Seattle Confidential: The Perfect Crime Plays ACT Theatre 5/9

Involve and engage your audience on an immediate, intimate and individual level -and then reveal what binds us together as a whole! That's what Seattle Confidential is all about. This four part series presents the life stories and personal opinions of the audience, on stage for all to see! And by incorporating state-of-the-art real-time cell phone polling technology, the audience gets to vote for what they want to see next. After a highly successful sold out February launch, Virginity Lost, the provocative quarterly series from Ian Bell and ACT's Central Heating Lab continues on May 9, 2011 to explore the socially subversive side of Seattle with, The Perfect Crime.

Seattle Confidential is part interactive social experiment, part voyeuristic theatre event. Seattle Confidential's creator and host Ian Bell presents a new theme each quarter, then invites the city to anonymously share their personal stories and fill out content surveys based on that theme. By show time, a curated selection of the best written submissions, read by Seattle's finest actors, is prepared. And during the evening event, anonymous survey data is graphed and analyzed by statistician Ross Whippo.

Audiences can get involved by visiting www.SeattleConfidential.org where they will find submission guidelines, online anonymous submission forms, and anonymous surveys. Seattle can also take the anonymous survey and submit their writing in person at one of five drop boxes placed around town:
n Capitol Hill Drop Box@ Bauhaus Books & Coffee, 301 E. Pine;
n Downtown Drop Box @ ACT Theatre Box Office Lobby, 700 Union St;
n U-District Drop Box @ Sure Shot Espresso, 4505 University Way NE;
n Belltown Drop Box@ Bedlam Coffee, 2231 2nd Ave;
n Georgetown Drop Box @ All City Coffee, 1205 S. Vale St.

The theme for the May 9th , 2011 Seattle Confidential Event is The Perfect Crime. Submissions must be received by April 25th 2011.
Seattle Confidential's mission is reveal who we really are as a community by examining, through both art and science, our individual life experience, darkest secrets, and deepest thoughts. Seattle Confidential is a series that engages Seattle's unique, curious and intelligent audience in a new way. The result is "Event Theatre" that is local, interactive, and personal. Seattle Confidential welcomes its audience to invest in the creative process fearlessly, frankly, and in a forthcoming fashion; with the potential to bridge our community by turning personal experience into shared understanding.
New themes and a new list of actors will be announced for the August 8 and November 14, 2011 events. Tickets are on sale now through ACT Theatre at acttheatre.org or (206) 292-7676.

About Ian Bell
Ian Bell created The Brown Derby Series at Re-bar (now in its 12th season) and co-created the Neither/Nor series at (the sadly now defunct) Consolidated Works. Bell's 10 years as Artistic Director of theatre group Bald Faced Lie yielded over 30 original shows for multiple local theaters, several tours around the U.S. and across Canada, and regular appearances on NPR. Bell served as both a Board Member and Managing Director of SketchFest Seattle (consecutively, not concurrently) between 2002 and 2006. Bell was Producing Director for Re-bar from 2005-2009 debuting and fostering the earliest work by artists such as AWESOME, The Love Markets, Mark Siano, Day In Dig Nation, and The French Project (many of which have gone on to perform at ACT's Central Heating Lab, and On The Boards). He is also a professional actor, and has worked at Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, ACT Theatre and the Seattle Repertory as a union performer and at nearly every fringe theatre in town when he was non-union. Bell has appeared in several local-made, feature-length films including "Grass Roots", "A Relative Thing" and "Mulletville". In addition to contributing writing, he was also a performer on the ill-fated local TV show "The John Report with Bob" on KIRO Channel 7, a regular cast member of nationally syndicated "The Eyes of Nye "(with Bill Nye) on PBS stations, and on the nationally broadcast radio show "ReWind with Bill Radke" on NPR.

About ACT: A Theatre of New Ideas - Raising Consciousness Through Theatre
Located in the heart of downtown Seattle and serving a population of curious, open-minded, and brave audiences, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre is the only theatre in Seattle dedicated to producing contemporary work with promising playwrights and local performing artists since 1965. A theatre of new ideas, ACT serves as a cultural engine that makes plays, dance, music, and film that touch us. Because contemporary life demands examination, ACT is driven to inspire and strengthen our diverse community through works that advance our understanding of human life. With more than 100,000 people who attend shows annually, ACT is an interactive community where artists and the public witness, contemplate, and engage in dialogue on today's thought-provoking issues, ideas and art, presented with intelligence, insight, and humor.

Tickets:
$15 ($10 students/seniors), or included with the ACTPass

ACT Theatre
Ticket Office: (206) 292-7676
700 Union Street, Seattle WA 98101
www.acttheatre.org

 

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