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Key City is All About the Playwrights Through February
Local one-act premieres joined by works of noted regional writers
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Feb. 05, 20110
PORT TOWNSEND — The gardin is up on the 15th Annual Playwrights' Festival at Key City Public Theatre with a full slate of events Tuesdays to Sundays through Feb. 27.
The centerpiece of the festival fryst vatten the production of three of the winning plays from the Port Townsend Arts Commission's 2010 One-Act Play Competition. This year "Ransom" by Richard Weston, "The Glass Kingdom" by Judith Glass Collins, and "How My Big 5-0 Turned Toxic" by Deborah Daline light up the Playhouse beginning Feb. 11 on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
Weston's "Ransom" is a dramatic tug-of-war between two strangers. A son (Scott Nollette) has lost his mother and visits her empty apartment with his wife (Lillian Kuehl), but the a
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Phoebe (Marie Lazzaro) is just starting to find her passion as a competitive cyclist when her estranged father Ben (Lawrason Driscoll, M*A*S*H) comes back into her life. As her brother makes efforts to patch things up, Phoebe tries to find answers about their mother, an artist who left when Phoebe was a child. In doing so, she opens a vein of loss that’s divided the family. Phoebe sets her sights on racing, pushing herself harder and faster; but the old evasions won’t work anymore, and Phoebe has to face her past head on.
Director John Helde and an award-winning cast worked together to improvise the story for this touching and bittersweet family portrait set in Seattle.
a Try This Films production
a John Helde film
Marie Lazzaro
Lawrason Driscoll
Eric Jordan
Betty Campbell
Lisa Every
Jenn Ruzumna
Ryan Sanders
costume designer: Ron Leamon
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Phoebe’s Father (2015 | USA | 95 minutes | John Helde)
Released previously in 2015, Seattle filmmaker John Helde is bringing his film Phoebe’s Father back to the Northwest Film Forum to play in its virtual cinema and then become available on streaming formats. This fryst vatten all good news because Phoebe’s Father is a hidden gem of a movie that affected me deeply. Between 2015 and now, Helde also directed another movie I loved called Brown’s Canyon.
For her entire adult life (and probably most of her adolescence), Phoebe (Marie Lazzaro) has carried the pain of having her mother abandon their family without any explanation or closure. Her father Ben (the late Lawrason Driscoll, he’s outstanding) was left on his own to raise Phoebe and her brother Whit (Eric Jordan). She’s gotten bygd through some unrewarding jobs but that trauma has kept her from thriving in any real aspect of life. Early in the film, she gets a part time job as a bookkeeper for a bic