Welcome to Betty's Diner

by Marcus Gorman

Directed  by Mimi Katano

Saturday, June 6 at 2pm

 

What if you went back in time and didn’t feel like returning? Olivia is a nostalgia-obsessed millennial who has just stumbled upon a defunct diner in the New Mexico desert along Route 66. One touch of a dusty, wall-mounted telephone and she’s suddenly whisked away to 1958--an era of poodle skirts, slick-haired hooligans, and golden oldies.
 
At Betty’s Diner, a beloved eatery along the highway, Olivia gets her fill of eccentric locals: the pageant queen past her prime and her delinquent boyfriend; the tough-but-compassionate owner and the World War II veteran in love with her. But in Donna, a monster movie-loving mechanic, Olivia finds a reason to stay behind. Grab a booth, order a milkshake, and Welcome to Betty’s Diner. 

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Featuring: Emily Huntingford, Lisa Viertel, Van Lang Pham, Alanah Pascual, Valarie Ryan Miller, Luka Cruz, Josh Erme, Hank Tian, and Phillip Smith

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The Unshored

by Maggie Lee

Directed  by Agastya Kohli

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30pm

 

In a strange, lonely seaport perched on the edge of eternity, the souls of the recently departed must board a ship to sail away on their next long journey, past where the sea meets the sky. But who do you choose to travel with? How long would you wait for someone, and will they be waiting for you? THE UNSHORED is a wry, unflinching exploration of who we are without the definitions of life and the true connections that hold us together after the ties that bind us have fallen away. 

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Featuring: Alpa Dave, Emily Shuel, Caitlin Frances, Sofia Ayala, Hank Tian, Ryan Sander, Marianna de Fazio, Daniel Christensen, and Archana Srikanta

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Untitled Play About Life and Death

by Holly Arsenault

Directed  by Carol Roscoe

Sunday, June 7 at 2pm

 

You get a letter inviting you to attend a secret meeting. You consider ignoring the letter, but the signature, the letterhead, the location—they all suggest importance, legitimacy, and something else: duty. So, you go. As instructed, you tell no one. You show up to a non-descript basement room in a revered institution. Others arrive, strangers to you, and equally confounded. You smoke. You chit chat. You speculate. Finally, a man in a white coat enters. Soberly, he informs you that you have been selected for a committee of laypeople (this man, you now understand, is a doctor). A new technology has been developed—a technology that can save the life a person who would otherwise die. But there is only one spot available, and there are three patients who require the treatment. Your task—yours and these other unlucky chosen strangers’—is to decide: who will receive the treatment, and who will not; who will live, and who will die. And you cannot leave this room until you do.

This is a story about mercy, judgement, and an impossible test, inspired by real events that happened in Seattle. 

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Cast to be announced.

 

Flight of the Psychopomp

by Lizzy Bennett

Directed  by Lamar Legend

Sunday, June 7 at 7pm

 

There lies a house between the Heavens and Earth. Hermes thinks they're just a messenger for Doris and Alexander in this house. When they make a shocking discovery about who they really are, Hermes must turn the lovers’ egos and hubris into a means of escape. An ornithological comedy of Greek proportions. ​

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Featuring: Miguel Castellano, Sarah Garcia, Charlotte Peters, and Van Lang Pham