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Sgt Rigsby & His Amazing Silhouettes presents a shadow puppet show about hard living in today’s Seattle. Desperate times, hard choices, talking animals. The show is a roller coaster of humor, despair, and hope. It follows the stories of Chicken Jenny and Minky, two souls who have stumbled on life’s … Continue reading
Join the elite forces of the Holiday Defense League as they valiantly struggle to save the most wonderful day of the year and try to solve the mystery: Why? Why? Why are killer robots from the future trying to ruin Christmas? From the off-kilter mind of playwright and puppeteer Scot … Continue reading
The Ballad of Karla Fox is a super intense and really dark psychological thriller/shadow puppet show. After her parents die in a suspicious accident (involving a drunken bulldog driving a moving van full of pianos) Karla Fox goes to live with her strange, stern Aunt Sadie. But soon Karla is … Continue reading
Chicken Jenny was a bird who wanted to walk the straight and narrow. She wanted to pack her shameful secrets in a steamer trunk and sink ‘em to the bottom of the deep blue sea. But trouble followed her like a pack o’ dogs chasing a meat truck on a … Continue reading
Audrey & Nelson starts with two hapless twentysomethings waking up in bed together with only the vaguest memories of how they got there. But Audrey and Nelson decide to explore the possibilities! What follows is a rueful comic musical about sex, traffic lights, bad language, singing penises, and broken hearts. … Continue reading
Over the past few years, Sgt Rigsby has brought you sweeping historical epics, tender and tearful romances, puzzling philosophical questions, hard hitting political/social drama; but never before has he tackled such an important theme: adolescence in America. With a nod to Judy Blume and R. Crumb, Teensploitation is a show … Continue reading
Three-piece Seattle alt-bluegrass band and tall-tale artisans The Half Brothers take the stage at Theatre Off Jackson for two nights in March to ply their storytelling trade, accompanied by some of the city’s finest writers and musicians. SMALL TOWN RUMORS AND CHICKEN TALES shines a spotlight on Seattle’s renowned Half … Continue reading
“Roscoe is a boy inventor straight out of an Encyclopedia Brown book. His dog Scampers can talk. The two of them upset history by drunkenly driving a Timecycle through the past, accidentally killing Abe Lincoln, and causing a randy zebra to bugger the baby Jesus to death. It’s horrible; it’s … Continue reading
An entry in the Northwest Film Forums 48 hour film challenge With Ben Laurance and Pamala Mijatov, directed and anmiated by Webster Crowell.
Annex Theatre took part in Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays for 2007.
