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SPF#4 Presents: Frontier: Valley of The Shadow and Samson
About the shows:
Frontier: Valley of the Shadow by Ki Gottberg
In a whirl of immigrant family history past and future, Ki Gottberg swirls transformatively though all the characters in her own humorously intimate story about spiritual hunger, physical appetite and the quest for faith. One hour long.
Samson by Billie Wildrick
It ends with rubble. A great pile of destruction obscured by the unbreathable dust of collapse, moving like dry fog. It is over before the dust settles. We all know the end of Samson's story. But whose choices got him there? Why did the strongest man in the world lay his head in a woman's lap and allow her to begin the end of his life? Underscored by guitar and acoustic precussion, and illuminated by a melodic vocal through-line, Samson's is a story of longing to tear through the pages of a life already written with humanity both given and denied by a then-silent god.
About the Performers:
Ki Gottberg is a Seattle native. New City Theater, where Frontier: Valley of the Shadow (Seattle Times Footlight award) ran September-November 2009, has been her recurrent artistic home since 1983; her plays Hunger, Stript and Big Boss or the Inner Life of Everything all began life there, and she has appeared in numerous New City productions. Work staged in Seattle other places include The Compendium of Nastiness at The Womb Theater, her commissioned adaptation and direction of Ubu Roi at the Empty Space Theater and an operetta, Mirabelle, a Breeze, commissioned by the Seattle International ChildrenÂÂs Festival (Giant Magnet). She is a recipient of numerous awards and grants for playwriting including a $25,000. NEA/TCG Playwriting Fellowship with New City Theater. After a career in Seattle theater, Ki is now a professor at Seattle University in Fine Arts, where she teaches acting, playwriting, and directs student productions. She is a graduate of the U of W Professional Actor Training Program.
Billie Wildrick is a local singer/actor who has been described by the press as an engaging super, awesome, adorable, sassy, charming, luminous, terrific, wildly talented bright-eyed and beautiful, sultry siren, with a Crayola box of skills, warmth, charm, effervesence and natural, unforced talents who sparkles, shines, burns scenery to a crisp and couldnt be more appealing if she were a banana. Her voice has been described as lovely, bell-like, nightingale-caliber, crystal clear strong, stunning, sweet, melodious, commanding and magnificent full of vivacity. Billie was nominated for a Gregory Award for Best Actress in 2009 for her work in Sunday in the Park with George at The 5th Avenue Theatre and Ds Barbecu at ACT. She was named in The Seattle Times Footlight Awards for her performances in Wonderful Town at The 5th Avenue Theatre and Seussical! at Seattle Childrens Theatre. Billie has written and performed solo work that divorces and remarries music and theatre in places that no longer exist such as the Seattle Fringe Festival the Liberty Deli and Thumpers. She hopes SPF survives her efforts.
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LocationTheatre Off Jackson
409 7th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98104
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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