Opening Thursday! "Want" by Barbara Lindsay
Kathy Hsieh as Ruby and Ronnie Hill as Earl enjoy a quiet moment in scene 1 of “Want” by Barbara Lindsay. Photography by Kirk Hostetter.
The world premiere of Want by Barbara Lindsay opens August 4th and runs through August 14th at the Center Theatre in the Armory Building at the Seattle Center. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. 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
THE STORY
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.
THE TEAM
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); Jess K. Smith (intimacy direction); Morgan Grody (fight choreography); Lara Kratz (graphic design); Kirk Hostetter (photography); and Maycee McQuin (ASM).
“Want” is the first fully mounted in-person production by The Shattered Glass Project, which was founded in 2019.
THE COMPANY
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.
“Was there anything else?” l to r: Janelle (Jennifer Faulkner) looks past Earl (Ronnie Hill) at Ruby (Kathy Hsieh). “Photography by Kirk Hostetter.