PREVIEW: Blind Spot at Annex Theatre
Something very interesting currently playing at Annex Theatre:
In the nooks and crannies of her home, eight-year-old Kirsty Vanderkamp discovers a miniature world: dust bunny farms under her bed, a burlesque show in the butter dish, a gossip magazine called Dish published in the china cabinet, a religious empire centered in the bathroom lighting fixture. As Kirsty explores and documents this world, she crosses paths with an ambitious social climber named Aura Rotter and a lovelorn farmboy named Iota Potts, who loves Aura more than is good for anybody. If Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez co-wrote a children’s play about divorce and NAFTA, it might look a little like Blind Spot. Nine actors play more than 50 roles while a handful of tables and chairs transform into a dozen locations.
Those 50 roles feature the talents of Sara Balcaitis, John Bianchi, Daniel Christensen, Joe Feeney, Sann Hall, Ellie McKay, Alissa Mortenson, Jennifer Pratt, and Seanjohn Walsh.
Blind Spot runs on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm through February 14, 2009 at Annex Theatre, located at 1100 East Pike Street, on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Tickets are $12 or less. A pay-what-you-can performances will be held on January 23rd and 24th and an Industry Performance (open to the public) will be held on Monday, February 9th. For more info visit www.annextheatre.org.
