The Rogues Gallery's Cthulhu Comedy SHOGGOTHS ON THE VELDT Begins Tonight

The Rogues Gallery, a Geek Theater Company, presents SHOGGOTHS ON THE VELDT, a CTHULHU adventure comedy by Cameron McNary, directed by Daniel Wood. The production runs at Inscape Arts tonight, November 13 - December 5, 2015.

When famed Victorian explorer Melford Pumbleshire is torn to pieces by something horrible and unseen while on safari in Deepest, Darkest Africa, his redoubtable fiance Euphonia Riggstone must lead an expedition to put his unquiet spirit to rest. In this globe trotting thriller romance, betrayal, and a two-fisted adventure ensue as Euphonia must deal with perfidious cultists, an amnesiac ghost, ancient horrors and... the Shoggoths on the Veldt!

In the cast are: Jennifer Crooks, Cody Smith, Meredith Armstrong, Curtis Eastwood, and Cole Hornaday.

On the crew are: Jordan Johansen (Stage Manager), Julia Evanovich (Costume and Tentacle Designer), Zanna Paulson (Lighting Designer), and Amanda Pitsch (Set, Props and Projection Designer).

Inscape Arts is located at 815 Seattle Blvd S, Seattle, WA 98134. Performances play Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 8:00pm from Nov. 13 - Dec. 5. Pay What You Can performance Monday, Nov. 30 at 8:00pm. Tickets available at: shoggoths.brownpapertickets.com.

The Rogues Gallery is committed to producing professional theater of the highest quality, infusing our plays with inventive and imaginative staging and telling stories of unabashed geekery with the fun, respect and love they deserve.

The spark of the idea for The Rogues Gallery was born on a Friday night at PAX Prime 2010 in front of an audience of 550 faithful geeks during an enthusiastic standing ovation of Cameron McNary's play "Of Dice and Men," a funny and poignant play about a group of 30-something Dungeons and Dragons players. It was the warmest, most enthusiastic audience we've performed for, an audience whose story (our story) was finally being told. The love in the room that night was palpable and we've been chasing that ever since.

It was there we realized that there was a huge audience out there waiting to share these geeky interests with us, anxious for their stories to be told on stage. Stories about swords and sorcery and dragons; blasters and space ships and aliens; superheroes, their arch-villains and comic books; stories about under worlds and Outer Gods; Dugeons & Dragons and the World of Warcraft; steampunk and cyberpunk; anime and cosplay; tabletop and video games; stories about the geeks who love all of these things and the people who love them.

These are the stories no other theater wants to tell. Until now. So now we have our own pirate ship. Here we are, a merry band of rogues, raising the Jolly Roger and setting sail and, like Captain Mal Reynolds of the Firefly class starship Serenity, We aim to misbehave.

Photo Credit: Kimberly Lynn Loomis

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