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Northwest Premiere!
Patty Red Pants

By Trista Baldwin

Directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield

 

ÒDaring, inventive and thrillingly theatricalÓ –Backstage

 

April 21st – May 7th

Thurs-Sat 8pm Sun 2pm

At Live Girls! Theater 2220 NW Market

 

Tickets range from $9-$12 and are available at the door

Or in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4327

or by calling1-800-838-3006

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In Trista BaldwinÕs Patty Red Pants, a chance encounter between old friends raises unsettling questions about their girlhood,

a time when desire bloomed in the shadow of a murder of their peer.  Suspended in a web of memories, this gripping coming-of-age,

 post-Red Riding Hood tale lurches between reality and dream as Patty Red Pants chases the truth of her own past.

Named Show Business WeeklyÕs Best Off- Off Broadway play of 2003 the Northwest Premiereof this critically acclaimed play is not to be missed.

Directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield this production features Kristina Sutherland, co-artistic director of Macha Monkey,

Live Girls! company member Erin Stewart and Jason Sharp, recently seen in Capitol Hill High.

 

"Top 10 of 2005...the action unfolded like a dream in which several corners of the blanket of ideas

were smoothed and tucked...(the play)proceeded to proceeded to bubble up from the

 unconscious with regularity in the months to come."  -MINNEAPOLIS CITY PAGES

"a delicious, dark and semisweet confection" - ARIZONA TRIBUNE

"Éan exciting, soulful work."  - CHICAGO READER

ÒDevastating"  - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

 

Playwright Trista BaldwinÕs plays have been produced and developed throughout the U.S. and Australia by groups such as The Guthrie,

La Mama, New Georges, The Empty Space Theatre, Actors Theater of Phoenix, Circle X , Stark Raving Theater, BPP, Chicago Dramatists,

 Urban Stages and HB PlaywrightsÕ Foundation. Patty Red Pants was selected for the National New Play NetworkÕs 2004 New Play Showcase.

  Other plays include Sand, ElectroPuss (2003 Drammy Award, 2002 AriZoni Award), Sex and Other Collisions and the campy cult hit

Chicks With Dicks: Bad Girls On Bikes Doing Bad Things!  Trista is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships at The PlaywrightsÕ Center of Minneapolis.

She is an affiliated artist of New Georges and a member of the HB PlaywrightsÕ Workshop.

 

Director Joy Brooke Fairfield is a recent graduate of Harvard University. This is JoyÕs second collaboration with Live Girls!

where she recently directed a new work from Dickey Nesenger commissioned as part of Holiday XXX.  Since coming to Seattle

 she has worked in literary dept at The Empty Space Theatre and assistant directed at On The Boards and The Intiman Theatre.

She also plays electric violin in the Seattle rock band VigilSpec.