Burien Actors Theatre takes theater online for 2020 Shelter-in-place Season
Burien Actors Theatre (BAT) can’t bring audiences into the theater right now, so the 
company has gone online.
BAT’s 2020 Shelter-in-place Season consists of five plays over nine weeks read live online by talented actors with guidance from equally talented directors. To get the Zoom link look HERE.
The plays are the Artistic Director’s choice with little supervision. So they will be different than offerings found anywhere else on social media or streaming.
Two of the plays have been on BAT’s stage, and three have not. According to BAT’s Artistic Director, Eric Dickman, “Even if you saw the play onstage, a reading is a very different experience.”
This is a chance to experience something unique in these twisted times. The readings can only be seen live in real-time, or not at all. They will not be recorded. And because they are presented through Zoom, sweatpants are optional.
Performance Schedule
Here is the schedule for BAT’s 2020 Shelter-in-place Season (all times are Pacific Daylight Time):
May 2 at 8 pm – The Letters by John W. Lowell
May 3 at 2 pm – The Letters by John W. Lowell
May 16 at 8 pm – waiting on rights from the author
May 17 at 2 pm – waiting on rights from the author
May 30 at 8 pm – Zombie by Bill Connington
May 31 at 2 pm – Zombie by Bill Connington
June 13 at 8 pm – Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton
June 14 at 2 pm – Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton
June 27 at 8 pm – waiting on rights from the author
June 28 at 2 pm – waiting on rights from the author
talented local actress, Peggy and her family lived in Burien for more than 40 years and inspired BAT’s playwrights festival. She died (not of COVID-19) on April 1st at her daughter’s home in Bellingham, just a few weeks past her 100th birthday.