Annex Theatre Presents A Double-Double of Canada's Best Fringe Festival Acts

Annex Theatre serves up a double-double of piping hot Canadian fringe festival acts with BaronSpieler's The Excursionists: A Matter of Seconds double-billed with Martin Dockery's Wanderlust Sept 23rd-25th and double-billed with Monster Theatre's Freud vs. His Ego Sept 30th-Oct 2nd. The Excursionists: A Matter of Seconds opens Thursday September 23rd, 8pm and runs Thur-Sat through October 2nd, 8pm at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & East Pike Street in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military. Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com.

THE EXCURSIONISTS: A MATTER OF SECONDS
Written & Performed by Jonah Von Spreecken and Christopher Bange
Sept 23rd-Oct 2nd

Jonah Von Spreecken and Christopher Bange have just returned from the Canadian Fringe circuit to perform their most recent creation, The Excursionists: A Matter of Seconds, a follow up to their 2006 show, The Excursionists: An Aristocratic Adventure. The Excursionists is a sort of Jules Verne/Monty Python hybrid of two gentleman explorers that embraces the steam-punk sub-genre of science fiction and also could be described as a send up of 1950s and 1960s adventure movies.

Two English Gentlemen circa 1884, Professor Goggins and Lord Necksycracksy set out through the aether of time in order to deliver an important message to one of history's greatest kings. As fate would have it, traveling through the chasms of time comes with its own consequences. An adventure ensues full of puppetry, sword-fighting, decapitations and a good dose of pomp and perplexity.

"Like some manic Victorian video game" - Edmonton Sun

"a most sharply absurd, occasionally meta and successfully highly stylized work of comedy" - Vue Weekly

"It's Jules Verne hanging out with Terry Gilliam, on a bender and buying a drink for Dr. Who." - Edmonton Journal

WANDERLUST
Written & Performed by Martin Dockery
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
Sept 23rd-25th

After a decade of temping-both at work and in relationships-a man embarks on a solo trip deep into Africa, trekking from the Atlantic to the Sahara. There he demands an Epiphany. Any Epiphany. Some proof that though we're temporary, we're more than mere temps. A hilarious true tale.

Working with director Jean-Michele Gregory (The Last Cargo Cult and How Theater Failed America by Mike Daisey), Dockery has toured throughout 2009 & 2010, bringing his unique, energetic, and autobiographical stories to sold-out houses in Orlando, London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, San Francisco, and his hometown New York. Seattle marks the final stop on what has been a fantastic five-month, non-stop performance tour.

www.martindockery.com

FREUD VS. HIS EGO
Written by Ryan Gladstone
Performed by Bruce Horak & Ryan Gladstone
Original Score by Drew Jurecka
Sept 30th-Oct 2nd

Freud Vs. His Ego is a comic, high energy trip inside the mind of Sigmund Freud! Its break- neck pace coupled with sound effects, slapstick, clever word play and cracked logic will have you in hysterics!

"Dirty, funny, educational, well-acted, well-written, smart and silly all at the same time!" - Edmonton Sun

www.monstertheatre.com

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness and risk.

In addition to new plays, Annex Theatre produces radical reinterpretations of classic scripts, ensemble-generated performances and non-linear wild-ass spectacles. Also kicking off the first Friday of every month is our late-night variety show Spin the Bottle, now entering its 13th year!

Now in its new Capitol Hill venue, Annex originally opened its doors in 1987 in a former dance studio on 4th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Since then the theater has produced hundreds of world and Northwest premieres, including new plays by Stranger Genius Award winners Chris Jeffries and Paul Mullin; dozens of local playwrights, including Jeff Resta, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Keri Healey, Scot Augustson, John Kaufmann, Elizabeth Heffron, Heidi Heimarck, and Suzanne Maynard; and nationally recognized playwrights such as Erik Ehn, Naomi Iizuka, GLen berger, Anne Washburn, Jeffrey Jones, and Nicky Silver.

Former Annex company members alumni can be found throughout the Seattle arts community including Seattle Children's Theatre Teaching Artist Gillian Jorgensen, former Artistic Director of the Empty Space Allison Narver, Executive Director of Town Hall Weir Harman, Development Director of ACT Josef Krebs and Education Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre Andrea Allen as well as in the local and national film industry such as directors SJ Chiro, Garrett Bennett, Mike Shapiro and actors Jillian Armenante and Paul Giamatti.