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	All My Sons Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center March 18-April 17, 2011  In 1947 Seattle, the home fires are still burning. In Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winning family drama, the issues that surface are just as compelling today as when the play debuted in 1947. When a memorial tree planted for the Keller’s oldest son Larry falls during a storm, a series of unsettling events unfold for the... All My Sons Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center March 18-April 17, 2011 Event Rating (0 votes)
	The Scarlet Letter Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center October 22-December 5, 2010 Hester Prynne is one of the great central female characters in American literature"”a woman with vital sexuality, force and ironic humor. Naomi Iizuka's exciting new American Cycle version of the classic novel is staged by Lear deBessonet, a visionary director of innovative new works for the theatre who will take audiences inside... The Scarlet Letter Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center October 22-December 5, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	A Doctor in Spite of Himself Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center September 3-October 10, 2010 Playing doctor takes on a whole new meaning in Molière's wicked satire. Husband and wife Sganarelle and Martine put "in sickness and in health" to the test. One fight goes too far when she convinces the town he's the best doctor around and can cure any ailment. The tables quickly turn, however, and soon the town is out for... A Doctor in Spite of Himself Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center September 3-October 10, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Ruined Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center July 2-August 15, 2010 In a small town in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Mama Nadi both protects and profits from the young women who seek refuge in her rainforest bar and brothel. As the war outside rages, soldiers trade their guns for cold beer, a game of pool and pretty women"”until the revolution arrives at Mama's doorstep. The much-honored... Ruined Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center July 2-August 15, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)
	The Thin Place Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center May 14-June 13, 2010 Intiman presents the world premiere of "The Thin Place", written by local playwright Sonya Schneider and directed by Andrew Russell. Based on interviews conducted for Intiman by KUOW reporter Marcie Sillman, the play is drawn from the stories of more than a dozen people who reached a point of crisis in their lives and made the bold choice to... The Thin Place Presented by INTIMAN Theatre at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center May 14-June 13, 2010 Event Rating (0 votes)

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• Event Name: The Scarlet Letter
  Article: Scarlet Letter at Intiman gets a C
  Seattle Theater Examiner - Nov 01, 2010
  By Letitia Harmon

  The actors bring determination and energy to the stage, but the script feels loose and disjointed, and ultimately ineffective. Expand

  The actors bring determination and energy to the stage, but the script feels loose and disjointed, and ultimately ineffective. Collapse

• Event Name: The Scarlet Letter
  Article: The Scarlet Letter
  Broadway World - Oct 31, 2010
  By Jay Irwin

  All in all a passable production with nothing special to make it great. And while I appreciate the timely message of all inclusive love without societal interference, there are better ways to convey it.
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  All in all a passable production with nothing special to make it great. And while I appreciate the timely message of all inclusive love without societal interference, there are better ways to convey it.
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• Event Name: Paradise Lost
  "Event Review"
  Review posted by: Nov 30, -0001
  

  Intiman dusts off 75-year-old Paradise Lost, a disturbingly relevant relic.
  
  If you were in the audience the night Paradise Lost made its debut, you were probably praying to keep your $1,970 a... Expand

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  Intiman dusts off 75-year-old Paradise Lost, a disturbingly relevant relic. If you were in the audience the night Paradise Lost made its debut, you were probably praying to keep your $1,970 a year job. The mortgage on your $7,145 house was killing you, and with gas soaring to 10 cents a gallon, you might not make ends meet this month. But maybe the new President would be able to turn things around "¦ Playwright Clifford Odets first presented his Depression-era treatise on the slippery slope of prosperity and hope in 1935. As the inaugural production for Intiman's 2010/2011 season and the first performance under new Artistic Director Kate Whoriskey, Paradise Lost proves itself to be both relevant and timely. Intiman has tinkered with the 75-year-old script very little, beyond moving the setting of the play ahead one year to 1933 to get the dramatic benefit of the 25 percent unemployment that gripped the nation that year, along with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany and the advent of the Roosevelt administration. Within the comfortable, haven-like living room/dining room of the middle class Gordon family, the economy is gradually chipping away at both morale and morals. Business is bad and getting worse, as are relations between Leo Gordon (Michael Mantell) and his blowhard partner, Sam Katz (Bradley Goodwill). The Gordon's three adult children "” all unemployed or underemployed, all still living at home "” are ill-equipped to deal with the tough times. Daughter Pearl (Erin Bennett) is a pianist; golden son Ben (Shawn Law) struts and fails as a one-time Olympic runner now plagued by a bad heart; and youngest son Julie (Eric Pargac), though a banker, has been sidelined for months with "sleeping sickness," (probably a debilitating form of encephalitis). Armistice Day (Nov. 11) brings fears of Germany to the surface, a breakup and marriage, and foreshadowing of devastation at home and abroad. There exists quite the open door policy in the Gordon household, with family friend Gus, cabbie Kewpie, a duo of newspapermen, a gigantic man in worn overalls, and the odd politician strolling in unheralded, all within the first act. This resulted in a considerable amount of confusion within the audience, as Odets eschewed ham-fisted but helpful greetings between the characters in his dialogue; even going so far as to have grown up children call their parents by their first names in one breath, then "mama" or "papa" in the next. The crystal clear characterizations of the 14 actor cast made it hard to stay lost for long, though there was a mass scrambling for programs during the first intermission as the audience tried to figure out what, exactly, was the relationship between the 24 characters who variously wandered, stormed, or burst ecstatically onstage. The play is heavy on soliloquies and outdated slang. And it's long. Very long. Played at pace, it would run well over three and a half hours. Director Dámaso Rodriguez's solution to both the length and language was to allow the cast to deliver their lines at a breakneck pace whenever the mood struck. Sometimes this was effective, giving modern ears attuned to emotional tone rather than content something to latch onto. During more than a few touching moments, however, archaic yet beautiful poetry was lost. Lori Larsen balanced sarcasm and tenderness as matriarch Clara Gordon. Matt Gottlieb displayed such an affable onstage presence as family friend Gus that the audience instantly accepted him, though they were visibly baffled for most of Act One by who he was and why he felt he could stroll around the Gordon household so freely, pawing their stuff and eating their food uninvited. If genial Gottlieb wandered into my house, offered to tune my piano, then started tinkering with my radio and sorting his stamp collection as he did in Paradise Lost, I probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow, either. Less impressive was TV veteran Herschel Sparber as Mr. Pike, "the furnace man," whose main function seemed to be to periodically emerge from the Gordons' basement to voice his observations on said furnace and the world at large, which Sparber mangled multiple times, and to be astonishingly tall. Set designer Tom Buderwitz created a cozy, cocoon-like realism on the stage floor that soaring two stories to become a flimsy, jagged-edged scrim surmounted by an upright piano sliced into a brutal triptych. Though the play is more about humanity than the economy, and ends on Odets' forced note of hope, one wonders if Kate Whoriskey, who was officially sworn in as Intiman's new Artistic Director on opening night, misjudged Seattle's desire to wallow in every family's possible penurious future. The opening weekend performance on Sunday played to a theater that was barely half full. Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets runs through April 25 at Intiman Theatre, located at Seattle Center. Tickets and production information are available at www.intiman.org. From www.pnwtheatre.com Collapse

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• Event Name: The Year of Magical Thinking
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  Review posted by: Nov 30, -0001
  

  I saw the 2nd preview on 8/22. It was a painful affair. Judith Roberts seems not up to the task. She brings the memoir in a monotonous voice - what a shame. It takes stamina to sit this play out.

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  I saw the 2nd preview on 8/22. It was a painful affair. Judith Roberts seems not up to the task. She brings the memoir in a monotonous voice - what a shame. It takes stamina to sit this play out.

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