<p>Please join us for a special post-show Q&A with director Kristie Post Wallace, lighting designer Joshua Legate, and actors Joellen Sweeney and Jarron A. Williams.<strong> Sunday April 11, 2021 at 7:30 PM PDT </strong>after the closing night performance. <a href="https://www.uwdramalabs.com/accidental-death-of-an-anarchist-qa-rsvp"><… RSVP here</strong></a>.</p>

<p>Kirsty Johnston, a disability performance scholar from the University of British Columbia, will offer a talk entitled “<em>Creeps</em> and the Critics: disability theatre’s challenges for journalism.” Recently produced in both Seattle (2014) and Vancouver (2016), David Freeman’s 1971 New York Drama Desk award winning play <em>Creeps </em>has posed significant critical challenges for both artists and critics.

<div><strong>Once upon a time, there was a group of people who longed to be happy. </strong></div><p><strong>The people spent their days inside a giant room filled with shelves and boxes. </strong></p>

<p><strong>Desire doesn't follow rules.</strong></p><div>For most of Sorrel’s high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn’t even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a “hot dork”. <strong>Bunny</strong> spans twenty years of Sorrel’s life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality.

<div><strong>I am the incoming tide which spares no life - and certainly no man's! </strong></div><div><strong>So pull it together and let's go...</strong></div><div> </div><div>At “God’s” command, “Death” summons “Everybody” to go on the long and difficult journey to give a presentation to “God” on Everybody’s life and why they have lived it the way that they have. Everybody wants to bring along a friend, and Death says it’s fine <em>if</em> Everybody can find someone to volunteer.

<div><strong>But today, sitting in the street with those protesters - even when I got shoved around - I felt alive. I felt strong. Like I could tear my way out of this nightmare we see every night on the news. War. Pandemics. Food insecurity. The energy crisis. The collapse of healthcare. Strikes. And on top of that, a government that's either completely clueless or completely corrupt... and that's just the stuff we know is real. Who the hell knows anymore, in this era of spin and lies?

<div><strong>"Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty of thirty-five? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?"</strong></div><p> </p><div>In this new translation of Chekhov’s ”serious comedy of human contradictions”, a group of artists and dreamers meet in the countryside and wrestle with the costs of ambition, unspoken longings, and the harsh realities of artistic pursuits.

<p><i>Theatre History and Performance Studies at the School of Drama at the University of Washington -- with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, The School of Art + Art History + Design, and the Department of Dance -- present:</i></p>

<p><em><strong><span class="TrackedChange SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0">The Winter's Tale</span></span></span></strong></em><span class="TrackedChange SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0

<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW80454149 BCX0" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0">THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE</span></span></em></strong><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0"> is a parable inspir