Sacrifices, Tupperware, and Go-Go Dancing Knife Fights in LAST STOP ON LILAC

Annex Theatre closes its dynamic 30th season with Last Stop on Lilac, a gory, glamorous black comedy written by Kelleen Conway Blanchard and directed by Keira McDonald.

Sweet-faced Bunny Le Blanc (Kenna Kettrick) brought her bright lights to 1960s Hollywood, a technicolor land of fever dreams, and now she's dead. Last seen on luxurious Lilac Lane, home to glamorous stars and faded legends, someone on this street murdered Bunny, but who? The sexy starlet? The martini-soaked prima donna? The swinging bachelors in the pink bungalow? Something deadly happened on Lilac Lane. Something secret, involving sacrifices, Tupperware, and Go-Go dancing knife fights.

Kelleen Conway Blanchard (Blood Countess, The Underneath, Kittens in a Cage, Small Town) twists a story about secrets, and humanity's petty, awful need for more and more. Her work has appeared at many local theaters including Annex, Seattle Immersive, Macha Monkey Productions (now Macha TheatreWorks) and Pony World. She is a four-time Gregory Award nominee. Under the direction of Keira McDonald, this classy black-comedy will get you thinking about overindulgence and greed.

I wanted to write something deep and meaningful but then I remembered I'm me and wrote something ridiculous and bloody. Last Stop on Lilac is about secrets and the masks we wear and our petty awful need for more and more (and it's also about gogo boots and big hair). I think it's important to still remember that all of these evil people running the world and taking up our screens are buffoons. Clowns. We should laugh at them. They hate that. We should still get to laugh. And wear amazing clothes and live our damn lives." - Kelleen Conway Blanchard

Last Stop on Lilac runs October 20 through November 11, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Preview on Thursday, October 19. PWYC Industry night on Monday, October 30. $10-$20 Sliding Scale Tickets. All performances are at 7:30 pm at Annex Theatre at the corner of 11th & Pike in Capitol Hill. Tickets at annextheatre.org.

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