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
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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.