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Narrative Cocktails

Time for another round up of Intiman Theatre’s specialty cocktails, some from last season and some we’re serving right now. I created a lot of these. I did not create the cute little quotes.

Try these at home.

The Year of Magical Thinking
By Joan Didion

The Gin Didion –
A mature, refreshing drink with the strength of [...]

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I Like Getting Paid in Gift Cards

Because then I “have” to buy stuff.

I did a few jobs for school that resulted in some Amazon.com money. Can’t wait till these folks show up at my door!

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rules, Partners, Rivals
By Gillian Gill

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
By Sandra M Gilbert & [...]

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(Un)Common Denominators of the Last Six Films I’ve Watched…

Kelly Reilly and Rupert Friend.

Out of this list…

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Libertine
The Young Victoria

…Two films of which they were in together.

Just noting a pattern.

Also, a shout out to Rosamund Pike for appearing in 3 of the last SEVEN movies I’ve watched. I feel as though I’ve been [...]

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This Made Me Laugh Heartily

Staff chat during tonight’s performance of Black Nativity, Intiman’s annual Christmas production.
William: It sounded like they just said “Sanjaya”.
Me: They did. He’s in the show this year.
William: WHAT???!!!! Are you serious?
Madeline: Does that mean you’re gonna see the show, William?
William: No. But if Sanjaya had done the one person Joan Didion play, I would [...]

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I’m Published In A Magazine! (ad)

If you happen to flip thorugh the latest issue of Relevant Magazine, you’ll find something that looks like a non-bifurcated version of this nestled into an article about the new face of homelessness, somewhere after the Matisyahu and Switchfoot interviews… (My ellipses are trying to connote irony, but about what, I’m not entirely sure).
MHGS marketing [...]

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"If I Read Your Play, Will You Promise To Stop Writing Them?"

This is my third year reviewing submissions for a playwrights’ residency program in NY. Every year I wait excitedly for my packet of plays to arrive in a giant manilla envelope. Then, every year my smile slackens upon reading the first line of the first play, wherein I remember that 4,999 out of every [...]

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Time To Say Goodbye (Imagine this in an insipid Sarah Brightman voice)

Ian is moving to New York on Monday morning to start Columbia’s MFA prgram for dramaturgy. Ian’s parting is significant for me in many ways, not the least of which being that for 3 years, he’s been the one person I could really talk shop with here in Seattle as far as theatre/collaboration/avant garde/narrative [...]

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No, We Do Not Make Mojitos…

…but we do come up with clever cocktail tie-ins for every production.
Here’s the batch from the last two shows at Intiman. The next show, which opens in two weeks, is gonna have cucumber martinis! My idea! (followed by collaboration on the recipe of course)
The Clown CarPatrón Silver tequila Rose’s Lime Juice Splash [...]

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I Never Really Blog About Theatre…

…mostly because it’s such a small world and one negative comment can easily make it back to the person you’re talking about, and I’m not really into that. I’ve had to spend years working on my ability to speak respectfully of shows I hate, whether its because I’m giving an usher speech, or because [...]

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Urban Hymnal

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