INCUBATOR PLAYREADING SERIES

Do you know what every amazing theatre production has in common?

A killer script.

But those plays aren’t going to read themselves! So — after a year’s break — we’re revitalizing our Incubator Series of play readings, starting in January. Spoiler alert: we’re hoping these plays can find their way into a future Vashon Repertory Theatre season. These new plays will come to us at random, and we select material aimed at giving the audience a taste of different forms of theatrical writing…primarily from Northwest playwrights. Here’s a glimpse of what’s ahead!

Live from Liberty
by KUOWs Bill Radke
Sunday, January 14, 5pm
Vashon High School Theatre

In this show within a show, Radke’s characters – each in their own hilarious way – struggle with the question “Can’t we all just get along?”   It turns out to be a question within a question as the play’s radio host, Jack Ellis, confronts conflicts in his personal life as he addresses global conflict on the air...live, in person and befuddled. 

Directed by Seattle director/actor Ian Bell, the play’s cast features the crème de la crème of Vashon’s professional resident actors led by seasoned Hollywood transplant Brian Palermo as Jack.  Dedra Whitt, Mik Kuhlman, Chris Boscia, Elizabeth Klob, Chaim Rosmarin and Harris Levinson round out the cast of pithy, well-drawn characters, including a hapless Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, played by Seattle’s David Gehrman, and a chameleon Chatbot. Vashon youth actors Phoebe Ray and Chloe Monroe supply the play’s teen energy.  

Complete with inside jokes for a Northwest audience, Radke has written what he knows, taking comedic license with the real-life action behind the scenes of a radio production.

With each reading theatre lovers in attendance will be invited  to offer feedback in an open discussion following the performance.

Vashon High School Theatre
9600 SW 204th St,
Vashon, WA 98070

Pay-What-You-Will at the door ( $15 suggested donation )

Watch this page for upcoming play readings. To submit your play for consideration in the Incubator Series, email: ctiencken@vashonrepertorytheatre.org