Hearts Are Monsters
by Kelleen Conway Blanchard
Macha Monkey Productions holds its new play winter workshop this month, featuring three staged readings of Hearts are Monsters, a new work in progress by Seattle playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard.
Hearts Are Monsters features a 16-year-old girl with a misshapen head, her pretty twin sister (a former child star who now debauches), their drunk and lonely mother, a sexy boarder who plays guitar, and Daddy’s ghost. He seeks justice.
Macha Monkey will fully produce Hearts Are Monsters in the fall of 2010.
Blanchard is the author of Edith's Head and Small Town. She is a performer and playwright whose works have been produced in Seattle at the Annex Theatre (Edith's Head and Small Town), 14/48, On The Boards' 12 Minutes Max, The Mae West Fest, and as part of FringeACT.
Outside of Seattle, Blanchard’s works have been part of Eight Tens at Eight in Santa Cruz, the 2nd Annual Festival of New Short Plays in Belfast, Maine, and Perishable Theatre's Women's Playwriting Festival. She is a founding member of Seattle's Live Girls! Theatre.
The cast of Hearts are Monsters includes: Susanna Burney, Joe Feeney, Sophie Lowenstein, Becky Poole and James Weidman
Hearts Are Monsters features a 16-year-old girl with a misshapen head, her pretty twin sister (a former child star who now debauches), their drunk and lonely mother, a sexy boarder who plays guitar, and Daddy’s ghost. He seeks justice.
Macha Monkey will fully produce Hearts Are Monsters in the fall of 2010.
Blanchard is the author of Edith's Head and Small Town. She is a performer and playwright whose works have been produced in Seattle at the Annex Theatre (Edith's Head and Small Town), 14/48, On The Boards' 12 Minutes Max, The Mae West Fest, and as part of FringeACT.
Outside of Seattle, Blanchard’s works have been part of Eight Tens at Eight in Santa Cruz, the 2nd Annual Festival of New Short Plays in Belfast, Maine, and Perishable Theatre's Women's Playwriting Festival. She is a founding member of Seattle's Live Girls! Theatre.
The cast of Hearts are Monsters includes: Susanna Burney, Joe Feeney, Sophie Lowenstein, Becky Poole and James Weidman
