Performance Critiques
Discomforting the Audience: Racial Satire in Artswest's An Octoroon
Steph Hankinson and the review team examine how Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon rides the line between critiquing melodrama and exploiting its emotional devices.
Intersections: A Celebration of Seattle Performance - Comedy, Representation, and Intersectionality!
The DeConstruct team interviews Intersections Festival curators Natasha Ransom, Kinzie Shaw, Jekeva Philips to discuss opportunities to showcase the diversity of the Seattle performance scene.
Seattle Repertory Theatre Re-tells the Black Experience in Two Trains Running
Anthony Reynolds and the review team highlight how Juliette Carrillo’s production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running emphasizes the diverse and positive history of the shared Black experience “without the influence of white perspective to heavily mask their stories.”
Queer Performance in Unsafe Spaces: The Nance Looks Back at New York Theater's Censorious Past
Liz Janssen and the review team provide much-needed additional historical context for ArtsWest's thought-provoking and well-performed production of The Nance.
Barbecue: An Exploration of Believability, Race, and Drug Abuse
Anthony Reynolds and the review team examine Intiman's Barbecue, an engrossing discussion of what is reality and how it is manufactured.
Orlando: Fluidity in Gender, Desire, and Time
Steph Hankinson and the review team recognize the passion and dedication of UW Drama's Orlando (adaptation by Sarah Ruhl) and how its thematic nuance of Virginia Woolf's classic on gender and desire.