1998-1999 Season

Scott Bradley, Artistic Director

Welcome to the home the most thrilling and fantastical theater you will find in Seattle!

Throughout our seasons, Open Circle's resident company unites with local diretors, musicians, visual artists and performers, to bring fresh insight and invention to our creations of highly physical, ensemble-style theater. Join us as we reinvent the theatrical experience.

Click on a show below to see details about that show.

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

The producer, writer, and cast of this year's runaway hit POONA THE FUCKDOG bring to Seattle Goode's anti-Christmas pageant THE EIGHT: Reindeer Monologues for a two-week benefit engagement at Re-bar, Seattle's popular venue for alternative music and comedy.

Poona the Fuckdog & other plays for children (Re-bar)

These outrageous "Fairy tales for Grown-ups" are not for the easily offended! Poona, our ingenuous heroine, meets up with aliens, talking shrubs, and mealy mouthed salesmen in her quest to find someone to play with. Nothing is sacred in this raucous assault on the power of language. After a hugely successful run at Open Circle, we packed up show and took the show over to ReBar! Sell out crowds... adoring fans... but we did it only for the love.

Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children!!

Crusoe's Island and Pu'uhonua

Open Circle premieres two bracing one-acts that explore perceptions of race and the nature of love. Crusoe uses Dafoe's familiar story to examine the "civilized savage"; Pu'uhonua explores love and savagery outside a 1940s Japanese internment camp.

The Life of Edward the Second of England

Creating a "Commedia dell'Industrial Opera" from both Asian and European influences, Open Circle reinvents the story of a king forced to choose between the throne and the man he loves. With polyrhythmic percussion and Brechtian mask-work, this promises to be anything but a dry history play.

The Naked King

Open Circle completes the popular fairy-tale trilogy they began with The Dragon and The Shadow. This time, Russian satirist Eugene Schwartz takes on musty traditions and bungling bureaucrats with the help of a feisty princess, her swineherd lover, and a singing pot. Schwartz is back.

Veggie Underground & Nicco

What is a pre-season teaser? OCTC is starting a tradition of bringing the fun and zaniness back into theater. Our 1st annual pre-season teaser features an original evening of sketches by our very own playwright in residence, Nick Zagone.

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