First Look is a reading series where SPC recruits professional actors to read new full length scripts bt local playwrights.
These meetings culminate with a discussion after the reading so they author gets to hear constructive feedback from the audience.
The First Look Series is hosted by Do North Theatre,17517-C 15th Ave NE, in Shoreline. Readings are the first Sunday of every month from 6 - 9 pm.
February 2010 - Frozen Masterpieces
by Elena Naksova
Directed by Miryam Gordon
Frozen Masterpieces’ is a story about our struggle for permanency against the destructive forces of time. Edward is an artist who has picked tattooing as his favorite art form, because of its permanency. He is deeply captivated by the idea of putting his artwork on a “living, bleeding, twitching canvas” and having it remain there for a lifetime. Valerie is a thirty-five year old woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer and is searching for a way to express her pain and grief. One evening Valerie visits Edward’s studio and she gets a tattoo on her left breast.
January 2010 All I Ever Wanted
By Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest
Directed by Christy Denny
Eighteen-year-old Charlie is about to become a father. With the same set of choices his father faced when his Mom was pregnant, Charlie is driven to do it better. He will rewrite his future by unraveling his family’s past. All I Ever Wanted follows a boy through the lens of his video camera. With a bicycle, a newspaper and a prank call, this family breaks open a buried time capsule and must encounter the truth.
Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest has written and produced her plays in the Minnesota Fringe Festival and has recently received her MFA from Goddard College.
Antonio Vivaldi’s orchestral music was first performed by an orchestra of orphan girls. Who were they? How did they live, and what did they aspire to in a world in which young women had very few options?
Theresa Bassoon follows the impossible choices faced by a young bassoonist growing to maturity in the Ospedale della Pieta, an orphanage in early 18th Century Venice.
A full length drama in two acts, Theresa Bassoon has been a Fund For New American Plays Award Recipient, the winner of Santa Cruz Actors Theatre Full Length Play award and a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation New American Play Award Semi-finalist.
The reading featured Lorrie Fargo, Sarah Budge, Nicole Fierstein, Jade Justad, Dylan Chalfy, Patricia Bonnell, Dan Brockley, Christine Nelson, Shanna Ridenair, and Jeff Schwab.
What happens when The Beacon, a “New Age” educational organization, proposes to build a retreat center on the outskirts of the small, conservative town of Shady Oaks, Mississippi?
Keith McGregor is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced across the country. He grew up in Mississippi and is VERY familiar with the foibles and peculiarities, as well as the humor and the true charm of the characters about whom he writes. For more information about McGregor and his work, visit www.ravenwriters.com
The reading featured Richard Hawkins, Susie Ross, Yvette Zaepfel, Therese Diekens, Ellen McLain, and Raymond Burke.
A farcical retelling of the legend of Gilgamesh set in a trailer park complete with all the tabloid regulars - werewolves, space aliens, and even a cameo by Bigfoot himself. The reading featured local talent Alysha Curry, Fox Matthews, Aaron, Key, and Trish Loyd.
Shakespeare's darkest comedy is reinterprited through a modern lens in this dark drama about a female pastor who must wrestle with her rigid definitions of right and wrong to expose a lecherous district attorney. The reading featured Emmatrice Devan, Jesse Putnam, Alysha Curry, Aaron Key, Nicole Alouf, and Sherry Narens.
Sleep with Jesus by Katherine Luck: A young man who wants to become a monk must make a great sacrifice to save his eccentric family. The staged reading will feature local actors David Roby, Monica Wulzen, Enrique Olguin, Nicole Alouf.
Trigger Happy by Ry Sherrell: A man's refusal to move on after a personal tragedy leads to a strange addiction and profoundly affects everyone around him. The staged reading will feature local actors Toby Dycus, David Roby, Sherry Narens, Cheryl Carvajal, and Katherine Luck.
New short pieces by Lyn Coffin, Sherry Narens, Katherine Luck, and John Davenport.
What if Desdemona did not die? What if Othello had taken his own life out of a mistaken belief that he had murdered his wife in a jealous rage? Would she ironically end up with Cassio as Iago had made Othello fear? For that matter, who is Desdemona in the first place? What was her life like before she met Othello, and what was her courtship like after meeting the heroic Moor of Venice? Playwright Cheryl Carvajal explores these and other questions in this fascinating play about one of Shakespeare’s most tragic heroines.
The reading featured local actors Trish Lloyd, Lisa Carswell, G'Tomas Jones, Ben Gonio, Richard Hawkins, and Lyn Coffin.
After a year struggling through the roller coaster ride of emotions following her husband’s death, Sarah Dunn suddenly finds herself thrust into a most bizarre love triangle with her former college sweetheart and the ghost of her deceased husband. From this central plot spins a web of three intersecting stories that mirror and counterpoint one another creating a fast paced, bawdy comedy that mixes the profound and profane to examine how the frenetic pace and mounting obligations of contemporary society can leave us all living in a virtual purgatory.
The cast will feature local actors Ben Gonio, Trish Lloyd, Laura Arnold, G To'mas Jones, Joel Korkowski, Rich Hawkins, and Alysha Curry.
A provocative drama about an interloper who infiltrates the therapy session of a group of suicidal patients playing games to figure out who gets the pills to finish themselves off. The reading featured local actors Simon Hamlin, Richard Hawkins, Jeff Schwab, Sherry Narens, and Kathy Okawa.
Imagine two quarreling brothers stuck in the backseat on a long family car trip. Now imagine those same brothers grown up and driving in the front seat, but they still don’t get along any better than when they were kids. Such is the case of Stephen and Jerry, driving back to their hometown for their mother’s funeral. The breakfast exercise of the play’s title brings up the subject of their estranged – possibly dead? – sister, and other issues that await them back home. Other characters include cousin Joanie, who’s been looking after their mother; Bradley, a friendly but somewhat gossipy delivery man; and Aunt Wy (short for Wyoming – she and her siblings were named for states), who’s losing her eyesight but can still pick a lock with the best of them.
A fascinating play that explores the collision of two worlds. In one world we're invited into the cubicle of two career minded computer computer programmers while in the other we meet a Hispanic family doing everything they can to care for an ailing child. It is a contrast of cultures, language, and values in this dynamic drama.
