BLT's 31st Season:2010-2011


Reefer Madness the Musical
Zombie
Martha, Josie, and the Chinese Elvis
The Clean House
The Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival


"Reefer Madness the Musical"

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Written by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney and inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name (view the entire original film to the left), this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence.
The addictive and clever musical numbers range from big Broadway-style showstoppers to swing tunes like "Down at the Ol' Five and Dime" and the Vegas-style "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy," featuring J.C. Himself leading a chorus of showgirl angels! Reefer Madness is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary. It contains adult humor, religious parody, and drug use, as well as suggested violence and sexual explicitness. It therefore may be inappropriate for younger audiences.
As BLT turns 30, it is time to warn the kids about the danger of the evil reefer!
Buy tickets: Reefer Madness the Musical
Show dates and times:
September 24 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday - OPENING NIGHT OF THE SEASON! (Don't miss the party!)
September 25 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
September 26 at 2:00 p.m - Sunday - SEVEN DOLLAR SUNDAY
October 1 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday - FAMILY NIGHT - CHILD CARE AT JUNGLE GYM
October 2 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday - SOLD OUT!
October 3 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
October 8 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
October 9 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
October 10 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
October 15 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday (Late Night "Zombie")
October 16 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday (Late Night "Zombie")
October 17 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
October 22 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday (Late Night "Zombie")
October 23 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday - SOLD OUT! (Late Night "Zombie")
October 24 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
October 29 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday (Late Night "Zombie")
October 30 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday (Late Night "Zombie")
October 31 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday


"Zombie" by by Bill Connington adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates (late night terror!)

If this dramatic award winning West Coast Premiere does not scare you, you are already dead! A psychopath kidnaps children and tries unsuccessfully to turn them into zombies with an icepick.
ALL tickets just $10.00!!! The show runs approximately 1 hour.
Suitable for ages 16 and older due to violence and sexuality. NO ONE under 16 admitted without parent!
Buy tickets: Zombie
Show dates and time:
October 15 at 10:30 p.m. - Friday
October 16 at 10:30 p.m. - Saturday
October 22 at 10:300 p.m. - Friday
October 23 at 10:30 p.m. - Saturday
October 29 at 10:30 p.m. - Friday
October 30 at 10:30 p.m. - Saturday


Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis" by Charlotte Jones - A GREAT HOLIDAY COMEDY! - (November 26, 2010 thru December 19, 2010. Performances Fri. and Sat. at 8 pm and Sun. at 2 pm.)

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Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis - 2010

 

This soon to be Holiday classic is a West Coast premiere, and is directed by a nationally known director!
In Charlotte Jones' "Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis," a group of Bolton, England misfits find themselves and love at the Holidays. This quirky, original and heartwarming comedy features a 40-year-old dominatrix about to hang up her whips and handcuffs for good on January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany. Add her obsessive-compulsive maid, a singing "Chinese" Elvis, a drink called a "catastrophe," the arrival of a "dead" daughter, and more for a play whose characters attain redemption via a highly unorthodox route.
(Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis contains some adult language and suggestive content. The show is suitable for ages 13 and older.)
Buy tickets: Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis
Show dates and times:
November 26 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
November 27 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday - FREE reading of "A Christmas Story" at 2 p.m.
November 28 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - SEVEN DOLLAR SUNDAY - SOLD OUT!
December 3 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday - FAMILY NIGHT - CHILD CARE AT JUNGLE GYM
December 4 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday - FREE reading of "Women's Votes, Women's Voices" by Book-It Repertory Theatre at 2 p.m.
December 5 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
December 10 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
December 11 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday - FREE reading of "A Christmas Story" at 2 p.m.
December 12 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
December 17 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
December 18 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
December 19 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday


"The Clean House" by Sarah Ruhl (February 11, 2011 thru March 6, 2011. Performances Thurs., Fri. and Sat. at 8 pm and Sun. at 2 pm.)

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The Clean House" - photo by Mike Wilson

 

In Sarah Ruhl's play, Lane, a doctor who is too busy to clean her own house, hires Matilde, a feisty maid from Brazil who just happens to hate to clean and spends her time trying to make up the perfect joke. To cover for the maid, the doctor's neat-freak sister, Virginia, secretly takes over the housecleaning--and finds "foreign" underwear in the laundry. As Lane's marriage to her doctor husband, Charles, unravels, true love emerges and the perfect joke is found.

"The Clean House" contains some adult language and sexuality. The show is suitable for ages 13 and older.

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Show dates and times:
February 11 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
February 12 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
February 13 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - SEVEN DOLLAR SUNDAY
February 18 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday - FAMILY NIGHT - CHILD CARE AT JUNGLE GYM
February 19 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
February 20 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
February 25 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
February 26 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday
February 27 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday
March 4 at 8:00 p.m. - Friday
March 5 at 8:00 p.m. - Saturday


SPECIAL! - 2 p.m. eSe Teatro presents bilingual (Spanish/English) staged reading of "Passport." Tickets $5.00. Includes panel discussion on immigration! Buy Tickets here!
March 6 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday


The Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival (April 8, 2011 thru May 1, 2011. Performances

Thurs., Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. at 2 pm. - NOTE - New start time for evening performances! That's 7:30 pm!)
Buy tickets: Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival - 2011
Full length first-place: "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey
"Unfound Fossils" is a psychological drama about a serial killer. October 11, 2009, marked the 40th anniversary of an infamous San Francisco shooting death, which put the exclamation pointon the tumultuous summer of 1969. On that foggy October night in the '60s, two men in their underpants, post-coital, lounge in the bedroom of a Presidio Heights mansion, not far from the scene of the freshly committed murder. As the police search the nearby Presidio, one of these men will come to realize the other is a killer. In Act II, and elderly man named Bill shows up in the fall of 2005 at the Seattle office of a 40-something psychologist and former FBI profiler, Dr. Maureen Campbell. When Bill's revelations about the 1969 San Francisco shooting death threatens the "facts" in her soon-to-be released crime book, Dr. Campbell does her best to discredit Bill, leaving him no choice but to threaten her in other ways.
Full length second-place: "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam
An African-American governor, formerly a Democrat and now a Republican, is running for president against an ultra-conservative opponent. He is confronted with an impossible choice between saving a man on death row and his bid for the presidency.
One-act first-place: "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
"Bold Grace" follows the life and times of real life 17th-century Irish pirate, Grace O'Malley. Beginning with her first voyage with her father at the age of nine, Grace re-lives key points in her life until her death in 1603. Grace lived a full life, including pirating up and down the Irish coast, an army of 200 loyal fighting men, her own fleet of ships, two marriages, four children (on born while Grace was at sea), and even a documented face-to-face meeting with Queen Elizabeth I.
One-act second-place: "Two," by Susanne Bailie
In the future, suicide is a government-regulated institution. Jet Alveraz. at third-generation clone, confronts the callous reality his intellect assisted in creating. Goodness, Jet discovers, has little value in mankind's world of scientific advancement.
The readings:
"Action! Commercials! Subtext!" by Sean Walbeck
Jana Goodwill's mundane existence as an architectural historian is shattered when her neighbor, and possibly more, Port Commissioner Severt Longboardson bribes Jana's dog Snarky into stealing Jana' secret report. As Jana climbs the ladder of government policy to preserve historic waterfront buildings and protect herself from Severt's nefarious (but handsome) clutches, she is plagued by a duplicitous city drone, dead bodies, spotty research, a clingy box and the angry ghost of her revenge-hungry dog. That is until a training montage and vision quest from Obama make her the hero historian she needs to be, seaching for La Cuidad de Oro in Bellingham Bay. Comedy.
"The Fishbowl" by Katherine Luck
Under the watchful eye of the media, a criminal stunt at a fast-food joint by formerly famous has-beens goes violently awry.
Thank you to all who submitted scripts to the contest! The competition was fierce and only a few points from our panel of judges separated the scripts.
Buy tickets:: Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival - 2011
Show dates and times:
April 8 at 7:30 p.m. - Friday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie
April 9 at 7:30 p.m. - Saturday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie
ALSO at 2 p.m. Saturday a free staged reading of "Action! Commercials! Subtext!" by Sean Walbeck
April 10 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie
April 15 at 7:30 p.m. - Friday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie - FAMILY NIGHT - CHILD CARE AT JUNGLE GYM
April 16 at 7:30 p.m. - Saturday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie
ALSO at 2 p.m. Saturday a free staged reading of "Action! Commercials! Subtext!" by Sean Walbeck
April 17 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - "Super Tuesday," by Jesse Putnam / "Two," by Susanne Bailie
April 22 at 7:30 p.m. - Friday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
April 23 at 7:30 p.m. - Saturday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
ALSO at 2 p.m. Saturday a free staged reading of "The Fishbowl" by Katherine Luck
April 24 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
April 29 at 7:30 p.m. - Friday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
April 30 at 7:30 p.m. - Saturday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow
ALSO at 2 p.m. Saturday a free staged reading of "The Fishbowl" by Katherine Luck
May 1 at 2:00 p.m. - Sunday - "Unfound Fossils," by Christopher Bailey / "Bold Grace: The Voyages of the Pirate O'Malley," by Ashley Schalow

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