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Leavenworth, WA – Save the dates. Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, in
partnership with ACT - A Contemporary Theatre, announced the two new plays that will be presented in
August 2013 as part of its renowned The Icicle Creek Theatre Festival (ICTF)
program. This will be the first professional theater event to be presented by
the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts on the stage of the brand-new venue the
Snowy Owl Theater
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Since its inception in 2007 the
Icicle Creek Theatre Festival has played an innovative role in advancing the
American theater. Recognized by the Seattle press as a “prestigious incubator
of new plays,” the ICTF offers playwrights the opportunity to develop their new
work in collaboration with professional actors and directors.
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The Icicle Creek Center for the
Arts is dedicated to celebrating excellence in the lively arts and
inspiring generations of students, artists and audiences through exceptional
educational experiences, live performances, and special events - all in the
breathtaking, natural setting of the mountain meadows
Selected from this year’s
submissions are THE PRIVATE SECTOR by Cory Finley, and A PERFECT ROBOT by Sarah
Saltwick.
The playwrights will arrive in
Leavenworth on August 12 and begin a week of intensive workshops of their
plays, in collaboration with a company of professional actors and directors.
The workshop week will culminate in performances for the public on Sunday,
August 18, at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in.
In THE PRIVATE SECTOR, four new
hires at an elite hedge fund endure an increasingly strenuous wilderness
training retreat, fighting to assert their worth as human assets before a
strange and ruthless managing director. A fascinating new play which examines
the competing forces of sex, power, ethics, and ambition.
Cory Finley's work has been
produced and developed at Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theater, Theater for the
New City (with Less Than Rent), Prospect Theater Company, the Flea, and the
Brick. He is a member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater, and a graduate
of Yale University. His is work as a journalist has been featured in the
Arizona Republic and New Haven Advocate.
In A PERFECT ROBOT, playwright
Sarah Saltwick introduces the extraordinary "Mollybot," a female
robot who may well pass the Turing test for humanness; her creator has gone
missing, and there's only one chance left to convince investors of her worth - The
phrase “The Turing Test” is most properly used to refer to a proposal made by
Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think –
This is an up-to-the-minute examination of the
implications of robotics’ rapid advancement, which will soon take mankind into
completely uncharted territory.
Ms. Saltwick writes love stories
between people, places, and things. Her adaptation of The Scarlet Letter
premiered this year at the University of Texas; She Creatures was produced by
Nouveau 47 and will be produced shortly at Weber State University. Her fiction
has been published by Escape Into Life, and will soon be seen in Timber
Magazine.
Kurt Beattie, Artistic Director of
Seattle's ACT Theatre, will direct THE PRIVATE SECTOR. Anita Montgomery,
freelance director and Literary Manager/Director of Education at ACT Theatre,
will direct A PERFECT ROBOT.
Both plays will be presented on
Sunday, August 18th at Icicle Creek’s Snowy Owl Theater in Leavenworth. The
plays will be re-mounted on Tuesday, August 20 and Wednesday, August 22 at
Seattle’s ACT-A Contemporary Theatre. All play presentations will be followed
by talkback sessions between the audience and the playwrights.
WARNING! THE PRIVATE SECTOR
contains very adult language. A PERFECT ROBOT is appropriate for mature
audiences, 16 and older. Tickets: www.icicle.org, or 509- 548-6347 extension
41, or toll-free 877-265-6026 extension 41.
For further information, contact
Lilia Grundy at lgrundy@icicle.org or (509) 548-6347 extension 42.
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