Limited Perspective

T his is another in the Throwback Thursday series, in which I post pre-2018 reviews that first appeared on my Facebook page, before I started Limited Perspective. Today's entry was prompted by the recent announcement that Ghost Light Theatricals is wrapping up and is passing the torch (their space, The Ballard Underground) to Copious Love Productions .  In its final season, Ghost Light continued to incubate new works from local playwrights, including The Inappropriate Suitor , reviewed below, Kayfabe and The Grey Golem .  They will end their run with The Salem Witch Orgasms in 2019.   She is probably “riding black ponies through canyons of vice.”  This is the worry -- and accusation in absentia against a runaway student by the headmistress of a women’s boarding college in The Inappropriate Suitor , a new play by Ghostlight Theatricals running now at the Ballard Underground.  It’s a trip. Sometimes theater impacts you by presenting a familiar...

A wise man once said you can observe a lot just by watching. In my seat fifteen minutes before the show started, I looked at the set of Peter and the Starcatcher now playing at Driftwood in Edmonds. I observed the artistry and craft of it and thought it would be a good show. I was right. From the set to the costumes to the choreography to the music to the performances, all the way along to the sustained, recognizably British accents, everything was impressive. The show, based on the book Peter and the Starcatchers (plural) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and adapted by Rick Elice for the stage is the backstory to the Peter Pan story. We get to see how all the beloved characters (or in the case of Wendy, her mom) came to be. Some of the best bits of theater artistry involved the character, Molly. As a starcatcher-in-training, Molly can fly. At a crucial moment, she used her flying skill to save Peter. They accomplished this by having two actors lift the character while being...