Island Theatre - Past Productions - Bainbridge Island, WA

Past Productions

Other Desert Cities 130316

YoHo Logo 130307 Other Desert Cities-Baitz

Island Theatre invites you to join us
for a potluck dinner and an open play reading of

Other Desert Cities byJon Robin Baitz

Saturday, March 16, 6:30

• For reservations, contact:

Robin Simons (206) 601-7179 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Island Theatre at Your House (or YoHo) is designed to bring theatre into your home (or your neighbor’s), creating a warm, friendly environment to share a meal and read a play with other Island Theatre fans. Bring your choice of a hot or cold dish, dessert or drinks for the meal (please find out from the host what’s needed) and Island Theatre will supply the play. Take on a character if you like, but there’s no pressure to perform if you prefer to watch and listen while others read as the play comes to life… in the living room.

Other Desert Cities: A once promising novelist returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner circle, her brother and her aunt. When Brooke announces she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family’s history, the holiday reunion is thrown into turmoil as the Wyeths struggle to come to terms with their past.

This funny and searing play is filled with clever exchanges among family members who know exactly how to push one another’s buttons.

2013 Play writing Workshop

Ten Minute Play Writing Workshop – February 17

Island Theatre presents "How to Write a 10-minute Play"

Sunday, February 17

1:00 to 5:00 PM
Bainbridge Public Library

Tuition is $20, payable at the workshop
Scholarships available.

The workshop is conducted by Seattle playwright and theatre teacher John Longenbaugh.
(Read about John Longenbaugh)

Please pre-register
(space is limited)

Register via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or by phone to 206/276-7732

For more information, visit www.islandtheatre.org or phone: 206/276-7732.

Americans Across the Street

The Americans Across the Street is “irreverent and funny - the political outrage of a verbal recluse” says playwright Carter Lewis— who, in the opening scene, identifies himself as a Pulitzer Prize winning author. There are “mushrooms and barbecuing, and a belligerent snappy teen” combined with “heartfelt loss and Chopin” concluding in love and redemption. Truly an enjoyable, enlightening, and verbally very witty play! We will be reading from the latest rewrite, sent directly from the playwright.

Carter Lewis is currently serving as Playwright-in-Residence at Washington University, St. Louis. Prior to that he was Literary Manager and Playwright-in-Residence for The Geva Theatre Center (NY). Carter was also co-founder and Resident Playwright for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, CA. He is the winner of several national playwriting awards and a two time nominee for the American Theatre Critics Award. His plays have been produced around the country from Ohio, Florida, New York, California and London. He has written over 18 plays. He worked with Harlequin Theatre in Olympia for their production this year. He lives in St. Louis with his dog, Bucket. (From Harlequin Theatre's program notes on Carter W. Lewis, Playwright.)

The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh

ISLAND THEATRE AT YOUR HOUSE
Share a potluck meal, take part in a play reading!
(you needn't perform if you simply want to share the fun)

September 15, 6:30 pm

RESERVATIONS: CONTACT Host Audrey Barbakoff - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Cripple of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh is the poignant and darkly funny story of a physically-challenged young man, the small town target of cruel jokes, who becomes starry-eyed when an American film crew comes to a rural outpost near his community to shoot a major motion picture. “Cripple Billy” leaves the town to find a better life through this golden “movie star” opportunity. Eventually he finds some respect and affection from among those who were the genesis of the ridicule. Lastly, in the hands of master dramatist Martin McDonagh, when Billy finds redemption among the townsfolk, a final twist of fate turns the tables again, in true mythic fashion. Pastoral and lyrical, cruel and savage, hilarious and heartwarming, this is McDonagh at his twisted, compassionate best.

THE WEIR by Conor McPherson

Island Theatre at the Library
October 27 + 28
THE WEIR by Conor McPherson

7:30 at Bainbridge Island Library
1270 Madison Avenue North Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Directed by Kate Carruthers

CAST:

Brendan: Tony Gasbarri
Jack: Jim Anderson
Finbar: John Ellis
Jim: Ken Enright
Valerie: Ann Wilkinson Ellis

A group of locals gather at a small village pub in Western Ireland to enjoy a pint, shots and fags. Then a mysterious newcomer to the area, Valerie appears with cocksure businessman Finbar who is showing her the area and introducing the locals. As the wind moans outside , a cozy fire and an excess of liquor warm the room and its occupants. Gradually, the usual jokes and banter among friends gives way to personal stories of faeries, hauntings, the paranormal and tragedy.

If a story is told well enough, you'll follow it anywhere, even when it's leading you to places you never intended to go. Take the plain-spoken, utterly alluring tales unfolded by the denizens of the rural Irish bar in ''The Weir,'' Conor McPherson's beautiful and devious new play at the Walter Kerr Theater. At first, they seem to beckon like comfortingly well-worn paths into realms of folklore both exotic and familiar, Gaelic variations on the sorts of campfire ghost stories you recall from childhood.

Then a moment arrives, and it's hard to say exactly when because you've shed all sense of time, when you realize that you have strayed into territory that scrapes the soul. Suddenly, the subject isn't just things that go bump in the night, but the loss and loneliness that eventually haunt every life. There's a new chill abroad, evoking something more serious than goose flesh, but there is also the thrilling warmth that accompanies the flash of insight.

—Ben Brantly The New York Times , August 2, 1999

Conor McPherson is one of Irelands most produced playwrights. Other plays by McPherson include The Good Thief, Port Authority and The Seafarer. The Weir won the Critic Circle Award, The Evening Standard Award, and the Lawrence Olivier BBC Award as the Best New Play in 1999.

*WEIR ( meaning) : a boundary on a river that can function as a sort of dam. The weir can affect the flow of water, prevent flooding, and allow the flow of water to be regulated. The weir is a sort of crossroads that stands between two worlds and can alter the course of nature.

Ten Minute Play Festival 2012 Cast & Crew

Island Theatre 2012

TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

Play Titles and Casts

Saturday, August 18

“Guess What”

by Paul Lewis

Directed by Rozzella Kolbegger

Cast: Bronsyn Foster, Gabe Carbajal, Bob Tull ,Barbara Deering

“Hidden Lives”

by George Shannon

Directed by Pat Scott

Cast: Larry Blain, Diane Walker, Tia Bannister

“I See France”

by Wendy Wallace

Directed by Brian Danzig

Cast: D’Arcy Clements, Ruth Urbach, Marybeth Redmond, Bronsyn Foster, Don Peterson, Diane Peterson

“Spark Story”

by Christine Castigliano

Directed by Kate Carruthers

Cast: Barbara Deering, Guy Sidora

“Country Song”

by Karen Polinsky

Directed by Steve Stolee

Cast: Keiko Green, Emily Kight, Carter Kight, Ryan O’Donnell

“Waiting”

by Jeff Fraga

Directed by Rozzella Kolbegger

Cast: George Shannon, Gabe Carbajal, Bronsyn Springer

“Free Refills”

by Jim Anderson

Directed by Brian Danzig

Cast: Brian Danzig, Bob Tull, D’Arcy Clements, Bronsyn Foster

Sunday, August 19

“In My Girlish Days”

by Sara Scribner

Directed by Steve Stolee

Cast: Emily Kight, Maddy Figueroa, Noel Barbuto

“After the Summer Solstice”

by Ulla Solberg

Directed by Pat Scott

Larry Blain

Cast: Tia Bannister

“There’s a Goblin in my Kitchen”

by Megan Gleason

Directed by Sara Scribner

Cast: Silas Gibbins, Sophia Parkhurst, George Shannon

“The Party Planner”

by Carolyn Cox Smith

Directed by Steve Stolee

Cast: Tracy Dickerson, Maddy Figueroa

“Carry On”

by Steven Fogell

Directed by Brian Danzig

Cast: Diane Peterson, Don Peterson, D’Arcy Clements

“Granville Market”

by Steve Palay

Directed by Sara Scribner

Cast: Fred Nicholson, George Shannon, Tracy Dickerson

“That Undiscovered Country”

by Connie Bennett

Directed by Kate Carruthers

Cast: Hayden Longmire, Guy Sidora

CREW
Jordan Sell - Lighting & Sound
Maddy Figueroa - Stage Assistant

How to Write a 10-minute Play

FREE Short Play Workshop - March 24

Island Theatre presents How to Write a 10-minute Play, on Saturday, March 24, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Bainbridge Public Library, taught by Seattle playwright and teacher John Longenbaugh. FREE with pre-registration via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " style="color: rgb(142, 0, 0); "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by phone to 206/276-7732.