Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets

Presented by Seattle Theatre Works

February 13th - 15th
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 2:00 pm

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Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets returns for a special Valentine’s Weekend edition at West of Lenin in Fremont as the World’s Greatest Literary Boxing Match of the Year takes on literally the most fearsome tropic to face mankind – Love and Sex. Presented by Seattle Theatre Works, formerly the Seattle Playwrights’ Collective, this knock-‘em, sock ‘em literary challenge plays February 13 – 15 at West of Lenin with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. Like a boxing match, playwrights and poets are paired off, given a prompt to write toward, and then the acting company performs the plays and poems produced in a series of seven rounds with the audience voting on who wins each round – playwright or poet.

At the end of the weekend, the winning team of writers each wins a bottle of Two-Buck-Chuck while each member of the losing team wins a can of warm Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. So there are no losers in Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets! Everybody is a winner! We have also expanded the process to include the work of local visual artists as writing prompts, which we then project during the performance, making the whole event a truly collaborative experience between local artists of wildly divergent disciplines.

Playwrights - Jose Amador, Jessica Andrewartha, Heidi Heimarck, Joshua Jon, Scotto Moore, JC Pankratz, and Daniel Tarker

Poets – Daemond Arrindell, Alex Bleecker, Kris Hall, Chelsea Kurnick, Triston McAvoy, Amber Nelson, and Imani Sims

Actors - Michael Blackwood. Patty Bonnell, Terry Boyd, Gretchen Douma, Brent Griffith, D’Arcy Harrison, David Hsieh, Fox Rain Matthews, Skye Stephenson, Christine Shaw White,Lyam White, Chip Wood, and Mahria Zook

Visual Artists - Laura Antone, MO Anoun, Paul Bestock, Kymberlee della Luce, Colleen Gnos, Kate Vrijmoet, and Omar Wiley

Directors - Ellen Graham, Katie Haster, Jen Moon and Daniel Tarker

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