http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/21/the_adding_machine_is_the_best Comments On: <i>The Adding Machine</i> Is the Best Thing I've Seen on a Seattle Stage in Years by Christopher Frizzelle en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I do want to give kudos to New Century for choosing this script for their first production because that is half the work of a theatre company - choosing quality, well-written scripts to produce. If you have a strong, powerful script, everything else flows from that. It would have been so easy for a new company to choose something by some hot new playwright, or a new show from Broadway or something far more "commercial" or "sexy." So to choose something that on the surface (for anyone who doesn't know the play) might not be an easy sell took a lot of courage. I am so glad to see that quality trumps easy.
Posted by kh]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:51:33 -0800 The Stranger
indelible. i've gone to hundreds of plays across three continents. only a handful glow in the sky of my memory. that production, so many years ago to this day, still reverberates. prospectors crouch for days in streams panning for gold. luck and grit lead to nuggets. i prospect in theatre the same way.

i bought 4 tickets to this production. three young friends of mine have no idea what i'm getting them into.

25 dollars? that's less than movie tickets for two and a tub o' corn. i would say, with this new production, you could collect an ingot that you'll cherish for the rest of your life.

Posted by cineaste]]> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:38:05 -0800 The Stranger Then comes a bristling, angry, racist, hysterical monologue of despair from Stetler

Just to underscore this, I saw the play last night and the interracial couple in front of me got up and left at this point. Now, I know that the point of having this speech in the play is not to endorse this kind of thinking, but it doesn't come across quite as condemnation either-- and when the protagonist is graphically describing a lynching in overly-sympathetic terms, I can't really blame this couple for thinking that they're probably not going to be able to empathize with this character for the rest of the show. By all means go for the edgy material, but know what you're getting in to.
Posted by Jrd]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:58 -0800 The Stranger
Amy Thone is God, and wicked fun to have a conversation with.
Posted by michael strangeways]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:25:37 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Mr. Poe]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:02 -0800 The Stranger Shows like this are why you live in a city.

Orly.
Posted by Mr. Poe]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:40:39 -0800 The Stranger
Anyways, sounds like a great show -- too bad I'm not in Seattle to see it.
Posted by Julie in Chicago]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:29:12 -0800 The Stranger