Sound Theatre Company Announces 2019 Season - CITIZEN, PEELING, and More!

Sound Theatre Company, the three-time Theatre of the Year Gregory Award winning theatre company, announces their 2019 Season focusing on a theme of Erasure. Sound Theatre continues to prioritize the diversity of the human experience, and this season, titled UN-ERASABLE: From the Eyes of the Watched, is no exception. Two groundbreaking, Seattle premiere productions and a year-long reading series bring attention to the untold stories of our community. This July at the Center Theatre at the Armory, CITIZEN: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine will take stage, followed in August by as U.S. Premiere of PEELING by Kaite O'Reilly. A year-long reading series of plays by Native and Indigenous Playwrights centers our Making Waves program of experimental and new works.

Sound Theatre shines a spotlight on erasure and the "Hypervisible Invisibility" of difference. Theatre is uniquely suited to share the perspectives of people who are "watched" - for their perceived differences, but not "seen" for their inherent humanity.

$5 Ticket Promotion & Accessible Performances

Sound Theatre will continue last year's Radical Hospitality with an early-bird "$5 On It" ticket promotion. Sound Theatre endeavors to expand their accessibility and ability-inclusive practices such as ASL Interpretation, CART/Open Captioning, Braille transcription, large print materials, audio description, Sensory Friendly performances, tactile tours, and front row flexible seating to accommodate patrons who may have mobility-related concerns or use wheelchairs and mobility devices.

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
Co-Production with The Hansberry Project
Directed by Jay O'Leary
July 11 - 28, Center Theatre | Seattle Premiere

Drawn directly from the award-winning book by poet Claudia Rankine, CITIZEN: An American Lyric is a searing, multi-media poetic riff on race in America. Fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, video and newsreels, an ensemble of six actors create snapshots, vignettes, and stories reflecting the acts of everyday racism.

CITIZEN director Jay O'Leary urges audiences to investigate "what does it mean to be a citizen? How do you participate in your citizenship when you think no one is watching? If you don't know, you better ask somebody- because in CITIZEN...the actors won't be the only ones who will be watched."

Sound Theatre Company is proud to partner again with The Hansberry Project.

The Hansberry Project: Celebrating, supporting and presenting the work of black theatre artists.

Peeling, by Kaite O'Reilly
Directed by Teresa Thuman; Assisted by Monique Holt
August 8 - 25, Center Theatre, Seattle Premiere

Alfa, Beaty and Coral are three disabled actresses cast as the chorus of an absurdly over-produced, post-modern production of The Trojan Women. As Euripides' story unfolds of the women of Troy who lose their children in the bloody conflicts of men, so in parallel run the stories of Alfa, Beaty and Coral. The three are harsh and clever critics of each other, themselves, the privileged production team and the spectacle that surrounds them.

Reading Series of Plays by Native and Indigenous Playwrights
Curated by Fern Naomi Renville
Monthly readings - Titles, Dates, Venues and Artists - TBD

This year-long program of monthly readings of plays by Native and Indigenous Playwrights will include local plays, scripts that have been produced in other regions

and plays by Native women. Throughout 2019 Sound Theatre will also present Native and Indigenous centered plays that intersect with race, gender and disability, and devised work based on indigenous storytelling and performance practices.

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