyce Latino & John O’Connell Melissa & Don Manning Holly & Bill Marklyn Peter Maunsell Ellen Maxson Anne McDuffie & Tim Wood Merck Foundation Lisa Merrill Susan & Furman Moseley Joni Ostergaard & Will Patton Myra Platt & Dave Ellis Kathy & Brad Renner Paula & Stephen Reynolds Kathryn & Stephen Robinson Nathan Rodriguez Christine Sanders Martha & Donald Sands John Schaffer The Seattle Foundation Charyl & Earl Sedlik Gail & John Sehlhorst Martha Sidlo Virginia Sly Mary Snapp Spark Charitable Foundation Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Kathy & Jim Tune Ruth & Jerry Verhoff Judith Whetzel Williams Miller Family Foundation Patricia Wilson Margaret Winsor & Jay Hereford Christina Wright & Luther Black Wyman Youth Trust Literary CHampions’ Circle $25,000+ 4Culture Boeing Company Sonya & Tom Campion Matthew Clapp The Norcliffe Foundation Mary Pigott Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Shirley & David Urdal Kris & Mike Villiott producers’ circle $10,000+ City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Stuart Frank & Marty Hoiness Lucy Helm Ellen & John Hill Stellman Keehnel Margaret Kineke & Dennis West Nordstrom Lynne & Nick Reynolds The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Partners’ circle $5,000+ Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Joann Byrd Gretl Galgon Mary Metastasio Michell & Larry Pihl Anne Repass Drella & Garth Stein Leadership circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist Karen Brandvick-Baker & Ross Baker Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Carolyn & George Cox D.A. Davidson & Co. Emily Davis Caroline Feiss & Gordy Davidson Ellen & Stephen Lutz Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Cheryl & Tom Oliver Deborah Parsons Christiane Pein & Steven Bull Schwab Charitable Fund Shirley Roberson Steve Schwartzman & Daniel Karches Colleen & Brad Stangeland Deborah Swets U.S. Bank April Williamson Pulitzer Prize Circle $500+ Jennifer & Russ Banham Donna & Anthony Barnett Lenore & Dick Bensinger Elizabeth Braun Cathy & Michael Casteel Mary Chambers Dorothy & Sean Corry Pamela Cowan & Steve Miller Deborah Cowley & Mark Dexter Dottie Delaney Rebecca Dietz & Michael Drumheller Lauren Dudley Sara Elward Jane & Stanley Fields Jean Gorecki Diane Grover Laura & Erik Hanson Barbara & Randy Hieronymus Mary Horvitz Heather Howard Hughes Media Law Group Melissa Joyce Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Karen Koon Emily Krebill Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose Steve Loeb Darcy & Lee MacLaren Richard Monroe Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Andrea Niculescu Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Sandra Perala & John Platt Gloria Pfeif Judy Pigott Scott Pinckney Roberta Reaber & Leo Butzel Paula Riggert Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Rebecca Roe & T. A. Greenleaf Polly Schlitz Pamela & Nate Searle Jo & Michael Shapiro encore artsseattle.com A-13 honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support! Pulitzer Prize Circle, cont. National Book Award Circle, cont. Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont. Marcia & Peter Sill B. 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Warman /bookitrep @book_it A-16 BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE bookitrep Book-It Director Global Corporate Citzenship, NW Region, The Boeing Company SPIRITED DISCUSSION America’s Vice-filled Past Comes to MOHAI “Did you know that a woman wasn’t allowed to sit alone at a bar in Washington State until 1967?” I’m speaking with Lorraine McConaghy, public historian for the Museum of History & Industry, and we’re discussing Washington’s restrictive Blue Laws, overturned in 1966. McConaghy has been doing exhaustive research on them as she creates 21st Century Speakeasy, a locally focused exhibit running alongside the nationally touring American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which opened at MOHAI on April 2. (Speakeasy opens in June.) Together, the two exhibits will tell a Seattle story within a national context, shedding light on Prohibition as well as the changing attitudes toward vice over time. American Spirits spans the early-1800s temperance movement through the 1920s to the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. “In so many ways it’s a Seattle story,” says MOHAI executive director Leonard Garfield. “There’s quite a bit of history in our community—because of our proximity to Canada for one thing and our location on the water, but also because Washington has been a place, historically, that was always one step ahead of the country in terms of reform and changes in laws.” Washington State passed an initiative banning alcohol four years before the federal law took effect in 1920. American Spirits, created by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, is making its West Coast debut at MOHAI, which contributed an interactive exhibit in which you pilot a police boat to chase rumrunners through Puget Sound. Interactive, elements like this—you can also learn to dance the Charleston—join more than 100 rare artifacts, like ratification copies of the 18th and 21st Amendments and equipment used for making moonshine. Supplemental programming connects to Seattle’s booming alcohol scene today, pairing craft booze, beer, wine and cider with historical context. 21st Century Speakeasy focuses on three subjects in Washington State history—alcohol, gambling and marijuana—from Washington Territory days through 2012 when Washington voters passed initiatives to legalize marijuana and privatize the sale of alcohol. Both exhibits explore the unintended consequences of Prohibition, good and bad. “There were strands in the Prohibition movement that were instead looking for ways to penalize or disadvantage the immigrant community, who tended to come from countries where alcohol was a social norm,” Garfield says. On the good side, Prohibition leveraged significant social progress. When it took effect, Garfield says, ordinary people were suddenly outlaws, a reality that made them much more receptive to counterculture—ultimately fueling explosive change in the 1920s. Says Garfield, “We ended Prohibition with a society that was much more liberal, had much greater roles for women, and new forms of music and art.” GEMMA WILSON M OV E R E STO RE REFLECT B RE AT H E YO G A YOGA CENTERS NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR THE MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS! Nominations open May 1 – 31 at seattle.gov/arts Save the Date for the Mayor’s Arts Awards Friday, September 4, 4pm Categor i es: Fu tu re Focu s C ul tu r al Amb assad or Ar ts & I n n ov ati on C ul tu r al Preser v ati on Presented by Sponsored by Captivated Readers Sophisticated Consumers Advertise in image: Brittney Bollay Courtesy of American Conservatory Theater. © Kevin Berne ENCORE ARTS NEWS Performing for you 800.308.2898 x105 05 om [email protected] encore art sseattle.com 9 ENCORE ARTS NEWS Inside Café Nordo’s brand-new kitchen facility beneath their brand-new theatre in Pioneer Square, actors Ryan Higgins (as Don Nordo), Maximillian Davis (Sancho) and Opal Peachey (Food Writer) pour on the charm. Don Nordo del Midwest will be the first production in the space, dubbed the Culinarium. PHOTO BY BRUCE CLAYTON TOM 10 ENCORE STAGES from city arts magazine the Legend of Café Nordo Seattle’s experimental dinner theatre settles in but doesn’t settle down. by JONATHAN ZWICKEL T HE SIXTH ACT OF DON NORDO DEL MIDWEST, the new production by experimental dinner theatre company Café Nordo, brings up a quintessentially Nordoesque conundrum: What the heck is this stuff we’re drinking? According to the storyline, Don Nordo and his sidekick Sancho are treated to homemade hooch “micro-distilled” in a junkyard carburetor by an insane-genius chef. At this point in the show, a cadre of jocular hobos will enter the theatre/dining room, bottles in hand, circulating among the tables where the audience/diners are seated. Into their awaiting wine glasses they’ll pour what appears to be the same bootlegged liquor as our heroes are drinking. encore art sseattle.com 11 ENCORE ARTS NEWS not coincidentally a riff on Don Quixote. The menu: “Midwestern tapas.” More significantly, Don Nordo del Midwest is the first production to be staged in Café Nordo’s new, permanent location. Dubbed the Culinarium, the 4,000-square-foot space occupies part of the former Elliott Bay Books in Pioneer Square. It’s the first theatre to open in the neighborhood since the Pioneer Square Theater closed in 1989 and it sets a precedent for Café Nordo. For its first five years, the company was itinerant, staging productions at different spaces around the city—the warehouse of Theo Chocolate, West of Lenin, Theatre Off Jackson. None of these places had a full-time kitchen. With each new show, Café Nordo attempted a molecular-gastronomic Teatro ZinZanni with a pop-up budget. All along, a permanent space was calling. As we sit in the high-ceilinged, brickwalled Culinarium, occasionally flinching to the cacophony of heavy construction in the unfinished space, Brindley and Podgorski tell me how they found their home. Two years ago, looking for a location for their new production, the pair met with Karen True, director of business development In Nordo’s immersive brand of dinner theatre, food and drink isn’t simply for eating and drinking. It’s for character. for the Alliance for Pioneer Square. She showed them several spaces around the neighborhood; they eventually settled on a private dining space run by the owners of Delicatus. There they put on a show called “Smoked!” to tremendous response. “We were doing this spaghetti western, and the space has a saloon vibe,” Brindley says. “First time we had an on-site kitchen. It was perfect. So we did the show there and the response from the neighborhood was amazing.” “We ran at like 99 percent capacity,” Podgorski says. “It was a lot of neighborhood people,” are so excited for art and interesting things to come down here. We fell in love with the neighborhood.” A few months later, Nordo took over Washington Hall for a show that featured a poultry course prepped at a commissary kitchen on the other side of I-5, hauled to the Hall and served out of a coffin. True attended and brought with her Ilze Jones, owner of the Elliott Bay Books building. “She came to the show, ate the chicken that crossed the road, had lots of wine,” Brindley says. “We went up to her afterwards Café Nordo company regular Carter Rodriquez was part of Let the Dinner Games Begin at 2013’s Lo-Fi Festival at Smoke Farm. BRUCE CLAYTON TOM This fiction throws off the audience from an important fact. “It’s actually really good sherry,” says playwright Terry Podgorski. “Nice amontillado from Spain.” Overseeing a full-cast rehearsal in the Bullitt Cabaret below ACT theatre one Tuesday night in early February, Podgorski and director Erin Brindley agree to defer the question of how to present the sherry. Don Nordo del Midwest is more than a month from opening and, as experience has taught them, this detail will make its solution known in time. Right now they’re more focused on another scene, one that culminates in a brawl straight out of The Three Stooges. With nine actors playing attendees of the Southwest Convention of Servers, punches fly, nipples are twisted, serving trays are thrown and Don Nordo suffers a giant kick in the nuts. The scene—the fourth out of 20—requires meticulous fight choreography; tonight they run through at half-speed for more than an hour. Café Nordo exists in an uncanny valley of gastronomic disbelief. Not just in Don Nordo del Midwest, which is currently scheduled to open this spring, but in each of the productions they’ve put on over the last five years. In Nordo’s immersive brand of dinner theatre, food and drink isn’t simply for eating and drinking. It’s for character. Sherry as moonshine. Squid-ink custard as primordial ooze. Mashed potatoes and gravy as donut and coffee. The dinner plate as a tiny stage. You eat the performance, multiple courses per show. Of course you also watch the performance, typically by a cast of a dozen or so veterans of Seattle’s theatre, comedy and dance scenes. Podgorski’s Nordo plays tend toward absurdist musical edutainment, setting up stories that involve the history, legend and social context around a particular type of food or food trend. The post-WWII development of pre-packaged foods, for instance, or the history of the restaurant, or the dangers—and benefits—of factory farming. And there’s live music, singing and dancing—provided by your servers. Don Nordo del Midwest details Chef Nordo Lefesczki’s origin story, which mirrors Café Nordo’s real-life mission: Both are intent on exploring the intersection of food and art. The company’s namesake is a mystery, possibly a fabrication, based on airline-pilot jargon for a plane flying with no radio. As such, Nordo is a cypher for the complicated nature of Café Nordo itself: He’s a mad gourmet championing real food prepared imaginatively, presented in a fictional context with factual basis. More than any other Café Nordo play, this one is self-reflective, self-mythologizing. It is from city arts magazine ENCORE ARTS NEWS and she was like, ‘You belong in my building. Let’s start talking.’” Brindley and Podgorski had met years earlier working with the now-defunct Circus Contraption, one of Seattle’s most well-loved circus-arts groups, where Podgorski was technical director and Brindley managing director. Contraption’s final shows took place at the Theo Warehouse, so the space transitioned easily to accommodate their first foray as Café Nordo. The pair collaborated on the general storyline—it was called The Modern American Chicken—and then Podgorski wrote the script and Brindley prepared the menu. One show led to another: Sauced traced the history of the cocktail; Bounty! was an evolutionary ode to seafood that began with the earth cooling and oceans forming. Nordo piqued media interest and earned a loyal audience. After a few years, they believed they could sustain a year-round lease. They were working as a nonprofit with a minimal budget, a small board of directors and a loyal team of actors and volunteers. Then Jones came knocking with the keys to the building. “We’d been growing our board that whole time, collecting people that we knew would donate when the time came,” Podgorski says. (He himself was growing his skills in technical directing with Degenerate Art Ensemble and Washington Ensemble Theatre.) Several new board members, including current president John Tynes, work at Microsoft, which matches donations made by employees to nonprofits. Through individual donations, matching funds and ticket-subscription sales, Nordo has collectively raised almost $290,000 in less than a year. That sum covers technical additions to the space—light grid, sound gear, electrical and plumbing improvements. It pays for Podgorski and Brindley to go full-time so they don’t have to work other jobs. And, along with a significant investment from Jones, it pays for the brand-new kitchen downstairs. What will open in April is a fully equipped theatre space with an adjoining professional kitchen—walk-in fridge, commercial-grade gas stove, ovens, prep stations, and room for a half-dozen cooks and servers. Two-thousandsquare-feet upstairs, 2,000-square feet downstairs. During the eight months out of the year when Nordo isn’t running one of their own productions in the Culinarium, Brindley and Podgorski will open it to what they’re calling “interstitial programming.” They imagine hosting podcast recordings with celebrity chefs, curated food-and-movie nights, neighborhood cooking classes and salon-style conversations pairing luminaries in art, politics or science with accomplished bartenders. from city arts magazine “Think TED Talks with alcohol,” Podgorski says. “We’ve never had the sandbox that we always wanted to play in,” Brindley says. As Nordo’s menu designer and head cook, Brindley is looking forward to cooking less and designing more. “But I’m sure I’ll still be in the kitchen, especially now that it’s mine.” At first I’m surprised to learn that Brindley is almost entirely self-taught. She says she worked in her mom’s bakery growing up and learned by osmosis while living in New York with a boyfriend who cooked at some of New York’s most celebrated restaurants. But then again, her Nordo creations barely adhere to the dogma of “good taste” instilled by restaurant cooking. Her food is based equally in creative concept and flavor, a daring sort of stunt-cuisine that works not only because it tastes good but because Nordo is as much a theatre experience as a dining one. “Our tongue is firmly planted in our cheek most of the time,” Brindley says. “We take ourselves less seriously than anyone thinks we do. I was doing serious, avant-garde theatre in New York, which no one ever came to. Then I started working at Circus Contraption and seeing people leave with this beautiful sense of joy. It became clear that giving people something they enjoy is better than giving them something to figure out.” Which is not to say Café Nordo is easy to digest. Especially Don Nordo del Midwest—at nine small courses, it’s Nordo’s most complex menu yet. Along with carburetor sherry, expect pigs-in-a-blanket made with housemade chorizo, “Chicken McCroqeuttes” served in a fast-food takeout box and “Bacalao Tater Tots” served family-style and unraveled from a hobo’s bindle. Podgorski describes how the stage will be set for the show but, because it’s rather unusual, asks that I don’t divulge too much. Suffice it to say the room won’t look like a restaurant or a theatre but rather a big, dark, blank canvas beckoning interaction between guests. “It’s going to challenge people,” Podgorski says. “We want people to know that when they come to our shows they’re not going to be spoon-fed.” “I think it’s going to turn out really beautifully,” Brindley says, “but people are going to be like…” “‘Where’s my chair? Where do I sit? Can I sit with my friends?’” “‘Is it going to be like this the whole time? How will the servers know I’m gluten free?’” “It’s all these things that people get really uptight about with their dinner experience,” Podgorski says. “We just want to tell them, ‘It’s fun, let go. Trust us, it’s going to be awesome. Here’s a glass of wine.’” n THE SEATTLE GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY’S JULY 10-12, 17-19, 24-25 TICKET SALES BEGIN JUNE 2 nd: 800.838.3006 or brownpapertickets.com WWW.PATTERSONG.ORG FRESH HANDMADE TORTILLAS SMOKED MEATS CHARRED VEGGIES PERFECT MARGARITAS AND TAQUITO HAPPY HOUR! Cantina Leña is a bright new spot in downtown Seattle to grab the perfect plate of addictive food with a scratch margarita or a cold Mexican beer! HOURS OF OPERATION Mon-Fri 11am-11pm Sat & Sun 9am-11pm happy hour during the week from 3-6pm and weekend brunch 9am-3pm (206)519.5723 2105 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 www.cantinalena.com ENCORE ARTS NEWS HIT MACHINE Beat Connection counters pop perfection with incisive intellect. BY JONATHAN ZWICKEL I heard the best new music of 2015 inside a rundown former roadside motel not far from the Space Needle. The members of Beat Connection had invited me to preview their second album as a one-time, in-person deal—listen all the way through and then wait until it’s officially released this summer. They bring me to their rehearsal space, a spacious and surprisingly well-appointed room in a graffitied complex abutting Highway 99 near Seattle Center. I sit in an office chair while Reed Juenger, Beat Connection’s primary creative force, cues up his Macbook, which is hooked into a pair of powerful studio monitors, and hits play. Forty-some minutes of euphoria: swirling and breezy, casually upbeat, meticulously balanced between dense arrangement and loose composition, strong vocals shifting from somber soul to keening cry. Au courant but original, dance-floor propulsive but friendly. As ambitious as any indie-electro on KEXP, as accessible as any Top 40 on KISS 106.1, and apropos of both. There’s no Seattle touchstone for this stuff. Instead Mark Ronson—voracious student of music, skilled stylistic dilettante and bona-fide hitmaker—comes to mind. “This is really smart, fun pop music,” I say. “I don’t have any interest in being involved in anything mediocre.” “That’s what we were going for,” Juenger replies. “Glad we pulled it off.” He speaks with a solemn face and the inflection of a newsreader. This is his de-facto expression, that of a serious young professional, recently graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in digital art and experimental media, aware of his own intelligence, unafraid to expose it, committed to a rigorous approach to a playful pastime. Perfecting pop music is a quixotic mission. Juenger is well-suited for it. “I don’t have any interest in being involved in anything mediocre,” he says before the listening session, as Juenger, drummer Jarred Katz, bassist Mark Hunter and singer Tom Eddy sit around a tiny table at Caffe Vita in Queen Anne. “That’s maybe a ridiculous thing to say, but I’m not gonna f-- with it if it’s not gonna be the best it can be. So that’s why it’s taken us so long and why it was so life-or-death and why we had to be so committed to it.” Beat Connection has endured a slew of lineup changes since it began five years ago with Juenger and a friend no longer in the band. It weathered the chillwave trend, come and gone over the course of 2009, and its association with beachy vibes and dreamy nostalgia. The band members have slogged away at day jobs to ensure themselves time to write, rehearse, record and tour. Modest sacrifices, yes, but also hard work in service to a project with genuine mainstream potential. Eddy’s expanded role, from guest vocalist to full-time member, was the tipping point. With him on board the band moved on from introspective electronica toward extroverted dance-pop. They continue to walk that line, which is part of their appeal. “I get a little self-conscious when I get in the moment and, like, try to be the rock guy, which I think is an important attribute to have AVI LOUD From left to right: Jarred Katz, Tom Eddy, Reed Juenger and Mark Hunter in a live group because it resonates with people when you’re that dude,” Eddy says. “But we’re aware that our music comes from a place which does not require that sort of hero figure. It’s more of a collective-type situation.” For his part, Eddy is a compelling frontman whose fashion-model cheekbones and square jaw belie real-deal pipes and witty, observant lyricism—an all-American Chris Martin, maybe, without the pretension. Where Ronson and other producer-auteurs cast their rock star lead singers on a song-by-song basis, Beat Connection’s is in-house. Katz came on board around the same time as Eddy, after the three of them had been living together in a house in the University District. Hunter, a friend of Katz’s from the UW jazz studies program who officially joined last year, was the final puzzle piece. Since then, Beat Connection has released three impeccable singles, starting with the sinuous, funky “Hesitation” last May, which was easily one of the best songs of the year. All three are on the upcoming album, Product 3. The business-savvy Juenger refuses to divulge the LA-based indie label it’s coming out on, or a specific date (“July. Maybe August.”) until the ink on the contracts is dry. “I remember feeling a stigma against ambition when we started out,” Juenger says. “It was like, ‘Oh yeah, we just started a band and that’s what’s happening’,” he says in a blasé affect. “But now we couldn’t be further away from unambitious.” Juenger’s purposefulness extends to the album artwork and promo materials that he designs with sleek, urban-sophisticate imagery and photography. And it extends to the stark philosophy lurking behind the music’s gleaming pop exterior. “We call it Industrial Condo Sadness,” he says. “It has to do with those nice, well-lit condos that are probably pretty tight. But there’s a price you pay to be in them that involves working at Amazon or, I don’t know, denying other people access to basic human rights so that you can have a nice condo.” It’s a devastating duality reflective of Seattle in its current moment of transition. Eddy’s lyrics on the new album, love songs hung up on the technology-induced gap between perception and reality, take on the same depth. But will a mainstream pop audience get it? “I don’t think you’re supposed to,” Juenger says. “You’re supposed to casually be in the nice apartment and be like, ‘Look at this Ikea furniture! We have a really nice fluffy dog! This is tight!’” “Pop music is the blinder in front of your eyes in a lot of ways,” he continues. “But we think about those things. And honestly, that’s not something you should be satirical about. It’s like, how do we deal with these realizations as people who make pop music, and find joy in it, and find that it’s something people want to hear? How can we bring a little bit of awareness to that? Pop music, that’s a good start. And we need to set ourselves up to do more.” l ENCORE ARTS NEWS from city arts magazine STAY AWHILE Airbnb as Art Installation Interactions with objects are fleeting at a gallery or museum, so a pair of artists have tapped into a more lasting way to experience art: Airbnb. Right now, a cozy, brightly lit ground-floor unit in an Eastlake apartment building is filled with art to be experienced at your leisure, overnight or over a string of days. Rob Rhee and Dawn Cerny conceived of the idea late last year. They and a small group of fellow artists had started a book club (wryly dubbed “Poker Night”) that led to discussion about the intersection of everyday domesticity and art. “We wanted to exhibit more,” Rhee says. “We considered opening our own space but didn’t have the money for it. We realized we all do have spaces—we just happen to live in them.” At first Cerny curated an art show in her Beacon Hill Craftsman home, photographed it and created an Airbnb profile for the space but didn’t receive guests. The conceptual exhibit lived online. “Photographs of homes on Airbnb.com double as exhibitions where art is used as a prop or decorative cue, showing what life might be like in that space,” she says. Then Rhee jumped at an opportunity to take over a friend’s unused apartment in Eastlake, curating the exhibit Xenia (a Greek term for hospitality that literally translates as “guest-friendship”), open for public booking. Xenia includes works by 15 artists from Seattle, Portland, New York and elsewhere. Rhee’s arrangement of the apartment gently demands interaction, riding a fine line between functional domestic space and formal group show. Guests are given a list of the artworks with instructions for handling. Instead of a couch, a large, square, raised platform fills the living room. Cushions are The living room in the Eastlake apartment where Xenia is installed provided to lounge on, as well as a variety of small tables constructed by artists and topped with objects. “It’s important that the apartment not be furnished in a typical way,” Rhee says. “Instead, it asks you to be aware of your body.” For example, the plates and mugs of Natalie Riha’s “Dishware” are the only items in the cabinets—handmade with fragile gray clay, fired but unglazed. “Use it as you would dishware in your daily life,” the artwork guide instructs. “Don’t be worried if it stains. It is meant to stain with each use as an index of this experience.” Barely visible are faint traces of coffee stains left by past guests. The minimal bedroom is outfitted with a queen-size bed piled with pillows and a top-stitched, cream-colored quilt. A sheet of paper—a simple oil painting of an ear by Shaw Osha—hangs above the headboard, suggesting that this space is intended for close listening. Three pairs of headphones made by Jamie Hilder are mounted on the wall next to the bed, their earpads replaced by seashells. When you put them on, you hear the ocean roar. Xenia is available for booking through May for $100 per night (https://www. airbnb.com/rooms/5307747). So far a handful of people have rented the space. After Xenia closes, Rhee and his fellow artists will continue to pursue different twists on the idea. “It’s my dream that people know that when you come to Seattle, one of the things you do is stay at one of these places and have these experiences,” Rhee says. “That this is part of the art scene: long-term, super-intimate, unique experiences you get to have with art.” AMANDA MANITACH AIRBNB: ROB RHEE from city arts magazine July 30 – August 02, 2015 at CenturyLink Field Event Center seattleartfair.com seattleartfair.com