When love is like a flame, what could put it out?: The Shattered Glass Project presents "Want" July 28-August 14, 2022

Want

May 2

Two miniature doors stand next to each other: one door is a shabby brown and the other door is freshly painted bright yellow with a red wreath of dried flowers on it.

For Immediate Release

5/2/2022 – Seattle, WA

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, a provocative and emotionally fraught play about the impact that poverty and jealousy can have on love, written by Barbara Lindsay and directed by Maureen Hawkins.

When love is like a flame, what could put it out?:

In Want, which is set during the Great Recession of 2008, middle-aged couple Ruby and Early are happy in their new marriage. (For starters, the sex is amazing!) 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 in 2021 under the title of Familiar Kill. 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 Kate Drummond (intimacy direction).

Want opens July 28th and runs Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. 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

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.

About The Shattered Glass Project

Want is the first fully mounted indoor production by The Shattered Glass Project. TSGP will also produce TBD (To Be Devised): A Celebration, created by Sophe Friedman and Darby Sherwood, at Dr. Blanche Lavizzo Park on June 24-25, 2022; and Privileged, written by Alma Davenport and directed by Sandra L. Holloway, at West of Lenin, November 9-20, 2022. Season information available at https://www.shatteredglassproject.org/2022-season-1

TSGP is a theatre company founded in 2019 with a mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized because 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.

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