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The Bakery- Spring Readings

April 20th -21st

Friday 7pm

Saturday 2pm and 7pm

Your chance to be a part of the development process and discuss new works!

Five of the plays chosen for past festivals have been slated for production by Live Girls!

and other local companies. Our audience truly sees it first! 

See the schedule below for the complete line-up.

All shows at Live Girls! theater in Ballard 2220 NW Market Lower Level.

$5 general 18 and under free. 

Advance tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006.

Friday April 20^th at 7PM

Young Love by Alexa Jarvis

Directed by Keira McDonald

The Devil's Chord by Elena Hartwell

Directed by Erin Fortier

Saturday April 21^st at 2PM

Fake Names, Big Problems by Sha'ray Gainer

Directed by Adrienne Green

Pussy Boy by Christine Evans

Directed by Michael Lindgren

Saturday April 21 at 7PM

Letting Go of Something That Never Was by Bethany Greer

Directed by Kate Jaeger

Save Love Canal by Molly Best Tinsley

Directed by John Farrage

More about the plays…

Young Love is a Live Girls! pick from ACT’s Young Playwrights Program 2006/2007.

Alexa Jarvis is a Junior at Seattle Academy.

The Devil’s Chord is set outside Boise City, Oklahoma on Black Sunday (April 1935) the worst recorded storm

of the dust bowl. The dust storm remains one of the worst environmental disasters in American History. It is

the second play in a trilogy dedicated to our impact on the environment. Elena Hartwell is the director of

the drama department at Seattle Central Community College. Her work has been seen in Seattle, Tacoma,

Olympia, Athens (Georgia), San Diego, Detroit, and Edinburgh Scotland.

Fake Names, Big Problems is Live Girls! pick from Rainier Valley Youth Theatre’s Young Playwrights Program

2006/2007. Sha’ray Gainer is a student at Rainer Beach High School.

Pussy Boy is is a blackly comic urban fable, set under a freeway overpass.

Bill is teaching young son Algy to "hammer straight and think useful". But when Bill evicts their bag-lady

tenant, the Dog Lady, and the police remove her 14 dogs, Algy runs away. A singing police chorus appear

as unreliable angels to the dreamy Algy, trapped between Bill's violent world and the animal comfort of the

Dog world. A native of Australia, Christine Evans recently moved to the US to complete an MFA (Playwriting)

and PhD (Theatre and Performance Studies) at Brown University. Christine’s plays have been developed

and produced in Australia, Providence, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Texas, Santa Rosa and San

Francisco where her play 'Slow Falling Bird' was showcased at the 2003 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival and

premiered with Crowded Fire. Christine's plays won Perishable Theatre’s 10th and 9th Annual International

Women’s Playwriting Competitions.

Letting Go of Something That Never Was is a Live Girls! pick from ACT’s Young Playwrights Program 2006/2007.

Bethany Greer is a student at Garfield High School.

Save Love Canal opens when a phone call from nowhere informs Mariah that her estranged twin Tommy

has killed himself.Is the man she resuscitates, wrestles with, and rejects over the next dark hours a saint or a

madman, or the embodiment of her own guilt? If Tommy is now merely a figment of her memory, what are

his memories, which begin to diverge from hers?  Molly Best Tinsley lives in Ashland, Oregon, and is the first

professor emerita in the history of the Naval Academy. Her stories have appeared in such periodicals as

Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Shenandoah, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her play, Cell Mates

being produced in Quickies 2007 is a finalist for The Heideman award. Her play Fission, produced by Live

Girls! in 2005 where it garnered runner-up honors in the Seattle Times’ Best New Play, 2005, and was also a

finalist for the 2006 Oregon book awards.