Intiman Theatre will partner with the World Affairs Council and Elliott Bay Books to present author and activist Lisa Shannon, founder of “Run for Congo Women,” on April 12 at 7pm, followed by a signing of her new book, A Thousand Sisters, in the Intiman lobby. This is the first in a series of events Intiman will offer in connection with its summer production of Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play inspired by the real stories of Congolese women. The cost of the lecture is $15.
Tickets are available from www.world-affairs.org.
In commemoration of World Theatre Day, on Saturday, March 27, Intiman will offer a one-day sale on tickets for Ruined. Patrons can purchase adult tickets for any performance during the first two weeks of the run, July 2-July 18, for only $25 using the promo word “Congo” – available at www.intiman.org but only if purchased on Saturday, March 27. (Not valid for Opening Night on July 9, previously purchased tickets or combined with other offers.)
“If I were put in charge of arts programming on PBS and had unlimited funds at my disposal,” Terry Teachout wrote in the Wall Street Journal on March 20, 2010, “…I’d fly out to Seattle and tape an Intiman Theatre performance of Kate Whoriskey’s staging of Ruined.”
The most acclaimed play of the 2009 theatre season, Ruined is set in a Congolese bar-and-brothel that provides refuge to young women caught up in the chaos and violence that surrounds them. Infused with music, hope, spirit and wit, Ruined will be produced at Intiman from July 2-August 8 with members of the award-winning original company and then travel to South Africa’s Market Theatre, where the story will be shared with Congolese refugees in Johannesburg as the first production of Intiman’s International Cycle.
More info about Ruined is available at www.intiman.org.
