For immediate release
December 3, 2007
It’s election time: Let’s get ‘Crazy/Naked’
BURIEN – Politics takes center stage in Breeders Theater’s 13th production at E.B. Foote Winery (127-B S.W. 153rd Street, Burien), Crazy/Naked.
Direct Doug Knoop suggested the idea for the show earlier this year.
“After the holidays it’s going to be all about politics,” Knoop recalled recently. “I said something to this effect when TM and I were discussing the 2008 winter show earlier this year, imagining the onslaught of debates, campaign promises and endless television commercials that will bombard us before the big presidential election next November.”
It was a natural for Sell.
“Crazy/Naked is largely based on things I’ve seen people do and heard them say in more than 30 years of watching and writing about politics,” says playwright T.M. Sell.
“People don’t pay enough attention to politics, at all levels, and sometimes they make choices that at least invite questions,” says Sell, who teaches political science at Highline College.
Crazy/Naked follows BT’s successful summer 2007 show, Out of the Nest. The cast includes Yana Kesala, Eric Hartley, Luke Amundson, Kelly Johnson, J Howard Boyd, Teresa Widner, and Martin J. Mackenzie. Doug Knoop directs, with music by Nancy Warren.
Show dates are Jan. 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 30, 31, Feb. 1, 2 at 7 p.m.; Jan. 20 and 27 - 2 p.m., and Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. The Jan. 30 show is a benefit for the Highline College Foundation.
The show includes tasting of E.B. Foote’s award winning wines and hors d’oeurves, still for only $20. Tickets are available at the winery, 206-242-3852 and at Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Drive, Des Moines 206-824-9462.