The Shattered Glass Project presents “Want” by Barbara Lindsay
The world premiere of a stirring play about the impact that poverty and jealousy can have on love.
The Shattered Glass Project presents “Want” at the Center Theatre @ Seattle Center, July 28-August 14, 2022
The Shattered Glass Project (TSGP) presents the world premiere of Want, an emotionally fraught play about the impact that poverty and jealousy can have on love, written by Barbara Lindsay and directed by Maureen Hawkins.
Middle-aged couple Ruby and Early are happy in their new marriage (for starters, the sex is amazing!) It’s the great recession of 2008. They are struggling with unemployment and numbingly dull manual labor, but they have each other and they’ve just moved into a new apartment. Then the next-door neighbor Janelle pays them a call…
Content Warning: This show is recommended for ages 16 & up and includes adult language, explicit sexual imagery, depictions of violence and use of a knife.
Led by two Seattle theatre veterans, director Maureen Hawkins and playwright Barbara Lindsay, Want has evolved with TSGP from its initial online performance as “Familiar Kill” in January 2021. The cast includes Kathy Hsieh as Ruby; Ronnie Hill as Earl; and Jennifer Faulkner as Janelle. Other creative team members include Bella Rivera (scenic design); Carolina Johnson (lighting design); Alison Kozar (sound design and stage management); Eliane Rodriguez (costume design); Britta Baer-Simon (property design and ASM); Jess K. Smith (intimacy direction); Morgan Grody (fight choreography); Lara Kratz (graphic design); and Kirk Hostetter (photography).
Want opens July 28th and runs through August 14th at the Center Theatre in the Armory Building at the Seattle Center. Tickets are available on a sliding scale Pick Your Price model, with tiered pricing ranging from $10-$50. A limited number of barrier-free community access tickets at $0 are available for every performance. Tickets are available at https://www.shatteredglassproject.org/want
“Want” is the first fully mounted indoor production by The Shattered Glass Project, which was founded in 2019.
TSGP is a theatre company with a mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex by offering unique opportunities to create and to grow professionally. Programming includes an online developmental reading series bringing emerging directors together with new scripts; and the Director and Playwright Incubator/Mentor Program, a professional development program building community and relationships between gender-marginalized theatre artists. Company history and details are available at www.shatteredglassproject.org.
More information, including promotional photos and details about our cast and creative team, can be found in our press room: www.shatteredglassproject.org/want-press.
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Earl makes Ruby laugh (l to r, Kathy Hsieh as Ruby, Ronnie Hill as Earl.) Photography by Kirk Hostetter