Feb. 9th - Mar. 3rd, 2007
by Award-Winning New York Playwright Sheila Callaghan
Photography by Bethany Antikajian
Macha Monkey Productions and Theatre Off Jackson proudly presented the Northwest premiere of We Are Not These Hands, a work by Sheila Callaghan (Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Dead City, Lascivious Something, and Kate Crackernuts).
We Are Not These Hands CLOSED March 3rd! Thank you for the great run!!!
"Orphan argot
well-executed by Macha Monkey...innovative twists...daring ideas...passages of dialogue as stunning as they are hilarious" - Seattle Weekly.
Set in an unknown developing nation, We Are Not These Hands is a cautionary tale of love, power and global economics. Ever since their school was blown up, teenagers Moth and Belly have spent most of their days on the streets, their grim world colored only by the glow of computer screens through the windows of the internet café. That is, until a wandering researcher from a wealthy neighboring country comes to town. Uninterested in merely providing a chapter in his book, they try to convince him to take them back across the river to a life they have only glimpsed in the bits and bytes of the virtual world.
The genesis of We Are Not These Hands came to Ms. Callaghan during a trip to China, where in poor villages along the Yangtze, she noted illicit cyber-cafes hidden down side alleys. In news stories at home, she read of the death of 41 students, blown up while assembling firecrackers in their eastern China school, and of 24 people dying in Beijing when two teenagers set fire to an unlicensed cyber-cafe from which they'd been 86ed.
We Are Not These Hands is directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield (Patty Red Pants at LiveGirls Theatre) and features Amy Conant (Whacked and Scab at LiveGirls Theatre) as Moth, Mark Fullerton (One World Theatre company member) as Leather and Tinka Jonakova (The Von Foxies, Equus directed by Dan Savage) as Belly.
What: We Are Not These hands
Who: Written by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Joy Brooke Fairfield
When: Preview Performance Thursday February 8th, 8 PM
Opening Night Friday February 9th, 8 PM
Running Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm, February 9th –March 3rd
Where: Theatre Off Jackson, 409 7th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104, www.theatreoffjackson.org....There will be no late seating.
How: (206) 860-2970x1 for ticket reservations
Cost: Tickets $15 for general, $12 for students and seniors (discounted tickets are only available at the door).
For information and reservations, CALL MACHA MONKEY @ (206) 860-2970x1.
To purchase tickets now visit Brown Paper Tickets Website
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