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Live Girls! Theater presents

SCAB

A Wickedly funny and provocative modern love story.

Written by Sheila Callaghan.

Directed by Meghan Shalom Arnette.

 

Sept 23rd -Oct 16th

Fri, Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm ;

Industry night Mon Oct 10th at8pm

 

NOTE : NO SHOW OCTOBER 8TH DUE TO MONTHLY

BALLARD ART WALK CABARET

 

Ticket Price $12.00 General $9.00 Students/Seniors

available in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com .

18 and under: free at the door

At Live Girls! Theater 2220 NW Market St – Lower Level in Ballard

 

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SCAB FLYER

 

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Live Girls! Theater invites you to the Northwest premiere of SCAB--an intense, sharply witty, wacky yet joyful play by one of AmericaÕs most promising and audaciously imaginative playwrights, the award-winning Sheila Callaghan.

 

A fresh, fiery coming of age story, SCAB brings together a post-nuclear family of two very different women, a malevolent statue of the Virgin Mary and a houseplant named Susan to create ÒAn offbeat, comedic exploration of friendship, love, pain and healing.Ó – Backstage.

Òwritten with a yen for interesting language and liberally salted with well-observed details of the lives of newly minted adults...the play shines.Ó The New York Times.

 

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

"The piece is beautifully written by Callaghan, whose ear for natural dialogue is superbÉÓ Theatermania

Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Annex Theatre, Moving Arts, and LABrynth, among others. She is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-Act, a 2001-2002 Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 MacDowell Residency, and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts grant. She is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious Something, and her opera Elemental with music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos. Three monologues from her plays appear in Heinemann's series Monologues by Women, For Women. Ms. Callaghan is a proud member of the playwrights' organization 13P.

 

 

MORE ABOUT THE PLAY

SCAB has received previous productions at the Blue House Theatre in L.A in 2004, Theatre Catalyst in Philadelphia in 2003, Impact Theatre in Berkeley in 2003 and WomenÕs Expressive Theatre in NYC in 2002. The play received a staged reading in Seattle at the old Speakeasy in the late nineties as a part of the Bonanza Series produced by PrinterÕs Devil Theatre.

Reviews have said:


"Sheila Callaghan crafts sparkling dialogue for two goofy graduate students in LA... romantic entanglements are added with wit, and sensitivity. A whip-smart play." -TimeOut NY (Critic's Pick)

"Rarely does a play give such an impression that the characters were alive long before I began watching them and continued with their lives after I went home... The plot is unusual without being implausible, the dialogue is intelligent while still sounding natural... I would watch this play again without hesitation." -offoffoff.com

"Wandering from the intimacy and hilarity of girl talk to the incoherent blather of academia to the intensity and illogic of Annie's neurosis, "Scab" is both an homage to the amusing banter that overlies our superficial daily existence and a look into the complicated tangle of emotions just beneath... wildly imaginative." -The Daily Cal

 

 

MORE ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

 

THE DIRECTOR :

Meghan Shalom Arnette is the Artistic Director and Co-founder of Live Girls! Theater.  She is a Seattle based director, educator and actor. Most recently she directed NOTORIOUS WOMEN and FAMILY STORIES at Live Girls.

ÒLive Girls! artistic head Meghan Arnette directs, winding Srbljanovic's dark slapstick into a heated, explosive frenzy, manipulating the intimate Pioneer Square space with deft skillÓ. The Seattle Times ,

 

 

THE CAST AND CREW :
Paul Bergman (Alan)        
Amy Conant  (Christa )
Stephanie Merrow (Mom)

Kait Powers  (Jenna)

Jaime Roberts (Anima)        

Meghan Arnette (Director)

Erin Palmer (Assistant Director / Stage Manager)

Michele Hallman (Costume Designer)

 

MORE ABOUT THE ACTORS:

PAUL BERGMAN most recently appeared as Young Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL at ACT and has appeared with several local improv troupes.  AMY CONANT recently moved to Seattle from New York where she was a member of the Hypothetical Theatre Company, performing in new works.  STEPHANIE MERROW played Captain Zannerick Quall at Live Girls! Theater in BAKERÕS DOZEN .  She performs regularly with Northwest Murder Mysteries and Braintrust improv troupe.  KAIT POWERS graduated from Centra Michigan University in 2004. She was recently seen in HOBSONÕS CHOICE with Exchange Theatre and BAKERÕS DOZEN at Live Girls! Theater.  JAIME ROBERTS was recently seen in LAURAÕS BUSH with Washington Ensemble Theatre ,THE ELSINOR DIARIES with One Lump or Two Productions and in Fringe ACT.