Kid Simple:
A Radio Play in the Flesh
by Jordan Harrison
directed by Kristina Sutherland
February 6 – February 28, 2009
Opening night tickets: $25
All other performances: $15 general, $12 students & seniors
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Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. A quirky fable of innocence and experience, featuring live sound effects, mutinous onomatopoeia, and a host of woodsy temptations.
"Jordan Harrison has written a rangy, complex and intellectually titillating play infused with the sheer joy of creation." – Dominic Papatola, The St. Paul Pioneer Press
Opening night Friday, February 6, 2009 at Theatre Off Jackson (
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Shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings February 5 through February 28, 2009.
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets.
Reservations may be made by phone at Theatre Off Jackson.
For more information e-mail the monkeys at info@machamonkey.org.
Jordan Harrison is a Seattle native. His plays, which include Kid-Simple, The Museum Play, and Finn in the Underworld, have been produced and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sledgehammer Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Empty Space Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Polybe+Seats, and the first Summer Play Festival at Theatre Row. Kid-Simple premiered in the 2004 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Harrison is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights' Center, the 2003 Heideman Award, a 2001-2002 Lucille Lortel Fellowship, and residencies with the Djerassi Program and Commonweal Theatre Company. A graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. Playwriting program, Mr. Harrison is a member of New Dramatists.
Kristina SutherlandKristina is the co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Macha Monkey. Her recent directing credits include the critically acclaimed production of Fall Off Night by Allison Gregory, The Cowgirl Play by Sutherland and Prewitt, Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl, GameGirl by Jennifer Pratt, and Dukthul by Red Eagle Soaring. Kristina has co-created three plays with Desiree Prewitt: The Cowgirl Play, R (The Swashbuckling Tale of Anne Bonny and Mary Read) and Live Girls Do Elektra. Macha Monkey has produced these works in Seattle, across Canada and in Albuquerque's Revolutions Festival. Macha Monkey produced her latest solo creation, Franklin and Figaro, in October 2007. In June of 2009, Kristina will direct a production of Franklin and Figaro at The Whidbey Island Center of the Arts.