Azeotrope Presents RED LIGHT WINTER, Opens 10/22

AZEOTROPE, a new Seattle?based theatre artist consortium, announces its company debut with the Northwest premiere production of Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp, directed by Azeotrope artistic associate Desdemona Chiang.

Red Light Winter opens Friday, October 22 and is produced in association with Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle. In Red Light Winter, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves entangled in a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful, young prostitute named Christina. The romance they find in Europe unravels their friendship back home, and all three are forced to confront unexpected consequences resulting from their one night together. Written with a harsh, poetic beauty, Red Light Winter is a stunning story of obsession, isolation, and the desperate need for people to fulfill their hunger for intimacy.

The New York Times praised Rapp for "exploring a wider range of human emotion and writing with a new sensitivity to match his natural gift for crackling, hyperarticulate dialogue... a frank, graphic story of erotic fixation and the havoc it can wreak on sensitive souls." The Chicago Tribune called Red Light Winter an "arresting study in melancholic triangulation and obsessions dashed... [and] shrewd about the way certain male friendships exist on the knife edge of disaster." "Red Light Winter is the ideal play to launch Azeotrope into the Seattle theatre forum," says Chiang. "This is a production that is going to be sexy, raw, and provocative. The play is relentless. And it cuts deep. And, in many ways, I think that's what Azeotrope is also setting out to do. It's about breaking boundaries, making waves, and having the courage to venture into unknown territory." "One of Azeotrope's key intents is to do work that goes outside what we find comfortable??finding the courage to go beyond, into realms in which we feel inept or even implausible to contend with," says Sloniker. "Wherever there is dissimilarity, there is tension. There is discomfort. Or violence. Our work will move toward that which we fear. The private. The perverse. The dangerous." 

Red Light Winter features performances by Richard Nguyen Sloniker, Tim Gouran and newcomer Mariel Neto. Scenic design by Andrea Bush. Lighting design by Andrew D. Smith. Costume design by Christine Tschirgi.

ABOUT AZEOTROPE: Newly founded by Seattle actor Richard Nguyen Sloniker, Azeotrope's mission is to create a space where audiences confront the marginalized and obscured, bringing visibility to the invisible. We hope to broaden Seattle's cultural and artistic environment with vital, urgent, and exciting projects that would otherwise be underrepresented.

For more information, please visit www.azotheatre.org.

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