ACTLab is proud to announce the critically acclaimed UMO Ensemble will perform UMO Resistance Cabaret at ACT this July.

UMO Resistance Cabaret asks the questions of “What does resistance look like? How do we resist? What is irresistible?” UMO and an amazing group of guest artists – featuring new buffoons, ladies in white, aerialists, musicians, singers, dancers, burlesque artists and more – will explore and explode these questions, with the vital help of the audience. Presidential addresses, suffrage speeches, found text and comic improvisation meld together in a show unlike anything else.

Artists include UMO Ensemble members Elizabeth Klob, Maria Glanz, Lyam White, Janet McAlpin and David Godsey, ACT Theatre’s Emily Penick, and guest artists Lynelle Sjoberg, Abby Enson, Katheryn Reed, Molly Shannon, Jesse Belle Jones, Marchette DuBois, Rob Jellinek, Taryn Dorsey, Chris Frickland, Briana Kersten – and more to be revealed.

In the past twenty years, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative and compelling performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. UMO Ensemble has made over 24 mind-blowingly gorgeous pieces of physical theatre that have been performed in theaters, at festivals, and in schools throughout the Northwest, the United States, Canada, and Europe. UMO’s most recent show, FAIL BETTER:: Beckett Moves UMO debuted in ACT’s Lalie Theatre as part of the Seattle Beckett Festival and was met with rave reviews. It returned to ACT for a second run and performed at the Fools Fury Festival in San Francisco in 2016.

UMO Resistance Cabaret will be performed in The Bullitt Theatre Space at ACT, 700 Union Street, in downtown Seattle. The production opens on July 21, 2017 and runs through July 23, 2017. Tickets start at $25 (student & senior discounts available). For tickets and more information, call 206.292.7676 or visit www.acttheatre.org. For more information about UMO Ensemble, visit http://www.umo.org/