2010-2011 Season
OleannaCast
Theater Artists Olympia
Performances: Summer, 2011
Director John Munn
Venue: Olympia Little Theater

Oleanna is a two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. This was later adopted to a movie with same name by Mamet.

September 30 – October 16, 2011

Directed by Peter Kappler
Musically Directed by Stephanie Claire
Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Black Box

James and Deborah Howe, authors
Jon Klein, playwright
Chris Jeffries, composer

Musical audition required.  2 or 3 females, 3 or 4 males playing 6 roles plus one rabbit puppet/puppeteer

It’s a dark and stormy night and Chester (the family cat) and Harold (the family dog) sit waiting for their owners to return home from the movies. When the Monroe’s finally get home, they come bearing a surprise: they’ve found a bunny in the movie theater. But this is no ordinary rabbit… this is the extraordinary Bunnicula. When the family’s fruits and vegetables start losing their juice in the night, Chester thinks he knows what’s causing the fantastic phenomenon. Bunnicula is a vampire! Or maybe Chester’s imagination is getting the better of him. Singing and dancing their way through this hilarious mystery you will meet the perfect pet combination for any family; a dancing cat, a howling dog, and a vampire bunny.

A Christmas Story - OFT

December 2 – 18, 2011

Directed by Jenny Greenlee
South Puget Sound Community College - Black Box

Comedy. By Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.
(For OAL’s: 4 adult actor; A male in his 20-40's (Adult Ralphie), A male in his 30-50's (Old Man), A female in her late 20's to 40's (Mother), A female in her 20's to 50's (Miss Shields), and 7 children’s roles; 4-5 boys and 2-3 girls of roughly the same age (somewhere between 8-15 years old) with one boy older and then Randy should be younger or look younger. 

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out." All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; and more. OFT “triple –dog dares you” to experience all the magical moments of A Christmas Story on stage this holiday season. 

The Phantom Tollbooth - OFT

February 3 – 19, 2012

Directed by Jen Ryle
Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Black Box

Our Youth Only! Production.
By Susan Nanus., Based on the book by Norton Juster.

Casting 20-30 actors, age 12-18, main characters Milo, his watch dog Tock and the Humbug, plus King Azaz and his Ministers, Princess Rhyme and Reason, the Spelling Bee, the Lethargarians and many more fun character roles.

In the lands beyond the Phantom Tollbooth, Milo befriends a Watchdog named Tock, and together they encounter a host of other strange and wonderful characters brought to life by OFT’s youth only cast and crew. Milo's adventures take him to the Land of Wisdom where he's forced to think about many new things. Milo learns of the argument between King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician whose disagreement over words and numbers has led to the banishment of Princesses Rhyme and Reason. Milo is dispatched to rescue the Princesses and the knowledge and skills he picks up on his journey help him to save the Princesses. When he must return home, Milo's sorry to leave his friends-- but enriched by his experience, he realizes his attitude towards learning will never be the same.

A Bucket of Blood - TAO

February 2012 - (Exact Dates TBD)

Directed By: Pug Bujeaud
Venue: TBD

"A Bucket of Blood" is a horror-comedy is based on a film by b-movie director Roger Corman (Little Shop of Horrors).  Walter Paisley a geeky busboy at a happening Beatnik café, wants to be one with the artistic types who hang there. The fates grant his wish in the form of the accidental killing of his landlady's cat, in a moment of pure inspiration Walter decides to encase kitty in a layer of plaster, creating a morbid sculpture. The sculpture "Dead Cat" is  hailed as an artistic triumph by the unwitting Bohemian art crowd.  Beset by numerous requests for similar "truthful" works Paisley is at a dead end until fate again intervenes in the form of an undercover cop who finds himself on the business end of a cast-iron skillet. Before long, Walter must seek out new subjects in order to both to keep his new found status, and (even more importantly to Walter) to impress Carla the love of his life.

Animal Farm - OFT

March 23 – April 8, 2012

Directed by Samantha Chandler
Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Black Box

Based on George Orwell’s novel, adapted by Ian Wooldridge.
(For OAL’s: 6 to 12 actors)

George Orwell's satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: "Some are more equal than others." The animals on a farm drive out their master and take over and run the farm for themselves. The experiment is successful, except that someone has to take the deposed farmer's place. Leadership devolves upon the pigs, which are cleverer than the rest of the animals. Unfortunately, their character is not equal to their intelligence. This dramatization remains faithful to the book's plot and intent and retains both its affection for the animals and the incisiveness of its message.

Most enjoyed by ages 10 and up
Produced with permission from Dramatic Publishing

Goodnight Moon

May 18 – June 3, 2012

Directed by Deane Shellman
Musically directed by Josh Anderson
Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Black Box

Adapted from the book by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd.
Book, music, and lyrics by Chad Henry.

4-6 singing actors, at least 2 women and 1 man, the rest TBD, would love actors with tap, or any dance talent, interested in the extra cool things they may be able to do: play an instrument of any kind at any expertise level, juggle, balance on one foot on a ball, etc.

Join Bunny for a bowl of mush in the Great Green Room as he bids goodnight to clocks, socks, mittens and kittens, and the cow jumping over the moon. Beloved by generations of readers and listeners, this musical delights in the poetry and music of everyone's favorite bedtime story.  Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

A Midsummers Night's Dream

Spring 2012- (Exact Dates TBD)

Directed By: Pug Bujeaud
Venue: TBD

Once again TAO is taking Shakespeare and shaking it by the throat.
They start with the question:  What would happen to a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream as realized by the inmates of an asylum?  
Then: Where do the Fae end up when there is no place else for them to live? 
Finally: What happens to the production when the two worlds collide?
Director pug Bujeaud is interested in throwing out the preconceived notions of this beloved comedy, and bringing it to that dark and funny place that TAO revels in.

Unknown Shakespeare

Summer 2012
Animal Fire Theater Productions - Will produce a Shakespearean Masterpiece. The productions has not been selected at this time. All performances are held outdoors in Priest Point Park, in the heart of Olympia.

Harlequin Productions
Information regarding Harlequin's season can be found here.